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2015 

While heading to the clubhouse earlier this week, the sun was beckoning me, saying, "Look at my soft splendor!" And those scraggly winter-bitten trees, yellow-green moss and a lonely paddleboat tipped over underneath seemed to be so much more welcoming.  An early spring?
01/31/2015
Ed Silva has had many lives. Both ALIVE and DEAD. Seriously! This guy offers you up a whole plate of complexity. Little did I know what we would delve into with our ringin' and singin' mutual conversation because of Debbie Reynolds' contest.  At the tender age of 33-34 years, he found out that he...
01/31/2015
Welcome to the ongoing weekly series called Tuesday Travelogue. We are in our thirtieth week! Each week, some ActiveRain bloggers are spotlighted to take us somewhere we may not have been on some kind of virtual travel (and it doesn't cost a dime!). Here is the purpose:   " to enjoy the ride" "ta...
01/27/2015
Fishhawk Lake-Gardening Tips-Deer Resistant Plants (Photo courtesy of Kenny Bowles) In some of our regions across the country, gardening is starting to surface in our minds. What to plant for the spring season?  When I first decided to create a water feature at the first home we bought at Fishhaw...
01/27/2015
Looking back through old winter photos of mine, I came upon this taken right up on Fishhawk Road, an old barn and pasture that I pass every time I come home. This particular day in December of 2007 presented some colors in the clouds that I don't often see and I stopped and shot them with my old ...
01/24/2015
Fishhawk Lake Real Estate-One of the Greatest Gifts Our Clients Give Us Their Stories Whether it is a woman who has lost her husband of 46 years and needs to move or a newly wedded couple embarking on buying their first home, what our clients do is allow us into their LIVES. Sometimes they share ...
01/24/2015
Thank you, Debbie Reynolds for this truly magnificent contest; Ringing and Singing in the Rain!  My first "Call A Friend"....my galpal, Kathy Streib! I love this woman! We covered so much in about an hour or so (I actually didn’t pay attention to the time—too much interesting conversation)! We di...
01/23/2015
Fishhawk Lake Real Estate-"Home" Schooling Our Buyers! While walking my dogs late this afternoon, I got to thinking about this...it's really very similar to schooling them... (Photo by: Trish "School of Hard Knocks") These are some of the "home classes"  that we teach our buyers during the home b...
01/20/2015
Welcome to the ongoing weekly series called Tuesday Travelogue. We are in our twenty-ninth week! Each week, some ActiveRain bloggers are spotlighted to take us somewhere we may not have been on some kind of virtual travel (and it doesn't cost a dime!). Here is the purpose:   " to enjoy the ride" ...
01/20/2015
There seems to be an unspoken common theme going on in our ActiveRain world....one word as a credo for what the main goals are for us in 2015. Ron and Alexandra Seigel have pronounced theirs as VITALITY. Many of their January posts have been generated by that one word and how it is applying itsel...
01/18/2015