Great Day today with the Children and Grandchildren.

After Church, we had a Sunday Dinner that consisted of

Roast Beef and gravy, fresh Whipped Pototoes, corn, Butterbeans, garden peas, rolls, fresh turnips and onions, fresh baked blue berry cobbler and sweet ice tea.

Then out into the yard to watch the childern climb trees and stack wood for this winter.

Great day to say the least.

Ginger of Southport

Open Houses do not work here...they feed the hungry Realtors.

But it does please the sellers to think that we are bringing in folks..

Believe it or not.  I have had a very busy spring and summer.  There is so much more activity in the Southport~Oak Island area of Brunswick County North Carolina.  We had such a disasterous year in 2009 and 2010..that it could not get any worse.

I do hope that you are having the same results now also.  It is harder but at least if you keep working it will come..

Take care,

Ginger

June 9, 2011

Well, the other day I was trying to figure out why I had so much time on my hands and realized that I have not been on Active Rain for a while.  I do not know that I have much to share, but wanted to get back into the swing of thing.

Business is really picking up and I am doing right much volume right now.

Hope that it is good for you too.

Take care,

Ginger Harper of Southport, North Carolina

BUY AMERICAN MADE PRODUCTS!

Subject: How to Read Bar Codes on Food . . .
  
This is very interesting & good to know as a safeguard.
  
  
ALWAYS READ THE LABELS ON THE FOODS YOU BUY--NO MATTER WHAT THE 
FRONT OF THE BOX OR PACKAGE SAYS, TURN IT OVER AND READ THE 
BACK---CAREFULLY!

 With all the food and pet products now coming from China , it is 
best to make sure you read labels at the grocery store and 
especially Walmart when buying food products.
 Many products no longer show where they were made, only give where 
the distributor is located. It is important to read the bar code to 
track it's origin.
 How to read Bar Codes .... Interesting!
 This will be useful to know when grocery shopping.

 GREAT WAY TO BUY USA & CANADA AND NOT FROM CHINA!!

          
The whole world is afraid of China-made "Black-hearted goods".

 Can you differentiate which one is made in Taiwan or China?

 If the first 3 digits of the barcode are 690, 691  or 692, the 
product is MADE IN  CHINA.   471 is Made in  Taiwan.
   
This is our right to know, but the government and related 
departments never educate the public; therefore, we have to RESCUE 
ourselves.

 Nowadays, Chinese businessmen know that consumers do not prefer 
products "Made in China", so they don't show from which country it is made.

However, you may now refer to the barcode.  Remember, if the first 
3 digits are:

690-692 . .. . Then it is MADE IN CHINA

 00 - 09 . .. . USA or CANADA

 30 - 37 . .. . FRANCE
 40 - 44 . .. . GERMANY
 471 . . . Taiwan
 49 . .. . JAPAN
 50 . .. . UK

 BUY USA & CANADIAN MADE by watching for "0" at the beginning of the number.
 
We need every boost we can get for our economy, as well as 
possibly not getting some things we don't want to get from them.

Have you ever heard of a condo association foreclosing on a condo and then buying it with dues of the owners?

We are having something like that going on here and I do not know who to go to for help.  I can't help but think that this is wrong.  Have rules changed....if they have, I feel that human decency has eluded us.

I have great concern for the folks that lost their unit even though they were trying to work out a payment schedule with the association.

Ginger

Condo Associations

Have you ever heard of a condo association foreclosing on a condo and then buying it with dues of the owners?

We are having something like that going on here and I do not know who to go to for help.  I can't help but think that this is wrong.  Have rules changed....if they have, I feel that human decency has eluded us.

I have great concern for the folks that lost their unit even though they were trying to work out a payment schedule with the association.

Ginger