Cabin Fever in Minneapolis--It's Here! - 02/18/10 05:38 PM
 
 
Cabin fever.  Outside of Minneapolis do you get cabin fever? That is what you get when you get itchy as winter goes on and on.  I mean itchy as your skin is falling off and you really scratch.  You also have a mental condition in which you are scratching your brain trying to figure out what grass looks like.
I know a solution.  Minneapolis February 24-28th has a home and garden show.  It is held at the Minneapolis Convention Center.  For years my husband and I have escaped to this show.  It is large.  I mean you walk your … (0 comments)

No More Seed Catalogs, Please - 02/15/10 07:34 PM
 
 
As I go to get the mail, I find more and more seed catalogs in the mail box.  Not fair for those of us living in Minneapolis.  It is going to be a long time before we can start our seeds indoors.  It does give one pause to look through the pages.  I was looking at Park Seed this afternoon, and I longed for my snow banks to be melted away.  It goes down to below zero at night, but during the day with strong sun rays we are reaching 30 degrees.  I spoke last week to a client … (0 comments)

Valentine's Day in Minneapolis - 02/12/10 12:49 PM
lentine's Day is fast approaching.  In school rooms today small valentines and candies are being passed.  When I was a kid this was a really big day.  The party was fun, we all wore red or pink, the frosted heart cookies tasted good, and you cringed when you got a valentine from a classmate of the opposite sex.  Not sure if those kinds of parties are still welcomed in schools today.  I do know women die for this day.  If they don't have someone special in their lives, they hide and if they have a sweetie, they put high demands on … (0 comments)

STYLISH FUN IN AN OLD NEIGHBORHOOD - 02/11/10 04:59 PM
Buyers will drive with me through the neighborhoods of SW Minneapolis that were built in the late 1940's and 1950'S.  They will tell me they look old and too small.  Look again my friends, you need to get in them and be impressed.

I just brought on a new listing in the Armatage neighborhood and it is fun and stylish.  the owners took the post WWII expansion and made it the first choice house for young buyers today.  The first floor was opened up and gutted.  Now there is a great room that opens to the dining room and then … (1 comments)

Dinner Theater in Minneapolis - 02/10/10 05:52 PM
 
 
Dinner Theaters can get lost in the world of so so food and so so productions.  In many communities I think they have gone the way of drive-in theaters.  In Minneapolis we have a dinner theater that goes back a long ways.  It was one of the venues were I got my taste of love of theater.  It is a good training ground for someone to learn live story telling but not at the expense of Shakespeare.
Our Chanhassen Theater is doing a run of "Footloose."  I went to the play being dragged.  It sounded like a musical that … (0 comments)

Twitter Bowl tweets in Minneapolis - 02/09/10 03:59 PM
 
 
Minneapolis ad agency Colle+Mcvoy measured the chatter about Sunday's Super Bowl ads and report the Frito-Lay Ads had more tweets than all others including Budweiser.
Can you guess the Frito-Lay ad that brought the buzz?  It was the one in which the small boy tells the new boyfriend of his mother's to "keep your hands off my momma and keep your hands off my Doritos."
Mike Caguin, creative director of Colle+McVoy, says the reason he thinks that ad was such a hit was that it was part of the do-it- yourself ad contest.  I don't think it was just … (0 comments)

Did Minneapolis people Watch the Super Bowl? - 02/08/10 06:08 PM
 
 
Did we living in Minneapolis watch the Super Bowl yesterday? Yes, we did.  We did for several reasons.  I
* It is a national event so you must watch it.
*You needed to see the ads to you could discuss them at the office.
*We wanted to see New Orleans get creamed.
*If New Orleans would win then we could brag that we lost to the best of the best
*There was a lot of beer and chips bought so we had to get together.
*All Realtors watched  so they could rejoice and say, "The football season is over.  … (1 comments)

A Dishwaser in Minneapolis - 02/05/10 06:05 PM
 
 
As a kid we did dishes as a family.    There were three of us kids and I was the youngest.  I usually had the scrape and stack detail. My older sister was the washer.  Not sure why age gave her that job, but it did.  I really wanted to play in those bubbles.  My brother was the dryer and quality control.  If a dish was not clean enough, back it went to Linda.  My brother grew to be the tallest, so he had the job of putting the things away.  Duirng the winter months and homework season, we would … (1 comments)

Minneapolis Has Hoar Frost - 02/04/10 02:14 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
In Minneapolis in the winter time we get hoar frost.  I have attempted to find out why it is called that, but all I get is scientific information as to what it is.  On our clear nights soft ice crystals form on vegetation or any object that has been chilled below freezing.  It can be so thick it appears to be snow.  It appears to be a winter wonderland as the fine feathers or needles or spines, whatever you want to call them, decorate the landscape.
These mornings become a hey day for those who … (1 comments)

We Are Garrison Keillor's Humor - 02/03/10 01:26 PM
 
 
You all laugh with and at Garrison Keillor with his home spun humor, but is is my state of Minneota that he writes about.  It is okay to laugh at his stories about our Lutheran churches and the casseroles with Tatter Tots.  That stuff is more real than fiction.   
Minneapolis and the rest of the cities are part of one of the most northern prairrie states.  We are flat until you get to northern Minnesota, and then you will find beautiful forests and rolling hills.  The mighty Mississippi River starts as a trickle in northern Minnesota and flows … (1 comments)

Service Plus in Minneapolis - 02/02/10 04:36 PM
 
 
 
 
Me and my refrigerator.  Several years ago my husband and I took our kitchen down to the studs and redid the kitchen.  We have really liked it from day one.  It is not real large, but it functions well for us and is very classy.  We put in a top of the line refrigerator.  Everything was going fine until about early fall.  Then this refrigerator and I started doing battle.
In Minneapolis our energy company does offer a service plus program.  I have the refrig on that program.  Thank goodness I do as I would be broke … (0 comments)

 

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