I love books, and since my children heard and read books from their infancy, they love books, too. I hate to get rid of books - passing them on is ok, but that's mainly fiction. The nonfiction I keep because I may want to reread them. Over the years of our moves, our books have added tons of weig
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12/16/2006
Margaret Rome just memed me, so here goes:1. For several years in Tennessee, when my husband and I owned an oil and gas exploration company, I leased mineral rights in rural Tennessee (Deer Lodge, in Morgan County). We also drilled the biggest oil well in Tennessee (at least, at that time). 2. M
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12/16/2006
Kenwood is an older neighborhood with lots of bungalows. A decade ago it was deteriorating, and not very appealing. Then the transition started! People started renovating the bungalows, and creating a community. Many of the streets are brick, and there are large trees for shade. Even picket fence
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12/16/2006
The Parkshore Grill opened about two weeks ago in downtown St. Petersburg,at the corner of Beach Dr. NE and 3rd Ave N. It's located on the street level of Parkshore Plaza, the luxury condominium tower that opened in August. I'd heard good reports about the restaurant from my daughter and some fri
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12/16/2006
Pinellas County, Florida includes St. Petersburg, Clearwater and 22 other municipalities, including several beach communities. It has a population just over 1,000,000 people with 87% of them full time residents.November 2006 statistics have been released by the Pinellas Realtor Organization and l
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12/16/2006
When you're reviewing your budget for next year, DO compare apples and oranges. Let's say you're considering sending out a Home By Design magazine to a 300 home farm. That's 300 x $4 or $1,200 per mailing, which is every other month. Where does this come from? Your farming budget may already inc
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12/16/2006
We often plan for client gifts at this time of year but we should expand that list. Rob baked wonderful chocolate chip cookies and Tami bought the tins. We filled the tins with cookies and delivered them to the security guards at developments we frequent and to the concierges at the luxury condom
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12/15/2006
We've had blogs recently about setting a marketing plan and budget for 2007. We're very concerned about placement. We want good and consistent placement for our ads: the double center of one publication, the inside back cover of another, placement on the page that tells about a great remodellin
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12/12/2006
After reading a blog post that I like, I also like to read the comments - but with more participants, there just isn't enough time in the day. TLW commented once about people who make comments that may be duplicates, because they haven't read all the comments. Bryant's featured blog about seller
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12/10/2006
Recently I blogged about the Amazon price for this at 79.99 ($20 rebate if this is an upagrade). Too late for me, I already ordered it and it has shipped.In this morning's papers, I see that Staples has it for $59.99 ($20 rebate from this if it's an upgrade). Great time to buy it, if you've had i
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12/10/2006
