Marana, AZ - A Place in World History!! I learned an interesting little factoid over the weekend that I wanted to share, along with my blimp photo! Marana is home to its own little airpark, and we regularly see the crop dusters and hot air balloons floating overhead. Sometimes it gets more excit
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10/17/2011
"Helldorado Days" comes to Tombstone, AZ, October 21-23 In 1976 I visited Tombstone, AZ for the first time. I've been to "old west" stuff before - Tombstone was different. Tombstone is "real". Photo courtesy of Nick Ares The town is a living history and memorial to historic moments of the Ol
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10/15/2011
Let Your Passion Take You Up and Away! We traveled to New Mexico to enjoy the balloons last week and got caught by the weather. Seems that arid Albuquerque got some badly needed rain - at a bad time for balloon flying. Temps got quite chilly as well! Coming from toasty Tucson, we brought along
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10/14/2011
Sit Down For Thanksgiving Dinner in Your New Tucson Home Can you believe it - Thanksgiving is only 6 weeks away! Where did Summer go? As the temperatures drop, and the fall colours arrive, it's easy to start thinking ahead to the holidays. How would you like to be in your new home for the start
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10/13/2011
The Generi-cation of America I went to a German Festival in our city this weekend and was met with frozen pretzels, what looked like frozen or store-made strudel, wholesale hot dogs, and the usual street fair candied nuts, ices, and cotton candy. A karaoke singer was singing something unrecogniza
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10/12/2011
My Daughter Gave Blood on Vacation So last week we took my mother to one of her vacation bucket list spots - The Albuquerque Balloon Festival. I have to admit - I didn't realize it would be SO exciting - I took over 500 photos...not including the ones I deleted...because I got so caught up in the
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10/12/2011
September 2011 Homes for Sale Tucson Statistics are out from the Tucson Multiple Listing Service for Tucson Metropolitan area and homes for sale Tucson for the month of September 2011. Some of the highlights of the September housing statistics include a decrease of total sales volume from last mo
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10/11/2011
My Best Friend's Home has Burnt To the Ground I went on a short vacation this weekend to take my mother to the balloon festival, and while I was away, tragedy struck my best friend living back in Casco, WI. While I was watching fireworks, her family home of 30+ years was burning down. She was at
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10/10/2011
Marana Concert in the Park This Saturday, October 8, 2011 Like parks? Like music? Like FREE? Like relaxing? Like mountain views? GET: Concert in the Park at Marana Crossroads at Silverbell District Park! (Marana exit at Cortaro, west from I-10. Three minutes to Silverbell Road. Park is immedi
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10/06/2011
Random Thoughts on a Monday We went to Oktoberfest here in Tucson yesterday and decided that Decemberfest would be a better event with the Arizona Heat. These are NOT fun at 103 degrees... (notice the operator hiding in the shade) I drove my daughter to choir practice this morning at 7 a.m. an
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10/03/2011
