Most of our time away from our businesses, our "home time", is spent in our gardens here in Earlysville, Virginia. Since building our home twenty-one years ago, Stephen has focused on creating vegetable gardens, and I have invested my creative time building perennial gardens. We've always had a
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06/26/2011
Stephen and I live in one of those close-to-town rural-ish spots that has cable television all around us, but we can't get it without spending a bunch of money to bring it to the house. So, we've been DirectTV devotees for years. When TV went digital, it didn't affect us at all, except for one
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06/25/2011
Jay O'Brien is a fun Kansas City Realtor who share some great blogging tips. I've finally gotten my Facebook Fan Page up and running, and soon, I need to take it the step and make it work for me. These following tips are a good start! Facebook is amazing. I've closed two transactions this y
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06/25/2011
The weekend is full and fun as always, with swimming at local lakes and the markets open all over.... Charlottesville City Market, 2nd Street and Water, 7 am til Noon Crozet Farmers Market, Corner Jarmans Gap & Crozet Ave, 8 am - Noon Greene County Farmers Market, Greene County Tech Center (Rt 33
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06/24/2011
If you follow my blog, you know by now that I create mosaic art. You may know about the loveseat I created for the Gallery in Downtown Charlottesville. A couple of years ago I asked people to send me photos of themselves sitting on the sculpture. After a busy day of showing homes, imagine the
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06/21/2011
This is one of the simpler, better descriptions of how to really tweak your Linked In Profile. It's not easy keeping your name and profile "up there", so doing it right the first time helps keep it going. Updating my LinkedIn profile and tweaking it for optimization and SEO purposes seems to
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06/21/2011
Did you know that the Municipal Band of Charlottesville is "one of the oldest continuously operating amateur community bands in the United States." You can read about the rich history of the band at it's website, "History of the Municipal Band of Charlottesville", as well as enjoy a wonderful bl
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06/21/2011
Whenever I attend an inspection of a Charlottesville area home, I'm interested in knowing everything about the house my Buyer is considering, but I look most closely for water issues. Over the years, I've seen more costly repairs happen as a result of simple things like leaky toilets, soil that'
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06/20/2011
What's happening in the Earlysville real estate market? It's mid-June 2011, and I wanted to know how we're doing here in Earlysville. Currently available properties: Following are sales data, which is the best indication, of course... The specifics of the homes sold...
06/19/2011
Mortgage lender, Rebekah Radice, often offers good time management and organizing tips on her blog. In this following post, Time management Tips, she mentions a Password Management program called Roboform. I used Roboform for years and really liked it. It was great for the PC, particularly i
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06/18/2011
