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2011
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This is a screen-shot from our current MLS. The listing agent's first request is Bring offers ASAP! The property is reasonably priced, and it's only been on the market a little more than a week... so why the plaintive plea? I can only assume, based on the photo, that the agent is afraid that if ...
11/30/2011
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Okay, this morning, I performed the most sacred of our civic duties. I voted. And now I'm on my way to Starbucks, who's offered a free cup of Joe (no, not Joe the Plumber) for all those who've voted. My daughter called me early this morning to remind me of the importance of voting... (and since...
11/27/2011
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Okay... Everybody gets a little worked-up when talking, thinking, dreaming about that little golden Feature star. Quit obsessing (says Carie Shapiro, who's a newbie to Active Rain with zero Features thus far... who's currently sitting at my desk visiting.), and I agree with her Now, while Featur...
11/27/2011
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For those of you who didn't know, yesterday was Small Business Saturday. While I was aware of that, I didn't have any specific plans regarding SBS. But I have a standing lunch appointment with my sister and our mom, that we meet at Dengeos. I also use Foursquare, so when I checked in, I saw the...
11/27/2011
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The preparation is over. The smells of good-things cooking in the house is gone. We still have some left-overs (gawd, smoked turkey is even better cold, with mashed potatoes, stuffin' and peas)... the guests are gone, the candles are blown out. The cranberry stain on the table cloth has been re...
11/26/2011
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This is just how lovely our kitchen table looked, about 30 minutes before we started Thanksgiving dinner. That's a Costco pumpkin pie at the left.. you can tell by it's resemblance, in size, to the hubcap of a Cadillac. Hidden just to the left of the pie, is a plate of short-bread cookies baked ...
11/25/2011
BLACK FRIDAY It sounds bad, doesn't it? We talk about things in colours - Friday was the blackest of days. But it doesn't make a lot of sense, does it? Since Black Friday is one of the very best days for retailers? You'd think they would call it Golden Friday, or Green Friday (for the colour o...
11/25/2011
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We're hosting Thanksgiving later this evening. And I just learned that my sister, who's invited over along with her family, is bringing something called a Pumpple Cake. Now, I didn't know what a Pumpple Cake was, so I looked it up. Oh-My-Gosh! This is the great White Whale of cakes. Now, that...
11/24/2011
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This is most definitely the time of year to consider those things, for which, we're grateful. We're having a small group this year (for which I'm grateful). As you can see the table is set, and Mrs. Elvis is in the kitchen preparing for our dinner. This year we've purchased a "smoked" turkey.. (...
11/24/2011
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Greg Schneider and Linda Franz, of PHH Mortgage, each year around this time, provide pies for the agents in our office. And they're not 'just' pies, they're pies from Costco. So they're really BIG pies.... They offer us a choice of Pumpkin or Apple Pie... (I'm a Pumpkin guy)... Today, they're d...
11/23/2011
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