Alexsandra's Real Estate Blog, Portland OR

An international event sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund, Earth Hour is a global effort to encourage individuals, families, businesses and governments to shut "non-essential" lights off for one hour to focus awareness on climate change. Earth Hour began in Australia in 2007. That year 2.2 mill...

Can your website detect visitors who are visiting via their smart phones? Does your website allow those visitors the ability to see a message just for them? And then allow them to call or email you - get a map - with just a tap? Schmap Enable does just that. A little bit of code enables your webs...

Schmap.com is a site with lots of fun ways to use maps and guides. You can download over 200 city guides, put maps in your tweets, create map and site widgets for your blogs and websites, share your maps, reviews and travel plans to mention just a few of the creative things you can do with their ...

There are many ways that being on Active Rain helps, teaches or surprises.  A small, half forgotten event might grow into something wild and wonderful, and you might find your creative efforts end up in New York City. Last November Kathy McGraw had an idea. She decided to open a Group where every...

If you had asked me I would have said that the auction would have been in an office, in a building, maybe in a courtroom. It wasn't.  The residential property auction was held in Oregon City, on the Clackamas County Courthouse steps. I figured that auctions on the courthouse steps were obsolete, ...

Driving through Southeast Portland today I noticed the camelias are looking gorgeous.   I saw bright red, white and pink blooms glowing in pale light. Their deep green leaves have been thoroughly cleaned by wind and rain, the storm that blew through last night. I felt a pang, and realized I misse...

Was going through my old copies of Preservation, the magazine published by the National Historic Trust, today - I am trying like crazy to get through the stacks of magazines I've been waiting for a chance to read!  and I came across the July/August 2008 issue.  There is a review of the book refer...

I was first tagged on Facebook, for 25 Random Things about me, and did it awhile ago. I hadn't seen it here on Active Rain until Anne Marie Malfi tagged me -- thank goodness she didn't ask me to tag 25 friends!   Anne Marie said she hadn't ever been accused of being random -- have to say I have b...

Missy Gerber of Organizers Northwest sent this event notice to me -- and said to pass it on!   They'd love to have a big turnout - and the event is certainly timely.   You can shred all the receipts you don't have to keep for income tax purposes.  You can shred all the tax info that is more than ...