up north lake cabins: Buying & Selling MN Homes
- 04/18/15 09:40 AM
Here in sunny and now finally warm Minnesota we have had a fabulous past few days with record breaking warm termperatures. Note to sellers: Sellers need to take advantage of this break in the weather and spruce up the outside of the home. Add some mulch, pressure wash the exterior, clean the windows-replacing any broken glass, wash down the doors and scrape any chipping peeling paint and paint if needed. It’s been sunny for a few days and many of the trees and flowers are blooming. This means an early start on selling houses too. Note for buyers: Exciting times for buyers now! Mortgage applications are up 4% over the last 4 (1 comments)
A California dream researcher has proven something that wouldn’t surprise Mozart or Keith Richards. It’s that dreaming is a great way to solve creative problems. Dr. Sara Mednick, a sleep psychologist at the University of California, San Diego, found that subjects who, between morning and afternoon word-game sessions, took a nap that included a period of lively dreaming called REM sleep, improved their later scores by 40%. Scores for those who merely rested or whose naps included no REM sleep didn’t budge. REM sleep is the most conked-out stage of slumber, named after the rapid eye movement that characterizes it. The idea that (1 comments)