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2009
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One of my clients wrote me for a bit of flooring advice in her 3 bedroom/ 2 bath San Antonio area starter home. After a water heater leak, she had installed a Carribean Cherry Laminate wood flooringin one of her guest bedrooms and was now ready to make some flooring decisions for the public space...
12/28/2009
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Or they should be! Although I am not necessarily a proponent of more government regulation, I think some airline policies should be added...My mother raised me to be polite and considerate of others and am grateful for her efforts. Try as I might, I am far from a standard of Stepford-like perfec...
12/26/2009
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There is really nothing like the day after Christmas. Not the first day of retirement Not the first day of vacation Not even the moment after 5 kids finally go to bed Really, the Peace is Incomparable: Exquisite in it's Simplicity, Glorious in it's Silence, Heavenly. This is the only way I ...
12/26/2009
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No Christmas Tree No Christmas Cookies to decorate No getting guest rooms ready for visitors No Lights to string on the house I admit, that we did have some shopping to do.... How did this (otherwise), Christmas miracle occur you may ask? We aren't in San Antonio this week. Instead we have b...
12/25/2009
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If you haven't had your sweet tooth fulfilled yet, and are in the Sacramento area, you have to stop at Rick's Dessert Diner. It fits in conveniently after Christmas shopping as they are open every day for dessert sand coffee until at least 11pm. Steve and I were there with our son Jon on Tuesd...
12/24/2009
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Well, the state slogan used to commemorate the discovery of and subsequent Gold Rush of the 1800s. That's over. Then it became a reference to the fabulous business climate and huge state economy. That's over. But, this morning at breakfast at Mel's Diner on Truxel Road, I asked the waitress, "Do ...
12/21/2009
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December 19, 2009. Residents of nearby Alamo Ranch neighborhoods such as Riverstone at Alamo Ranch will be excited that more site work is being done on the new "Westwinds area" Elementary School which is scheduled to open for the 2011 school year. Yet to be officially named, the "Westwinds area...
12/20/2009
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I don't know if your addiction is this out of control, but we are such food freaks that we drove to New Orleans last week, just for dinner. We had the Oysters Bienville, the gumbo, delicious hush puppies, a redfish with buerre blanc and for dessert: Cappuccinos and cheesecake with a raspberry cou...
12/20/2009
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It's barely light outside and Steve and I are at the San Antonio Airport, waiting to board our flight to California, where we are going to be until Christmas. The boarding area if full of excited kids wearing scarves and backpacks. They laugh and bounce around, parents sitting nearby, just trying...
12/19/2009
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New statistics are just out today (Dec 16, 2009) from the San Antonio Board of Realtors and our fair city is still showing it's strength, especially compared to the national market. Year-over-year sales of single-family homes for November were 52% higher than last year (units sold). The average ...
12/16/2009
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