In our house, we have two dogs – combined weight is about 150 lbs of dog.  We are peculiar dog owners:  we like our dogs just fine – but you won’t find us spoiling them, taking them with us on trips, or treating them like part of the family.  In fact, our daughters never even [...]

There’s an issue that keeps coming back to haunt Home Owners in Central Texas and if you’re going to be selling your home, you absolutely must keep tabs on the local bird population.  It was a new experience for me, coming from Chicago where the only “nature” are stray cats and dog-sized sewer rats.  But [...]

Last week, I was reading a post by Jason Crouch: Are YOU the Eddie Haskell of Real Estate? I am old enough to remember reruns of “Leave it to Beaver”, so I knew all about the suck-up insincere character from the show. Jason makes a good point about being yourself in this blog. Then on [...]

Over the holidays, I was able to work on consolidating my Home Staging inventory… Fancy talk for going through my tubs and pulling out broken and damaged goods.  While doing so, I noticed that bedding was taking up several totes each:  One for the comforter, one for bedding pillows, one for decorative pillows, and one [...]

Before I set my goals on resolutions for 2009, I need to wrap up my 2008 Resolution.  One of my goals for 2008 was to take back some of the privacy we have given up by making ourselves available on the web via sites like A/R and Facebook, etc.  With out even realizing it, the [...]

Thanksgiving 2026 is going to be interesting.  Why 2026?  Our younger daughter should be graduating from college around that year.  So both of the girls should be fairly independent.  What brings this to mind? A couple of weeks ago, Uncle Matt and Aunt Alison were in town, and I was putting Eliana (4yrs) down for [...]