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Real Estate Agent - Chris Alston (Keller Williams Realty, Silicon Valley, California) - 01338415
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Just chillin' in my front yard.  Hanging out, relaxing in the sun.  As you can see from the loooong shadows, this snake must have lost track of time as he was still there as it was getting late.   So you know boys will be boys, and I had to look at it closer, and get some pictures! My front yard ...
08/07/2011
On my way back from backpacking in Pinnacles National Monument last weekednd, I saw this barn on the side of the road.  Sometimes we seem to just be driving and never stop to really look at the true beauty that can exist outside of what we were looking for or looking at.  I stopped my truck and j...
08/03/2011
It's that time again to post the Home Sale stats for the County of Santa Clara, California.  This first chart is for single family homes, and you can see that the active properties for sale has pretty much been holding steady after reaching it's peak maybe for the year.  Looking at last year, our...
08/03/2011
It's that time again, time to talk about the housing market in the City of Cupertino.  This first graph is for single family homes.  (detached homes) As you can see from the month end (July 2011) we are seeing ain increase in the amount of homes that are for sale.  Last year our peak was June, as...
08/03/2011
I spend the weekend backpacking at the Pinnacles National Monument in Central California.  Located a few miles outside of Hollister California.  Temps at the park were over 100 which made the long hike to the high peaks pretty hot! The high peaks trail (about 10 miles) takes you on a vertical cli...
07/31/2011
I went to the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton a few weekends ago...  I actually went to see Tracy Lawrence perform.  For those of you that are not county music lovers, he is a country singer.  It was a good show. After the early show, we did some walking, and came across this ride that had a lo...
07/19/2011
  He said to me, “I can’t lift this darn 50lb phone!” A 50lb phone.  Phones are never that heavy, yet when it seems that when we are supposed to do our lead generation, we look at the phone as if it is a pair of dumbbells that are just toooooooo heavy for us to lift…  As if our arms would break o...
07/19/2011
Sometimes we need to read something that just makes us smile as we start our day. I was scrolling around the web and found this, and thought is was tooooo funny not to post... Guess when the death star was blown up (twice) there were some people looking for jobs... I guess the motivation is that ...
07/17/2011
"Early to bed, early to rise...   Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" Benjamin Franklin...   Early to bed, and early to rise...  We sometimes seem so busy that we spend so many days staying up late to get that one last thing done for the day.  Thinking that if we just get these things done, it...
07/10/2011
Okay, you know I like to have fun, and love to laugh... AND you know that I always seem to come across the funniest of videos! I few months back, I came across the second video in this blog about a girl posting her video on an online dating site... She ended up crying when she talked about her lo...
07/10/2011
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