11 years ago next month, I got my first cell phone. It was a Nokia that was the size of the palm of my hand. It was tiny. I thought I was on top of the world going all high-tech and all... however, I didn't give the number to too many people and didn't really use it much. Sometimes, if I was jus
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09/30/2011
After breaking down in the boat on Lake Austin on Saturday, Mike spent the next couple of days ordering new parts for the Supra Launch, waiting for the parts to come in, and then working on it the past couple of days. We took it for a test drive this afternoon, and it seems to all be working agai
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09/29/2011
Why can't it just RAIN in Bee Cave TX?? It rained in parts of Austin yesterday and the news even said Lakeway had 0.13 inches of rain, and they're just a couple of minutes away. Here is what my sidewalk looked like after 5 minutes... And after 20 minutes, this is all the rain that came through my
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09/28/2011
Making a bold statement is so hard sometimes. I'm tired of the boring "builder white" in my house. We have this "tower" in the front entry that I've been wanting to make a splash with. After 2 1/2 years, we finally got some paint samples and slapped them up on the wall. After all this time of
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09/27/2011
Texas Property Tax Homestead Exemptions just got a little more in-depth. It used to be "easy" to file your Homestead Exemption in the state of Texas. Each county has their form online and it usually takes under 2 minutes to fill it out. Some counties required it to be notarized while others don'
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09/27/2011
Summer decided to make another appearance here in Austin TX as we hit Triple Digits again this weekend. I had this brilliant idea to go to Lake Austin because why would many people be out on the water after Labor Day?? Wow! We were so totally and completely wrong! There were so many boats on
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09/26/2011
ActiveRain has been a huge part of my business and life for the past 5 years. Over the weekend, I hit a huge milestone. I became the 18th person to hit 1,000,000 points. I should have hit a million several months ago, but being pregnant last year, and then having the baby this year, I slacked in
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09/25/2011
The Austin Water Utility is asking for home owners with St. Augustine grass to let their yards die and replace it with an option that takes less watering, like Bermuda or Buffalo Grass, especially in times of droughts. Austin Water has a plan in place that will pay home owners $10 for every 100 s
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09/24/2011
The wildfires throughout Central Texas, and all of Texas for that matter, have been horrendous this year. Fire after fire, and many in very unsuspecting places like in the middle of master planned communities. To raise money for the victims of the Central Texas wildfires, the Frank Erwin Center
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09/23/2011
The City of Austin is getting rid of Lead Based Paint for some lucky home owners. In every real estate transaction for every house built before 1978, we have to attach a "Lead Based Paint Addendum" which basically states that the sellers have given any information they know about lead based pain
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09/23/2011
