George Souto Mortgage Loan Originator

This month Carol Williams and Anna Banana Kruchten are co-hosting the February 2022 ActiveRain Contest titled "What's Your Story".  It has been a while since I blogged anything about my past, so this seemed like a good time to share some of my personal and professional life story.My first entry w...

This month Carol Williams and Anna Banana Kruchten  are co-hosting the February 2022 ActiveRain Contests titled "What's Your Story".  It has been a while since I blogged anything about my past, so this seemed like a good time to share some of my life story with you. I was born in Portugal on a v...

Happy Presidents Day 2022!!! Today is Presidents Day, and for most workers in the U.S. a day off from work.  Presidents Day was not always known as Presidents Day, in fact up until 1968 there was no Presidents Day.Presidents Day was originally known as Washington's Birthday, and established in 18...

Happy Valentine's Day 2022 To All My ActiveRain Friends!!!  This is wishing all my friends here on ActiveRain a Happy Valentine's Day tomorrow.  I hope everyone takes the time today to tell everyone who is special to you how you feel about them, and spent quality time with them.Today my wife and ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. Worthy Of Our Respect And Honor.  Martin Luther King, Jr. deserves this honor and much, much more.  Some may argue that his dream has not been fulfilled, but I would argue otherwise.  However, this is not the blog to make that argument, this blog is to honor a man who saw ...

2022 New Year Dinner At The Souto House.  We had our New Year's Day traditional Dinner yesterday, and once again it was worth the wait.  We started this tradition over 30 years ago, and hope to continue it for many more years.  However, we did have to change things up a little bit this year, beca...

I just want to take this opportunity to say Happy New Year 2022 to all my friends here on ActiveRain.  I have been blessed to know several of you for many years, and have been blessed with new ActiveRain friends this year as well.  I am all set to kick off 2022, and leave 2021 behind.  I have com...

Merry Christmas To All My ActiveRain Friends In 2021.  Christmas has always been a day my wife and I have spent with our two son's, but now that my oldest son moved to Seattle, WA we have had to get a little more creative in celebrating Christmas.Also in the past my youngest son has alternated be...

Happy Thanksgiving 2021!I hope that everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving today.   Do not let the day go by without taking a few minutes to truly give thanks for all you have been blessed with, and if possible take the opportunity to be a blessing to someone else.  Today should not only be a day of g...

Fall Has arrived in Connecticut, which means it is time for me to begin my Progression Of Fall Colors series I started Nine years ago.  This is a series I hoped to continue for many more years to come, and have been able to do so far. The first two years the pictures were of a farm which is only ...