Jim's blog about Mission Valley and San Diego
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2010
If you don't yet have a copy of "The Cat Lover's Book of Days," you should head on over to Peg Silloway's web site and order one right now. She'll even autograph it with the message of your choice. We got a copy for our household just before Christmas, and I've been reading the entry for each da...
01/04/2010
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Time waits for no one. To realize the value of a brother or sister, ask someone who doesn't have one. To realize the value of ten years, ask a newly divorced couple. To realize the value of four years, ask a graduate. To realize the value of one year, ask a student who has failed a final exam. To...
01/04/2010
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La Jolla recently was named the most expensive place to live in the United States, for the umpteenth time. It's because the small enclave overlooks a beautiful part of the California coast. While I personally would not want to live in La Jolla because it's just too difficult to get in and out of...
01/03/2010
Now I know what my marketing guru goes through when he comes home from his morning walk each day with hundreds of pictures. I came home from the Birch Acquarium today with 187 pictures, and trying to sort through them is a monumental task in and of itself. I was able to play the A-B game to come...
01/03/2010
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After my open house today, where I acquired a couple as new Clients, I went to Birth Aquarium with them since the Aquarium has an exhibit on sea horses that is going to close this month. Although I enjoy going to the Aquarium here, it does not rank in my top 10, which is kind of odd since San Di...
01/03/2010
Even though we're all going to die, I always feel sorry for a family when someone in the family dies. However, sometimes I also wonder just what people are thinking when they do certain things, and apparently I'm not the only one since there is even a web site called Darwin Awards that makes ton...
01/03/2010
I grew up in a modest house in a modest neighborhood in Highland, California. My family's idea of fun was not to have more goodies than the Joneses, but to spend time with each other, and that usually meant taking some nice vacations. I don't know when the first time was that I visited the San D...
01/03/2010
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The December 26, 2004, tsunami that swept away about 230,000 lives around the Indian Ocean caused many areas of the world to sit up and take notice, including the coastal areas of the United States. The City of Encinitas, California, about 30 miles from me, started installing tsunami warning sig...
01/02/2010
The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released statistics for October showing San Diego County as the third fastest recovering housing market. Only Phoenix and San Francisco were recovering faster, according to the Index, and only Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., had higher index ...
01/02/2010
I've been wanting to do this for a long time, and I figure the start of a new year is just the time to do it. As many readers know, Russel Ray and I have been together for 15½ years and took advantage of the six months in 2008 in California when we could get married to do just that. Up until 200...
01/02/2010
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Jim Frimmer
Realtor & CDPE, Mission Valley specialist