Here's a beautiful thing, I'm feeling lots of reasons to smile lately. Certainly lots of personal reasons, but that's a different blog. Getting featured was a surprise and definitely smile worthy! In reading through blogs and articles this week it seems that lots of people are keeping really,
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06/30/2011
Here is someone's chance to buy a cheap house near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Balsam, North Carolina! Who wouldn't love giving these directions to their guests? Smoky Mountain Highway to Candlestick Lane to Cabin Flats Road to Licorice Lane? This house has character, location,
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06/27/2011
Feature this? Me? Well, feature me head slappingly dumbfounded! By the way, as a brief side note - I typically can't stand Burger King commercials, but I love the term they've coined "head slappingly"...but I digress. Anyway, rewind to yesterday morning. I posted a brief tirade based on actual ev
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06/26/2011
There have been very few times I've suggested an expiration contingency in any real estate contract over the last seven years - it rarely was an issue...and everyone knows that timing IS everything, don't they? It seems like unless you are on a catamarran off the coast of Fiji during a mon
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06/25/2011
There's nothing I'd love better than to say I woke up today with a song in my heart just thinking about a few of my favorite things. But...that would be fibbing - my heart wasn't singing. I woke up pretty much like every morning to a dog barking. Looked outside and saw that it wasn't raining and
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06/23/2011
It was a beautiful morning for an early drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway. I knew the night before that I wanted to focus on the sunrises in one of the most incredible places in the country. As I was driving I was thinking how fortunate we are to have these vistas not even 15 minutes from the hou
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06/21/2011
I've Seen Fire and I've Seen Rain in the last day and a half. We had a couple of maple trees fall down during one of the ridiculously strong windstorms from a couple of weeks ago. Every time the burning got going, we'd get a cloudburst! Embers and coals stayed hot though and I kept on keepin
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06/19/2011
I made a comment once to Leslie Rojohn that my activity with ActiveRain was like participating in a professional "dream city". She suggested that the concept would make a great post and as usual, I think she's right. The ActiveRain community is made up of citizens of a perfect professional dream
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06/16/2011
I just finished reading Russel Ray's post today. Maybe it's because my father has been on my mind and we were taught so much about responsibility that Russel's brilliantly written post is ringing my chimes loudly. Not only is it smart business to participate in community events and organization
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06/15/2011
Joseph E. Gersky, 73, of Port Charlotte, Fla., passed away after a brave struggle with cancer on Thursday, June 9, 2011 surrounded by his family. He was born May 6, 1938 in Detroit, MI to Joseph P. and Dorothy H. Gersky. Joseph Gersky will be remembered as a loving husband and father, a good nei
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06/13/2011