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A blog about community events in the Olympia/Lacey/Tumwater area in WA including the real estate market in those communities.

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2011 

11/30/2011
Shop local for the holidays is a popular idea across the country this year - and the Olympia/Lacey area has some great upcoming opportunities to do just that!    This coming Saturday, December 3, 2011, you can go do some great  book shopping - and you will be really pleased with the prices.  It's...
11/29/2011
How cool is it that we have a special day called Thanksgiving to remind us all to ponder the many, many things we have in our lives to be thankful for! I wish you all a day filled with laughter, love, and quiet contentment. And I know that I have so many things to be thankful for that my thankful...
11/24/2011
Christmas Forest in Olympia will be open soon for the 2011 holiday season!  Close your eyes and visualize the most beautiful decorated Christmas tree or wreath you have ever seen.  Now multiply that by 50 and you get a small sense of the treat in store for you at this year's Christmas Forest! Ope...
11/21/2011
The annual Gingerbread Cottage Competition in Olympia will be next weekend, November 26 & 27, 2011 offering some great free family fun downtown.  It will be open from noon - 5:00 and is located above the Urban Onion Restaurant in the Olympia Ballroom (116 Legion, Olympia).     This is always so m...
11/20/2011
The Olympia area weather forecasts had said that snow was a possibility - but I was still a little surprised to wake up this morning to a light, powdery white covering on our lawn, trees and shrubs.    Our Lab was beside herself with glee and had to race around the yard a few times before her reg...
11/19/2011
What kind of a new construction home do you want to buy in the Olympia WA area?  When I am asking a buyer this question, I usually get that look that means "What kind of question is that!".  But let me explain, because there are different types of new construction to consider.     In the Olympia,...
11/17/2011
11/16/2011
    We have had an unusually beautiful autumn in the Olympia WA area, with weather conditions apparently absolutely right to produce breathtaking leaves of red, gold and orange.  Driving around and admiring these leaves has had me thinking about the value of appreciating both the temporary things...
11/15/2011
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Our family had the sad need to have a cat funeral this weekend after my son's family's cat got hit by a car - right in front of their house no less.  Eddie the cat was one of those super personality cats who seem to take over a household, and his death hit all of us pretty hard. We planned to bur...
11/14/2011
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