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Obama's Firing of McChrystal - Was it harder than firing your real estate agent? Let me start with a caveat - You have a sigend contract with your real estate agent. Before you attempt any changes in that signed contract, contact your real estate agent or an attorney. I'm not an attorney and I'm ...

Call me sentimental, but I was just revisiting my first AR Post. "Getting started (edit/delete) I've just created and populated my Active Rain profile. I'd like to keep going, but I kept going all day long! I've made a commitment to walk ten thousand steps a day at least four days a week (check o...

Can you guess what this is? I know it looks like a motorcycle, but what you see here is my kitchen upgrade.  My darling has a passion for motorcycles.  I should have realized the dozen Franklin Mint motorcycles he's collected weren't going to satisfy his need for speed.  

Market Snapshot 2010/06/21 For those of you who like pictures - TA!DA! I've finally got the chart reflecting the date of the weekly data points. So, you can see that there is a trend for slight increase in number of homes available and a decrease in the number of homes under contract. This data i...

Little Things My Son Does to Amuse Me - There are many things my son does that amuse or bemuse me.  How he eats pizza is one of them  Pizza and french fries - let's say there are 10 pieces of pizza or 10 french fries; he'll take one, and only one, bite out of each piece or fry before taking up th...

Eating Fresh in the Summer All the best flavors come from the freshest ingredients. One of the great benefits of local food sources is that the food can be harvested at the peak of its flavor. Starting with your own backyard as an ideal location for freshness, if you aren't wanting to grow your o...

Here come the raspberries! In spite of this being the coldest, wettest spring in recorded history, fruits and flowers continue to do what they do here in Vancouver WA.  Here's what I collected from the front yard this afternoon:

Fun Run June 26, 2010! This event will be tremendous fun: Register for the Summer Solstice 3 or 6 mile walk or run and do something good for you while benefitting Community Choices! Dear Supporters of our Parks, Trails and Recreational Opportunities: Do something good for YOU and help raise money...

Market Snapshot 2010/06/14 My personal reaction when I reviewed the numbers today was "oh no!". Our pending count is down about 5% from last week's numbers. What this suggests to me is that the removal of the government incentives did have a significant affect on market activity. Here are the num...

Do you have your headset handy in Washington? If you want to talk on your cellphone while you're driving (dangerous!), then you'll need to be aware that Washington has changed their law regarding holding your cellphone near your ear while you're driving (expensive!). The new law makes holding a w...