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2008
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Until a few years ago I had never seen a Bluebird. We moved about 40 miles from our last home and then we started seeing them. They are fun to watch and really help control the insect population around our home. We eventually learned about nesting boxes for bluebirds. They need to be situated pre...
06/10/2008
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You know I can't really give you the definition of "Green" in relation to building homes other than I believe it involves using materials and labor that cause minimal impact to the environment and result in minimal energy usage in the completed home. Our local Home Builder Association has been h...
06/10/2008
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The monthly statistics for the month of May are in for the Bryan-College Station Regional Association of Realtors MLS Service. There are several noteworthy items: Average sold prices are down about 4.5% over May a year ago, but I am not to concerned as there was a quick little burst of upper en...
06/10/2008
I attended another First Friday event in downtown Bryan, Texas this past weekend. And like last time it was a great evening. We started out the evening, with a Very Tender and Juicy steak at the new River Ridge Restaurant in the old Howell Grocery building on Maine St. We then made our way thro...
06/09/2008
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New or Antique? Well it is summer time again and my better half and I typically wind down our long summer days by just watching the sun sets from our front porch. Well... our front porch is actually our back porch, and since we reside on a good size tract of land it really doesn't matter what i...
06/09/2008
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Sometime ago I obtained a listing. The home was pretty plain vanilla and needed a little pizazz.. so the sellers asked me what to do on a low budget. It was spring time and I said well " buy a quart of paint and paint the front and spend $50.00 on color for the flower bed in the front yard." I w...
06/08/2008
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Last year we didn't get to cut the hay on our little ranch between Hearne and Franklin , Texas and I won't go into the reason's why ...but this week we finally were able to get a cutting. Yea! There is nothing quite like the smell of fresh hay when they just cut it and it is laying on the ground...
06/07/2008
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Today is the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first drive-in theater in America . It all began in Camden New Jersey. Go to http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa980121.htm Are you old enough to remember going to the drive-in theater? In elementary school days my family would go and catc...
06/06/2008
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Originally constructed in 1901. One hundred years later it was moved accross the highway from it's original location and was designated to be renovated and restored. It is now 7 years later and as I passed by today it looks like some work has finally begun! Yea! This is really an interesting ...
06/04/2008
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My primary hat is as real estate broker,but I have an unending love and respect for home building. Our family has been building for a long time. My grandfather started building in our area in the 1930's and we still operate a small home building company today. We found an estimate of costs for on...
06/04/2008
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