Yesterday was a milestone in our efforts to return to pre-pandemic life. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the first step in easing mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people allowing them to stop wearing masks outdoors in crowds, and in most indoor settings.In certa
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05/14/2021
At last, I had the opportunity to travel this weekend, an activity that has escaped many of us this past year. The trip was a short one. But a welcome chance to visit somewhere different with an overnight stay in Flagstaff. It is only a two-hour drive from North Scottsdale to Flagstaff, Arizona,
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04/19/2021
When most people think of Arizona they think of the desert, and rightly so because we sit smack dab in the middle of the Sonoran Desert. But what most people don’t know is that the native desert is rapidly disappearing.In the late 1800s, a series of canals brought water to the desert. Arizona bec
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04/17/2021
Arizona is home to many wonderful places for residents and tourists alike to visit and enjoy. Some are natural wonders like the Grand Canyon, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, or Kartchner Caverns. Others are man-made like The Hoover Dam or the Tumacácori National Historical Park.All of these places
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04/13/2021
Whether we like it or not the modern world has created a form of bondage that is hard to escape. Widespread access to the internet, with its hundreds of media outlets and social media, have us tuned in to the digital world 24 hours a day.In all fairness, it would be difficult to conduct business
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04/06/2021
Can you call it a moral victory when you make a sale in today’s sellers’ market?A moral victory is one where you believe that you are right, even if what you have accomplished is considerably less than what would have been accomplished had the main battle been won.The main battle I am speaking o
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03/30/2021
As anyone that has done a least a few real estate transactions will attest, they can get pretty bizarre at times. Buyers and Sellers often focus too much on things that do not have significant monetary value but have meaning to them in other ways.A few months back one sale I was working on fell t
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03/22/2021
Welcome to Spring 2021. The vernal equinox, which marks the beginning of astronomical spring in the Northern Hemisphere, took place this day of 3/20/21 at 5:37 am EDT.To celebrate today we went to a garden center and purchased some lovely flowering plants for our yard.While the weather may not be
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03/20/2021
Spring Baseball is back in the Valley of the Sun. Like so many things that were interrupted in 2020, spring baseball has returned for 2021. While this year’s schedule will be shortened slightly to 29 days and all ballparks will be operating at limited attendance and following strict COVID-19 prot
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03/09/2021
I had a chance today to get out and enjoy the great Phoenix weather. It's spring in Phoenix and as we prepare for the car auctions which invade the valley each year the streets are filled with classic cars of all types. From Ferraris to Model T's every car fan is showing off their wheels.Anyone t
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03/08/2021