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K-9 Clean Up Service comes to townGales Ferry resident Anne Marie Beers stopped by my office today to place an ad in my "I Love Ledyard" newspaper.  I was fascinated by her new business, Pooper Troopers, which was born about 4 months ago. As advertised, Pooper Troopers "takes away what your dog l...

A Canadian Study suggests that a poorly named street creates a negative view in the minds of buyers. The Eastern Connecticut area has a number of street names that fall into the "What were they thinking?" catagory. I've written in the past about Hell Hollow Road in Voluntown. But how about, Numb...

When Carnac first came on the scene on January 1st of this year, he poked fun at the regular Rainers.  It seems for the first two months of the year, everyone here knew Angus, Kristal, ARDELL, Broker Bryant, Lenn's maps, Maureen's Carnivals and Carole's trains.  Most of the people that Carnac pi...

A mother was out walking with her 4 year old daughter. The daughter picked up something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth.The mother took the item away from her and asked her not to do that."Why" the daughter asked. "Because it's been laying outside, you don't know where it's bee...

On networking.... I've talked about the Cyberprofessionals here before. The Cyberprofessionals are a networking group with a history of over 11 years. They Cyberprofessionals got their start in the summer of 1995. They met chatting on the old RE/MAX Compuserve forum and had an idea, meet in pers...

When Carnac first came on the scene on January 1st of this year, he poked fun at the regular rainers.  It seems for the first couple of  months of the year, everyone here knew Angus, Kristal, ARDELL, Broker Bryant, Lenn's maps, Maureen's Carnivals and Carole's trains.  Most of the people that Car...

It was a great spring day here in Connecticut and I found myself thinking about one of my favorite summertime adventures - a trip to Buttonwood Farms in Griswold.  There are  2 reasons to go there. First, is the photo opportunity.The owners at Buttonwood Farms plant 10 acres of sunflowers, provid...

Every Friday on my Eastern CT Real Estate Blog I post a photo for Photo Friday. Some Fridays, a photo idea comes easier than others.....I've been a resident of Ledyard, CT since 1972 and have always been fascinated with the stone walls that line roads and form borders all over town. I was admiri...

Spectacular Waterfront 1920's English Cottage in Gales Ferry, CT!Spacious stone and stucco English Cottage on 2.3 riverfront acres on the Thames River! Designed and built in 1929 by architect Alfred Diederich, five bedrooms, four full baths and two half baths and over 3700 square feet are found i...

On March 10th, Carnac of Connecticut was in a panic.  "The Rainers are behaving, this is no fun at all!"   But as March moved on, the Rainers didn't disappoint as the shenanigans began. And this month,  Edna McMahon from Michigan,* even stopped by with a couple predictions of her own.  Today the...