This morning when I got up I checked the weather like I do every morning. This morning was another cold one. I thought I would share with everyone what an almost surreal weather report looks like on my acuweather app on my iPad. It is kind of a shock to the system to just see -10 degrees on t
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01/28/2014
Well it has taken me a number of years on ActiveRain to finally reach 300,000 points but I have finally reached it with this blog post. I owe so much to AR, as it introduced me to the world of blogging. I now have many different blogs, some I write to more frequently than others, but my favorit
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01/26/2014
I spend a lot of time driving around as a Realtor, and sometimes I am compeled to grab my camera that I keep next to me and take a few shots. Sometimes I look back on them and see that I have captured something quite interesting or beautiful without knowing it. Here is a shot I took of a winter
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01/24/2014
This morning I got up and there was blowing snow and wind outside. It was blizzardy conditions. My wife and I made some coffee and enoyed out morning conversation. We looked up at one point, and saw the snow had stopped and the sky had turned blue. When we ran out of coffee, it began to snow a
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01/24/2014
Right now outside there is -4 degree temps, and a -23 degree wind chill. The wind is really what goes down to the bone and grabs you with that icy hand of winter. My dog Blue is a rescue dog. My wife and I brought him into our lives last June when we rescued him from shelter in Indiana. He ha
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01/24/2014
This January has been such a cold one, I have noticed my own personal desire to stay indoors and limit my time out in the elements whenever possible. This condition also creates a sort of cabin fever which I am not fond of. I find myself spending time blogging and writing when I am not working
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01/22/2014
I was traveling around last week checking out some property just south of Sherwood, Michigan and on the road back I turned a corner and took this photo. It is a birch tree with some snow on it against a blue sky. The leaves are of course gone for the winter, but the white bark was quite beautif
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01/22/2014
I grew up in sunny Arizona. I always remember hearing stories from the Northerners who came to Arizona for the winter, and how cold it was up where they were from. As a kid, I always longed to see snow having grown up in the Valley of the Sun. However, I never dreamed that I would be on the r
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01/22/2014
I just released my newest book entitled: Land Contract Homes: The Top 10 Mistakes Home Buyers Make... And How to Avoid Them! It is currently available as an eBook on Amazon, and the print edition will be available sometime next week. I am waiting on the final proof to review before I make the p
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01/19/2014
I was driving around the last few days taking photos, and came across this barn. The colors were a rich red, and the combination of the fence and snow on the roof made for a classic setting.
01/16/2014