Rose's Blog

Yup...you guessed it.  M&M's!!!!  And I am an M&M junkie.  I LOVE M&M'S!  So much so, that people invariably give me M&M's at holidays, my birthday, anytime they want to buy me something. Last year, I thought of a novel way to use my love of these little color rounds to my advantage; it was a mar...

Summer in the Mt. Washington Valley in northern New Hampsire is far from over!  The birds are still trilling their song, and the mountains still beckoning the hikers to climb higher and higher!!!!! Lakes and rivers are overflowing after heavy rains; the fish are still biting!  Conway Lake, which ...

I've always had a type A personality.  Driven, obsessive, always thinking about the next thing, rarely able to focus totally on the present (too busy looking at the future!) I tried many venues to curb this tendency to always be "moving".  In my early 20's I did the "est" training; some of you ma...

BLOGGING!  Yes, I had been away the entire day and had not had my daily fix of blogging...I was astounded that I had been hooked by the big one.  Can't say I wasn't warned.  I was.  By nearly every worthwile blogger that i know.  But it still caught me by surprise. The only way I can justify this...

This year's "Rally in the Valley" drew motorcyclists and visitors from all over the United States and worldwide.  The program was designed by our local businesses in conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce and other commerce groups to tap into the motorcycle rallies that spring up in northern Ne...

The use of wind energy has been around for over a thousand years, its uses limited only by the mind. Recently my hubby and I (since we're building a new home anyway) decided to investigate wind power turbines.  We had a dream of installing a "small" device (transation: nobody wants to see it!) on...

After Freddie Mac's amazing loss of revenue, Fannie Mae's posted loss should come as no surprise.  Fannie posted a quarterly loss on Friday that was three times what was expected: $2.3 billion (yup, that's a B), or $2.54 a share for the quarter that ended June 30th.  Analysts had expected a loss ...

The Mt. Washington Valley is a popular vacation destination.  Surrounded by 750,000 acres of the White Mountain National Forest and set at the base of Mt. Washington (the highest peak in the Northeast) the Valley is just 2-1/2 hours from Boston.  But did you know that this tourist community is al...

Twenty one years I've been doing real estate.  I'll be honest, I was going stale.  Nothing seemed to excite me anymore, the clients all melded together like one big morass...I was definitely in a slump! And that's difficult to do in this wonderful scenic area - the Mt. Washington Valley! Then I w...

I've always been a big proponent of green techonologies and reusable energy.  In recent months, since we are in process of building a new home, I've researched some of the green methods for feasibility, such as geothermal heating and solar panels.  Unfortunately, what I've discovered is that the ...