As we come to the end of July and to the end of the July Challenge July Active Rain Challenge - Savory Stories, I wanted to extend a huge thank you to all those who participated. The goal was to either get you to cook, or to get you to a gathering like a picnic or a barbeque and show us about it.
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07/31/2021
“We will have good days and we will have bad days. And seldom will we know which is which.” Truth is that there are no good times without bad times. And when we twist ourselves into pretzels to avoid bad times, we may just end up creating worse times. In fact, one of the best things that ever hap
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07/31/2021
It took just a matter of days and multiple offers, and now this wonderful 2 bedroom 2.5 bath home is is under contract. Close enough to Summerlin to enjoy all of it’s amenities and yet just outside the official boundary so as to not pay the Summerlin prices. Still less than 2 miles to the Red Ro
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07/30/2021
It seems that people need a laugh – especially on Friday. So, we dig back in to classic comedy scenes from a much better age of television. Some clips I found from past TV comedy when TV comedy meant something far different from today. A more innocent time and a time of real quality. Hope you enj
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07/30/2021
Sometimes people ask me how I learned so much about cooking. So, I will tell you (just between us). At the age of ten I started making dinners for myself. Why? Because my parents were both real estate brokers. You may not know this, but real estate brokers can work even 50 or 60 hours a week. So,
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07/29/2021
Food is like a relationship. While you want the things you like, the certainty if you will; you also like something new, the uncertainty or variety. Without that uncertainty, without that variety, life becomes mundane and too predictable. I will leave that comparison there and not delve too deep
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07/29/2021
Here we are. Most of us on Active Rain are real estate agents. Real estate agents get paid for producing results such as buying, selling or leasing real estate. We don’t get paid by the word. Still some agents seem to believe that they do get paid by the word. I recently asked someone about thems
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07/28/2021
This wonderful 2 bedroom 2.5 bath home is located in the Peccole Ranch community. Close enough to Summerlin to enjoy all of it’s amenities and yet just outside the official boundary so as to not pay the Summerlin prices. Still less than 2 miles to the Red Rock Casino, Downtown Summerlin, Las Vega
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07/27/2021
I chose to look at Mondays as Motivational Mondays. Some of us may be thinking that we need an extra cup of coffee or an extra hour of two of sleep. I choose to say, give me an extra shot of motivation and set me on my way. As the year keeps slipping by us, I am focusing one week at a time on cre
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07/26/2021
Taste. No - not like the recipes you love, but how you see and judge things. Taste. Sometimes 99 people can look at a painting and say it is a masterpiece. The 100th person says, “That’s garbage”. For every home we have, no matter how many people love that home, there is always someone that says,
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07/25/2021
