Prior to Getting Started do Some Brainstorming
by Noel Wortinger Many people have a ranch home. There are actually many ranch home renovation ideas ... about home renovation, you will need plans. After all, you’re going to live in this home for a long ... plans for your house, floor plans, and blueprint, to suit your exceptional tastes, and make [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 15:43:14
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Thursday’s New Home Community Picks
New Home Communities in Utah, Colorado, and Arizona As we continue our efforts to provide homebuyers with up-to-date new housing information, ... home communities, buyers can choose from a variety of customizable ranch-style and two-story floor ... floor-plans to choose from ranging between 1,148 to 1,273 square-feet. Located northwest of I-25 [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 19:31:37
Dogged by near misses
Well, I went off on another house hunting trip. *(*actually I saw this house last Friday... )I figured I'd drag you along again. Why not.. ... in the day, but then we pulled up in front of this nice and neat ranch style rambler.Ramblers look a bit understated, but I have learned that out of all the floor plans in SLC, a traditional "ranch [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 07:06:00
Barratt Properties in Receivership
This is a picture of Barratt's community in Encinitas that never got built ... KTGY, the contemporary-styled neighborhood’s three floor plans encompass 1,198 to 1,903 square feet ... that their five remaining houses and ten lots in Bressi Ranch in Carlsbad, this Encintas community called [more...]
Date: 2008-08-18 21:39:47
We’re watching — and we know
OK, so … with the same fervor that Dick Cheney shows in shooting captive birds that are provided for his sport — territory defined, wings clipped, diets and movement controlled — Israel is in its fourth day of slamming into Gaza going after Hamas … old folks, little kids and whoever is in between are dying. No news there, is there? [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 01:57:47
We Can’t Give Away Homes At $100,000
The Denver Post reports from Colorado. “Real-estate agents note that resort communities have certain advantages over the Front Range and much of the ... or the wholesale abandoning of value,’ said Doug Landin, managing broker at Eagle Ranch. ‘I think ... Ranch is still selling for at least 90 percent of asking price, Landin said.” “But a 10 percent [more...]
Date: 2008-07-23 17:38:26
DrumBeat: August 10, 2008
Even Giants Are Being Hurt By Rising Energy Prices In general it may be true that if we were willing - and in some cases able - to pay more for ... to discuss OPEC-style gas group TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran and Algeria are expected to discuss the formation of an OPEC-style gas group during a visit by Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to Tehran [more...]
Date: 2008-08-10 13:40:12
A Most Surreal Afternoon
I forced myself to get to bed last night around 1:00 AM, as I'd set the alarm for 7: ... is immediately adjacent and is a large open floor plan two story house that is filled with a cafeteria ... the Middle Sister (his favorite) has plans to spend the week after Christmas with him.They had chartered [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 05:20:00
6 Curious College Donations
Universities are always looking for cash from their alumni (or anyone else with a big enough checkbook) ... and a current plan to raise an additional $1.75 billion, Princeton knows how to bring in cash ... , an alumnus of Princeton University and its varsity crew team, described the crowded narrow canal [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 14:54:00
Johnson Ranch Community - Queen Creek AZ
Nestled close to the San Tan Mountains, Johnson Ranch is designed in a desert style – open spaces, mountain views, friendly neighbors, ... popular master plans for quality and value, Johnson Ranch was recently ranked eighth among the 20 top ... affordable real estate, and great weather. Johnson Ranch is located in the southeast community [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 22:57:37
Victory for Decency: Pig Sex Orgy Cancelled; Piggies Furious
Finally, “Obama Inauguration Pig Sex Orgy” is called off after thousands of calls poured in Sodomy Slings’ of the sort that perverts were hoping to use at an orgy scheduled for tonight in the second floor conference rooms of the Doubletree Hotel Washington just blocks from the White House; thank the Doubletree (202-232-7000) and parent company [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 18:28:34
From A Buyer’s Perspective, The World Is Their Oyster
The Denver Post reports from Colorado. “While there are plenty of resale and foreclosure options out there, ... In response, the 50-year-old company, one of the nation’s largest homebuilders, is downsizing floor plans ... homebuilders are enticing buyers with brand-new smaller and less expensive homes. Floor-plan sizes [more...]
Date: 2008-11-16 17:33:07
At the End of a Long Day
The photograph tells you where I saw the sun go down Wednesday night ... , expensive airport lunch. At gate, sit on floor for almost two hours because it’s the only place near ... Ranch. Rushed in and meet a few people, some of whom have appeared on the blog. Sent out to drive [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 05:50:34
Going Home to the Sixties: Pacifica Family Rediscovers the Good Life
Two years ago, Pacifica residents Dave and Kathy Hall inherited a vintage patio home in Tustin, ... . The house is nearly finished and will be featured in an upcoming issue of Atomic Ranch Magazine ... in a tract of modest houses built in 1968 in the Eichler style, under the brand name of Broadmoor Homes [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 00:38:26
January 15th Cometh, then Part 15... and before...
Spring to Winter, once again, my Big KitKats. A balmy 60 degrees today, then bam and slam, the winds whipped up, and now its heading down into the twenties...Ferocious-twitching tail, my Lovely Big Cats, the Kougar is about to begin Chapter Ten, the last Chapter of * HER INSATIABLE DARK HEROES *, which will be available from Siren-BookStrand, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 06:20:00
Public Lands Newsletter
Plenty to read and speculate on in this issue. PUBLIC LANDS NEWS BULLETIN #11: November 24, 2008 Dear Subscriber: This bulletin reports on the following: * TRANSITION BEGINS WITH LONG LIST OF DOI POSSIBLES * OMNIBUS BILL GOES DOWN THE TUBES, UNTIL JANUARY * BLM MEETS DEADLINES WITH OIL SHALE REGS; LAWSUIT SURE * MS [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 18:19:01
Lance Armstrong's Hill Country Hideaway
SELLER: Lance ArmstrongLOCATION: Deadman's Hole, Dripping Springs, TXPRICE: $12,000,000SIZE: 4,241 square feet, 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms (total0DESCRIPTION: Spectacular resort like ranch with 447.8 acres (hcad). Ownership in Deadman's ... , beautiful grassy pastures & 7 miles of hike/bike trails. Fab 4bd, 4ba main house on hilltop w/ exquisite [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 15:10:00
GINNY BATES: FILLIN' UP AND SPILLIN' OVER
Here's another installment of my Great American Lesbian Novel (in progress), Ginny Bates. If you are new to reading GB, go to the section in the right-hand column labeled Ginny Bates to read background and find out how to catch up.Summer 2014On Monday, all visitors left except for Cathy, who stayed an extra day [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 15:54:00
Remembering... Happy New Year, Part 5 ~
A glorious good evening, my Big Beautiful Cats, the crescent moon hangs like a lemon slice, only cast in gold. This morning, the Kougar fatigued herself with a trip into town to stock up on doggie food, electrical cords and hardware stuffies, etc. ~ before the temps drop again [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 05:13:00
No longer lost in translation
6a00e552403d2f88330105368edce8970b-500wi I told you guys a couple of days ago about Shania buying a ranch and asked if anyone spoke French ... and took the time to translate for me. Thank you Mary-Ellen! Shania Twain creates a cozy ranch ... -de-Prez into a ???sombre and authentic??? ranch at which to relax. (under photograph [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 16:06:27
Christmas Potpourri and Holiday Shopping Update
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to you and your loved ones. Here are a few headline news reports of interest from the past couple days. U.S. Store Traffic Fell 24% on Pre-Christmas Weekend U.S. retail store traffic fell 24 percent last weekend from a year earlier as deepened discounts failed to entice consumers to spend during what may be the [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 04:02:08
Weeknight Meals, Laptop Lunches & A Meme
I never thought I’d be the type of person who got home from work in the evening and made whatever would get in my belly the fastest for dinner, but that has been my situation lately. Right now we leave for work at 7:20AM and usually get home around 6:15-6:30PM. During the day I get it in my head that I’m going to get home, exercise, make [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 01:13:34
Christmas Potpourri and Holiday Shopping Update
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to you and your loved ones. Here are a few headline news reports of interest from the past couple days.U.S. Store Traffic Fell 24% on Pre-Christmas WeekendU.S. retail store traffic fell 24 percent last weekend from a year earlier as deepened discounts failed to entice consumers to spend during what may be the [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 03:52:00
Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 6/15/08
Filed under: Estates, Celebrity ShoppingFrom Celebrity Big Time Listings: --Retired major league baseball player Lenny Dykstra has placed his eight-bedroom mansion in the Lake Sherwood area of Thousand Oaks, Calif. on the market for $24.95 million. Dykstra bought the home less than a year ago from Wayne Gretsky for $18.5 million [more...]
Date: 2008-06-15 09:01:00
We have had a few busy days here
Yesterday was a wet day for Miss Ping. First thing in the morning, ... that is my take on it. So she rips down her Pull Up and pees all over the floor!!!!!! Not a great start ... we walked. We get there and Ping is not doing anything. Ever since we were away at the Pinegrove Ranch [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 04:57:00
The Age of Scarcity
Civilian Death Toll Rises After Second Day of Air Strikesby Hazem Balousha in Gaza City, Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem - The Guardian (UK)Death toll moves above 300. Calls for investigation after seven students at UN college die in missile attacksTo the doctors at the Shifa hospital in Gaza City it was another body on a chaotically busy day [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 13:07:00
Home Based Businesses Isnt All Fun and Games
by Thomas Griffin Do you often daydream about working at home? Before you hand in your letter of resignation, please read what Jan K ... to ponder before you begin your pursuit of a work-at-home job. Working at Home Isn”t All Fun and Games I enjoy telling people that I “work at home.” I can see that wistful look in their eyes, and I can hear [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 09:33:07
Home Based Businesses Isnt All Fun and Games
by Thomas Griffin Do you often daydream about working at home? Before you hand in your letter of resignation, please read what Jan K ... to ponder before you begin your pursuit of a work-at-home job. Working at Home Isn”t All Fun and Games I enjoy telling people that I “work at home.” I can see that wistful look in their eyes, and I can hear [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 09:25:30
Home Based Businesses Isnt All Fun and Games
by Thomas Griffin Do you often daydream about working at home? Before you hand in your letter of resignation, please read what Jan K ... to ponder before you begin your pursuit of a work-at-home job. Working at Home Isn”t All Fun and Games I enjoy telling people that I “work at home.” I can see that wistful look in their eyes, and I can hear [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 15:59:11
Home Based Businesses Isnt All Fun and Games
by Thomas Griffin Do you often daydream about working at home? Before you hand in your letter of resignation, please read what Jan K ... to ponder before you begin your pursuit of a work-at-home job. Working at Home Isn”t All Fun and Games I enjoy telling people that I “work at home.” I can see that wistful look in their eyes, and I can hear [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 14:25:56
Home Based Businesses Isnt All Fun and Games
by Thomas Griffin Do you often daydream about working at home? Before you hand in your letter of resignation, please read what Jan K ... to ponder before you begin your pursuit of a work-at-home job. Working at Home Isn”t All Fun and Games I enjoy telling people that I “work at home.” I can see that wistful look in their eyes, and I can hear [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 10:21:01
Home Based Businesses Isnt All Fun and Games
by Thomas Griffin Do you often daydream about working at home? Before you hand in your letter of resignation, please read what Jan K ... to ponder before you begin your pursuit of a work-at-home job. Working at Home Isn”t All Fun and Games I enjoy telling people that I “work at home.” I can see that wistful look in their eyes, and I can hear [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 08:41:34
Random Mommy Musings
100 Things I'm Thankful For, I listed a diverse range of things I am thankful for right now in my life. From the kitchen...my fridge has been taken over by a 30-pound Turkey and a 9-pound ham. Yum. I am wearing...jeans, my favorite hoody, socks, shoes and a warm blanket. I am creating.. [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 22:01:01
How Much Lower Can They Go?
The Chicago Tribune reports from Illinois. “Home buyers and sellers in the Chicago area just can’t agree on the price of a house ... , but they’re being slow.’” “Denise Dominici put her Romeoville tri-level house on the market in April ... from renters, reduced the price to $235,900 and offered to throw in the furnishings. To her, the house [more...]
Date: 2008-08-27 15:16:47
2008, in Review
2008 was a year of BIG changes for me: I left my full time position at Glaxstar for the wonderful (and most-times stressful) world of freelancing; I moved 200 miles south from a shared house ‘Cherrytree’ in Walsall, West Midlands to Littlehampton, West Sussex on the south coast; And I proposed to my lovely girlfriend [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 22:42:18
Commuters Dilemma on Inauguration Day
In a little less than two weeks, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the first African-American president in our nation’s history. Television networks, cable and radio stations, and of course news Web sites will be buzzing reporting the events from the day, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 14:52:46
Breaking News: Victory for Decency: Homosexual ‘Pig Sex’ Organizers Cancel Orgy at Doubletree Hotel
Finally, “Obama Inauguration Pig Sex Orgy” is called off after thousands of calls poured in ... in the second floor conference rooms of the Doubletree Hotel Washington just blocks from the White House ... Hotel just blocks from the White House in Washington, D.C. Here is the contact information [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 16:34:58
CHAPTER 34
#fullpost{display:inline;}CHAPTER 34Captain Jeff Hunter's assignment was all but completed in the Black Hills, just about very Indian was now on a reservation. The task itself was most distasteful to Jeff, perhaps it was time to resign his Captaincy and become a civilian again [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 17:01:00
Floor-Plan Friday
Floor Plans Available in Arizona, California and Florida It’s Friday again and time for another round of New Homes Section floor plan picks. Below is a little bit of information and quick links to six single-family new home floor plans ... and for more information about Trend Homes at Power Ranch and this new home floor plan. Price per square [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 05:39:24
Christmas Potpourri
Update on headline news and happy holiday wishes, courtesy of Mish. Thanks Mish! Christmas Potpourri and Holiday Shopping Update Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to you and your loved ones. Here are a few headline news reports of interest from the past couple days. U.S. Store Traffic Fell 24% on Pre-Christmas Weekend U.S [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 05:25:54
25 Years Later, America Fails Lessons of Beirut Marine Barracks Bombing
By Debbie Schlussel Twenty-five years ago, today, at 6:22 a.m., Hezbollah terrorists--with help from Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Liberation Organization and Hafez El-Assad's Syria--murdered 241 U.S. Marines while they slept in barracks in Beirut. A bomb more powerful than 12, [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 05:49:26
Home Based Businesses Isnt All Fun and Games
by Thomas Griffin Do you often daydream about working at home? Before you hand in your letter of resignation, please read what Jan K ... is, the minuses do exist—in abundance. It is not my purpose here to ruin all your hopes or plans to establish [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 09:46:01
Home Based Businesses Isnt All Fun and Games
by Thomas Griffin Do you often daydream about working at home? Before you hand in your letter of resignation, please read what Jan K ... is, the minuses do exist—in abundance. It is not my purpose here to ruin all your hopes or plans to establish [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 10:20:33
Home Based Businesses Isnt All Fun and Games
by Thomas Griffin Do you often daydream about working at home? Before you hand in your letter of resignation, please read what Jan K ... is, the minuses do exist—in abundance. It is not my purpose here to ruin all your hopes or plans to establish [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 09:47:22
New Condos Outside of Calgary - Updated for Jan ‘09
AIRDRIE: BREEZE AT AIRDRIE: By Generations Group of Companies. Three-bedroom townhomes or one-, two-or three-bedroom apartment-style condos from low$200,000s.At 2370 Bayside Rd. S. W.,Airdrie. COURTYARDS OF KING’S HEIGHTS: Gardenside condos from$194,900, plus GST. At Kingsland Road in Airdrie. COPPERSTONE VILLAGE: By Jade Landing Holdings [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 20:59:20
Floor-Plan Friday
Floor Plans in California, Georgia, and Arizona The following is a collection of floor plans that are currently available for purchase from home ... , Georgia. The Chastain home plan is a split bedroom ranch-style floor plan with four bedrooms, three ... builders in Georgia, Arizona, and California. The plans that we’ve listed below vary in size [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 20:34:26
Wildcatter Weekly, January 8, 2009
Legislative Alert! The U.S. Senate is attempting to hold a weekend vote on an omnibus public lands package that could severely limit energy ... boundaries. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) plans to bring the bill to the Senate floor [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 00:25:04
California Fire News - Updates in your mail box
h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! important;} div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div ul { list-style-type:square; padding-left:1em; } div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist ... Floor In House FireTwo firefighters fell through the floor of a burning two-story home in Los Feliz [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 11:07:00
A Monopoly Game-Like Reliance In Florida
The Miami Herald reports from Florida. “The top job-loss state in the nation. Shrinking wages. Collapsing population growth ... t buy a house.’” “In unusually plainspoken terms, the experts struggled with the data to figure [more...]
Date: 2008-07-18 14:59:38
More Than 100 Reasons to Vote Against Obama
More Than 100 Reasons to Vote Against Barack Obama A great job and a big hat-tip to Father West for putting this together! Below is a good list of reasons not to vote for Barack Obama. They are not listed in order of importance. I list the life issues, which I think are primary, toward the end [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 04:04:26
