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Realtor, writer, photographer. . living in, working in and loving life in St. Paul, Minnesota. Author of the St. Paul Real Estate blog and St. Paul Photos.
Minnesota ranks 10th in unemployment with an adjusted unemployment rate of 7 percent.* I like to think of it as being in the top ten states with the lowest unemployment rate. The lowest unemployment rate is in North Dakota, 3.7 percent, and the highest is Nevada where the unemployment rate is more than twice as high as ours at 14.4 percent. The national average is 9.6 percent. Continue Reading
I am not sure what happened to September but my calendar indicates that it is no more. I won’t miss it. September wasn’t very good to me, and I am happy to put it behind me and move on. I am also excited about chocolate.
TCManWalking is a Twitter name. His real name is Chris. I met him in person about a month ago. Chris is homeless. Up until very recently he was living in his car. He had a job and a home and enjoyed a kind of middle class lifestyle.
People have all sorts of attitudes about homelessness. Chris is not mentally ill or chemically dependent. He was what we call a “white collar” worker. Continue Reading
This post is created from questions my children and some of my younger home buyers ask. There is a learning curve to maintaining a home. Everything wears out one day but there are some simple things that can be done that cost nothing or almost nothing that can help preserve your home and some of the appliances in it. Continue Reading
St. Paul is in an urban forest: According to the city, we have over 500,000 trees.
The city has a landmark tree program and each year significant trees can be nominated to become landmark trees. The point of the program is to help us to appreiciate the trees and learn about them. Continue Reading
Sometimes I am not sure if the recession is a roller coaster or if it is just the way the news media reports economic news. On the one hand good news seems to stimulate spending, but on the other hand it seems like really bad news comes out one day and the next day the same news gets a kind of ray-of-sunshine slant.
Bleak is a good word to describe the current housing market. Continue Reading
I went to the Minnesota State Fair last night, and I am a little slow getting my post out this morning because I kind of over did it. I ate things that a grown up probably should not eat. I walked a few miles and took a lot of photos. There is nothing like the state fair. I tried to find one photo that sums it all up, but I couldn’t so I have two photos. Continue Reading
It only took a couple of hours for the first ever Minnesota Blogger’s conference to fill up, and now there is a waiting list.
But if you missed out, don’t forget about Word Camp MSP. Continue Reading
We had another heat advisory this week — one of those soupy days with temperatures in the 90’s and dew points in the 70’s so that we get a heat index of 100 and something. We really shouldn’t complain about it.
It was -14 when I took this photo. I don’t miss the cold at all.
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Beagles, and hounds in general, don’t take well to the command “heel.” They’re far more interested in where their very finely honed olfactory sense leads them, nose to ground and straining at the lead. Our Beagle-buddy Daisy is no exception. Continue Reading