Saturday, December 9, 2006
Winterizing a Hobby Greenhouse
A small hobby greenhouse is an ideal way to extend the growing season as much as three weeks on each end. Winterizing a small hobby greenhouse for continued winter use can present a challenge in areas such as ours. Our average minimum winter temperature is -9ºC (15.8ºF) for January. At these temperatures I found it was not feasible to keep the greenhouse going year round even with the
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Monday, December 4, 2006
Frustrations with AWOL agents!
The thing I hate most about being a realtor is dealing with agents and sellers who do not return phone calls regarding their property for sale. Why wouldn't an agent return calls when someone calls them regarding their listing? It makes sense to me! I'm in real estate because I enjoy it and it pays well. I've got buyers and we've made an offer on some acreage (we've faxed, emailed and called) and we cannot get a reply from the agent or the seller (I've left them messages at home and sent the offer in the mail)! I'm frustrated and hopefully, my clients (the buyers) won't think that I'm doing a bad job because of some bum who really shouldn't be a real estate agent! Ugh. May all bad agents go away please!
Jeff
Jeff
Sunday, December 3, 2006
Snow at the Beach?
Hey, I'll guess I'll start using this place finally.
Last week, Ocean Shores had snow which is a really rare occurrence here at the beach. The beach at one point was even covered in ice! The winter months provide the best storm watching. An excellent vantage point is the North Jetty, located at the southern tip of Ocean Shores, but be careful: winter storms can bring in 25 foot seas and high winds which can be very dangerous. Monster waves create a powerful roar which can be heard throughout Ocean Shores.
Ocean Shores News
It looks the City of Ocean Shores has finally come to their senses and are moving forward on spraying the lake and all the canals with a pesticide to kill all of the weeds this coming spring.
The city is also working on developing a skate park for the kids over at the North Bay Park. Fundraising efforts are underway and hopefully this summer, a new skate park will be up and running.
The City has also received federal funding to install a new roundabout at the main intersection of Point Brown and Chance A La Mer. It's about time!
If you haven't checked it out yet, http://www.cityofoceanshores.com/ has a New Virtual Tour set up on the website (top left corner on the homepage) so you can view the scenery of Ocean Shores and the North Beach area. CHECK IT OUT!
Don't forget to do some Holiday Shopping in Ocean Shores. From now through December 31st, turn in your participating Ocean Shores shop receipts and enter to win up to $500! It pays to shop in Ocean Shores.
So anyway, I'm Jeff Daniel and I'm a realtor at Coldwell Banker Ocean Beach Properties here in Ocean Shores. Most of the upcoming, down the road blogs will be about real estate and stuff, but for now, there's some news to get this thing going.
Later,
Last week, Ocean Shores had snow which is a really rare occurrence here at the beach. The beach at one point was even covered in ice! The winter months provide the best storm watching. An excellent vantage point is the North Jetty, located at the southern tip of Ocean Shores, but be careful: winter storms can bring in 25 foot seas and high winds which can be very dangerous. Monster waves create a powerful roar which can be heard throughout Ocean Shores.
Ocean Shores News
It looks the City of Ocean Shores has finally come to their senses and are moving forward on spraying the lake and all the canals with a pesticide to kill all of the weeds this coming spring.
The city is also working on developing a skate park for the kids over at the North Bay Park. Fundraising efforts are underway and hopefully this summer, a new skate park will be up and running.
The City has also received federal funding to install a new roundabout at the main intersection of Point Brown and Chance A La Mer. It's about time!
If you haven't checked it out yet, http://www.cityofoceanshores.com/ has a New Virtual Tour set up on the website (top left corner on the homepage) so you can view the scenery of Ocean Shores and the North Beach area. CHECK IT OUT!
Don't forget to do some Holiday Shopping in Ocean Shores. From now through December 31st, turn in your participating Ocean Shores shop receipts and enter to win up to $500! It pays to shop in Ocean Shores.
So anyway, I'm Jeff Daniel and I'm a realtor at Coldwell Banker Ocean Beach Properties here in Ocean Shores. Most of the upcoming, down the road blogs will be about real estate and stuff, but for now, there's some news to get this thing going.
Later,
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Climate Change & Global Warming
There is not a lot to do in the garden right now so I thought I would make a few entries on environmental issues that should be of interest to home gardeners. It's easy to sit back in our nice cosy homes, flip on whatever lights we want and enjoy a few hours in front of the tube. If we are cold we can crank up the heat. If we are hungry we can open our huge for some of us well stocked from our
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Harvest Time
Wild TurkeyMany of the area farmers are taking advantage of the recent dry weather to harvest their fields. When the field behind us is harvested we never know what interesting critters will appear. I was out checking the greenhouse and garden beds last week to see what final winerizing was needed when I caught sight of a wild turkey in the field. After getting my husband to see the bird, I
Monday, November 6, 2006
Walking the Talk
'Every one of us can do something to protect and care for our planet. We should live in such a way that makes a future possible.'- Thich Nhat HanhEverything we do in life leaves some type of an impact on Mother Earth. As gardeners we are likely more aware of environmental issues than others. Still it saddens me when I hear some gardeners wanting the latest and quickest kill quick fix for even
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