Parental Priorities: (Temporary) Lull in New Listings, at Least for Families With School-Age Kids For parents of school-age kids, the next week is, shall we say, “transitional.” Gone is the schedule that has held sway, more or less, since last Fall. In its place . . . it all depends. Summer Camp . . . Summer...Read More
Smart Landscaping, or, “What a Difference Three Weeks Makes!” The “it” in question would be the home — make that homes — at 2545 Huntington in St. Louis Park’s Fern Hill neighborhood. See, “New on the Market: 2545 Huntington for $4.995 Million(!).” What you can’t tell from the two photos is that the row of...Read More
What’s a “San Francisco Summer?” Sort of Like a New York Minute “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” –Mark Twain Clearly, Twain didn’t know the best time to visit San Francisco. That would be September – October, when the adjacent Pacific warms up usually chilly San Francisco — often into the...Read More
Eat Your Heart Out, San Diego! Happily, this past week would be one of those (ten weeks): highs in the low 80’s, lots of sun, (relatively) how humidity. With more on tap the next several days. Enjoy! (Note: any resemblance between the Lake Calhoun photo (above) and this blog’s masthead (top) . . . is...Read More
With school now out for the year or close (my 3 kids finish at noon today), you’d figure that households with school-age kids would downshift into a more mellow, Summer-time mode. Not if any of those are kids are heading to camp in the next few days. Call it, “the storm before the calm” (note: the illustration...Read More
