The Mountain States Hospice Program needs more volunteers to serve Washington, Sulllivan, Carter, and Greene Counties. A new training program, like the one that got me involved, will be held on February 27-28, 8:30-12-30, at the hospice office, 101 Med Tech Park, Suite 100. (This is just off
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02/22/2012
A useful guide to average lifespan of home systems is from Old House Web, which has a lot of interesting articles and ideas for people who live in, or who want to live in, older homes. A building inspector will probably give you his estimate of useful life of various components, and this is a
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02/22/2012
Single family homes are often not exactly that these days, at least not in the traditional sense of parents and children in one house, their parents in their own home or in some sort of senior living setting, adult children starting out on their own after college, etc. More often than not l
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02/20/2012
MILITARY DISCOUNTS - While there aren't nearly as many veterans (active, reserve and retired) in Northeast Tennessee as we had in Maryland when Mike taught at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and much of my business was from the military hospitals, this long list is bound to r
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02/20/2012
An elderly seller and a renovations contractor had an unexpected meshing of needs, in one of my many serendipities. I remembered it recently because I am meeting other sellers who face challenges similar to hers. A related post for people anticipating the challenge of down-sizing in stressful
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02/20/2012
Down-sizing isn’t easy to do, and anything that makes it easier is worth remembering. One thing that I’ve found helpful is doing a tour of the home with the owner, making a digital record of furniture, pictures, dishes, everything – even knick-knacks . This serves several functions. ·
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02/20/2012
BRIARWOOD is a great neighborhood for walking. Preparing for the open house at 3305 Bondwood on Sunday, I walked a couple of blocks of Briarwood on Saturday afternoon, passing out flyers and the ever-popular refrigerator magnet calendars and business cards with calendar on the back – meeting i
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02/18/2012
Maybe you've driven by and admired the house and the neighborhood. Here's your chance. The home at 3305 Bondwood, will be open from 2-5 tomorrow, February 19. (Of course you can call me any time to set up a private showing, but I'd love to see you there.) Bring a friend or tell your friends
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02/18/2012
A high school reunion provided a coincidental link between my old home town and my new one. In Nacogdoches, Texas, for the 50th Nacogdoches High School reunion, I had a few minutes to spare and drove by the house on Pine Street in which my parents had lived a long time ago. The huge magnolias h
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01/13/2012
ACTIVE RAIN – GREAT FIRST WEEK OF 2012 The first week of 2012 got me off to a really good start with Active Rain. I finally topped 100,000 – a very small milestone for some of you but it feels good to me, due partly to the December 2011 blogging challenge, which was fun. I started SEREND
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01/06/2012