Realman

Heck with soda, it's Friday and I'm ready for my weekly Barley Pop!It seems like it's been forever since I've had an "easy" week where I've said "Friday already?".When I woke up this morning I thought it was Saturday. The realization that It's back to the salt mine this morning was hard on me. Ha...

I think all of us long for home often. Home may be the traditional house across town, it maybe a place we dream of, and/or we may be thinking of our eternal home. When I get tired of North Dakota's long winters I even find myself singing along with Lynyrd Skynyrd even though I've never been to Al...

The short answer to Is an Illusion Sufficient is NO!Why do you need a Real Estate professional when buying or selling a home? Because the business of Real Estate is full of illusion.If you are a real Estate buyer and you chose not to have a Real Estate professional represent you... god help you! ...

Of course I wouldn't normally know what a bad hair day is because I don't have much hair to speak of.However I did have a bit of a bad hair day yesterday. I grow what little I have (along with my beard) every winter and shave it off in the Spring. Saturday was the day. I enlisted Carol to help cu...

We knew it was coming but not exactly when... when ended up being yesterday. Jon set up a great way to propose to Tina at the church which truly was the heart and foundation of their relationship.We could not be happier. Jonathan is a wonderful man and he is head over heals for Tina. It will not ...

Sometimes it's pretty easy for me to spot our family life in Timmothy's cartoons and I'm pretty sure this one is about me. I have no doubt that Timmothy is wondering what happened to my high level of energy.Between a year of dealing with sciatic pain that required spinal injections and then a fal...

I have to admit that we inhabitants of the Northern States go a little crazy when the weather breaks, even for a day.We try to get so much in on those first warm days we probably look like this:Now that I think about it I had my first hart attack on one of those days. My wife reminded me that I h...

I had such a busy day today that I wasn't able to post until this evening. I couldn't let Timmothy's cartoon pass buy. It was a good day but very busy. The highlight of my work day was helping a military couple close on their new home in Louisiana. Louisiana requires witnesses on their mortgage p...

The lasagna was great! Now six hours later and a couple of walks with the dog I'm still stuffed, so for diner tonight we are doing popcorn.As many of you know we once had guinea pigs in our house and my daughter liked dressing them up. I've always liked these Easter pictures of them. As you know ...

Because this is Good Friday I am going to take this message a different way then I normally would. I am going the "Faith" route although it could easily be applied to Offer To Purchase Agreements as well.Picking out a few words from  James 4:2 "You do not have, because you do not ask".And also fr...