Saline (Ann Arbor, MI)
By Missy Caulk, Savvy Realtor - Ann Arbor Real Estate
(Missy Caulk TEAM)
If you live in Ann Arbor or Saline or anywhere in Washtenaw County for that matter, you have probably seen the Goodyear Blimp flying over. It is actually called a "Ship". It parks (is that the right word?) at the Ann Arbor airport. This week it has been here for the NASCAR race this weekend at MIS Speedway in the Irish Hills area. Ann Arbor residents are use to seeing the Blimp, it has been coming here as long as I can remember. When our kids were small we always took them to see it, and they would get so excited. One of our children "had to have a Blimp" model for his birthday. It was cool, lighted up on the sides just like the real one.  It always shows up for the Buick OPEN and the Michigan vs Ohio State football games.   The crew told us one year they "love to park," in Ann Arbor as...
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By Susan Walters
(Keller Williams Realty, Ann Arbor, MI)
Recently I blogged about a teasing letter we received at our home regarding awards night at Saline High School that suggested our son was up for an award and strongly encouraged our attendance.  Friends of his had received the same letter but they were actually LIKELY to receive awards so we were just confused.  My son and I attended anyway, just in case. Kevin is a kid who has learned extraordinarily well, has avoided the typical temptations of youth, besides computer games (death to computer games!) and a senior year girlfriend (we like her - she is motivated, technical like him,  success-oriented no matter what it takes, and adorable).  He has endured psychological testing to determine that he is decidedly not ADD and that his only real problem is boredom and "you can't make me do it...
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By Susan Walters
(Keller Williams Realty, Ann Arbor, MI)
Tonight I actually stopped at our rural mailbox and took the mail out. I remember 32 years ago when getting the mail was such a big treat.  My husband and I had no credit history, no accounts, didn't live anywhere long enough to have associations - we were blissfully free of the mail assault.  The only mail we got was mail we wanted. Now, 99% of the mail we get is nearly or completely unnecessary.  We pay and monitor accounts online but keep getting paper statements since most online statements make NO sense; we need the paper for clarification but don't open them unless there is an issue.  As for advertisements for goods and services, we shop when we want, where we want, by word-of-mouth, and buy only what we need.  Little by little, we began to disregard the mail completely.  (Anyone ...
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By Susan Walters
(Keller Williams Realty, Ann Arbor, MI)
First let me define the title.Fiddlers ReStrung is a Saline, MI high school group of select musicians who perform under the guidance and regulations of Saline's Community Education department and Saline Area schools.  Audition is mandatory and many do not make the cut.  It is not a club, though at the younger levels that feed into the group, all levels of abilities are welcome without qualification.  Go to www.fiddlersrestrung.com for all kinds of pertinent information.Next, there is my son Kevin, who has been a member of this group for 3 years.  Before I go into my accolades of him, I must mention that as noted above, there is an audition process and he was defeated there the first year of tryouts.  The second year, tail figuratively between his legs, he auditioned and succeeded.Since ...
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By Susan Walters
(Keller Williams Realty, Ann Arbor, MI)
My daughter is somewhere over the Atlantic right about now, February 18, 2008, if all is going well.  Tonight she left for Paris for a 4 month study-abroad program via the University of Michigan.I remember the day she graduated from kindergarten and how I cried to another parent.  I knew these years would fly by and that mother laughed, yet they have.  As each school year would begin, it seemed an eternity to the end, then suddenly the end was in sight and another year was just around the corner.Each year I took pictures of our three kids on the first day of school, decked out with new backpacks and their finest new clothes - not that you could tell when they were pre-distressed from the factory.  I was mocked the year that I made them all turn around so I could get a photo of the backp...
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By Susan Walters
(Keller Williams Realty, Ann Arbor, MI)
Today is our only son's eighteenth birthday.  How did we get here so quickly?  I remember the day we sent him off to kindergarten, having completed the crying the night before, wondering if the kids would like him despite his speech impediment.  We wondered if that meant he wasn't intelligent, wouldn't be able to socialize properly, wouldn't have a "normal" life.Here we are in his senior year of high school, and...he is wildly intelligent, he is wildly sociable, and he DOES NOT have a normal life.  That speech impediment?  Yeah, he still has that, but they dismissed him in eighth grade from speech therapy with the only thing left to do being to remove the British accent he acquired while we lived in England for two years.  It was impossible, they eventually decided.  A British accent is...
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By Susan Walters
(Keller Williams Realty, Ann Arbor, MI)
Boy, I would love to write a great blog tonight.  Like the one I wrote last night that disappeared into thin air when I was playing with the images of turkey, chili, soup, and "abundance of bowls" that I was trying to insert into the blog.  I have a lot to learn....Tonight I am going to keep it really simple and talk about the Fiddlers ReStrung concert that is going to held at Saline, Michigan's state-of-the-art community theater in Saline High School on Sunday, December 2nd.  I spent about 7 hours there today doing stage setup while the musicians did sound check.  We yelled over each other, tiptoed among the wires, poinsettias in hand, and debated where the Saline Fire Department "Toys For Tots" donations should be placed.  There will be actual US Marines there to accept the donations;...
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