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Football tickets

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:48:00 +0000

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Reverse Mortgage SNAFU

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:44:00 +0000

I've been trying to repurchase a house from a bank since my father passed away, and despite my doing everything that they have asked me to do, every step of the way, they seem to be more interested in screwing me over than helping me pay back the reverse mortgage that was taken out on the home. I spent a year working to get them all of the paperwork and everything they said they needed, including taking their advice and having my name placed onto he title for the property. I was told at the time that if my name was on the title, then they could transform the reverse mortgage into a traditional forward mortgage that I could start making payments on. I did as they said, in good faith that they were actually trying to help me pay them back for the house and therefore I could keep my home. Instead when I called them back to let them know that I had done as they asked, QuitClaimed my father's share of the house to myself, they said that they could not do what they had said they could after all and that I was back to square one - HOWEVER this time without the ability to be a first time home buyer and without the ability to short sale the property to myself from my parent's estate. Today someone else from the company now handling the situation said that I can short sale to myself, and she had said that she would call me back today about that, but so far no call. I will see if she calls me tomorrow or not. I'm rather used, at this point, to them saying they will call me and then me waiting for a week, two weeks, several months with no call back as I was promised.

Its the little things that can cause pain

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:41:00 +0000

I had a moment of deep-set emotional sadness yesterday. I was in the back of the house cleaning off a chair and my stride trainer machine when I came across a little Teddy Bear that I had got for my dad when he was in the hospital for the last time. It was a completely unexpected find that brought back a lot of events surrounding that time and left me fighting back tears. It can be strange to be sitting here, surrounded by so many of my parents things and still doing the same sorts of tasks I had done for them, and I can be okay for so very long, then something as small and unimposing as a Teddy Bear can cause me to want to break down crying.

Business and legal stuff

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:11:00 +0000

While most people want to stay on the right side of the law, sometimes there comes a point where you find yourself in need of a good criminal lawyer to help you sort out something that happened, possibly with a friend or relative who made a poor choice and now finds themselves hoping for the best as they look for a good los angeles criminal defense lawyer to help them avoid prison time.

NoCuffs.com, the website for the Kavinoky Law Firm in both southern and northern California, has offices across the state of California, including criminal defense attorney los angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento and other cities.

Sometimes even the most innocent of intentions can land someone on the wrong side of things. It is not uncommon to see people starting up their own home based or small business in the wake of the economic crash, but very few of those who start their own business consider the many ways in which they may find themselves facing legal investigation and in serious need of the help of a california criminal lawyer that can help them avoid facing very serious charges for things such as accidental tax violations when they tried to do their own business taxes.

This is not to scare anyone from trying to start their own business, but it should certainly be something that is entered into with as much knowledge of the possible legal issues and pitfals as someone has of the product or service they wish to earn money from.

Presidental candidates: Who do you think is best for 2012 and why?

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:27:00 +0000

Okay, as a family caregiver, who do you think is the best candidate for 2012 and why do you think so?

I am going to continue to watch them, because as an undeclared I have not made up my mind based on a certain party, but I am interested in hearing what those who have made up their minds and why, as family caregivers, they like the ones they like.

So, let me know. Who do you think is best and why? Are there more than one you think would be good? What issues do you with they would focus on that they are not focusing on?

Family medical history for... zombies?

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:54:00 +0000

I got the Winter 2012 issue of Health Monitor in the mail a few days ago and last night I was reading through it when I noticed something... peculiar. One of their cover articles is "Update Your Family Medical History - Now". Paging through the booklet to the article we find the usual sorts of questions --

YOU
Date of Birth: ____________
Date of Death: ____________
Cause of Death: ____________
Illness: ____________

---- wait.... read that again. Date and cause of death for YOU!? Is this a family medical history for zombies?

I don't know about anyone else out there, but I am not exactly privy to the date and cause of my death, and I kind of don't want to be. I just hope it is a VERY long time from now and I'll have lived a full life when it happens. How the heck am I supposed to be filling out my own date and cause of death in a family medical history file?

Even with the peculiar information request on the questionnaire, they are right. It is important to create a family medical history.

Shark Week

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:17:00 +0000

Contribution by German Flowers

My husband loves watching Shark Week. He looks forward to watching it all summer. Shark Week is a whole week on Discovery Channel dedicated to shows about sharks. I do not know how they find that much information on sharks to take up a whole week with shark shows. My husband was worried that shark week was going to be when he was out of town for work and he might not be able to watch it. I told him to go to www.cannonsatellite.com to find the Discovery Channel schedule. He found out that shark week is the week before he has to go out of town and he will be able to watch most of the shark shows. I am not that interested in sharks and most of those shows make me scared to swim in the ocean. They do not even phase my husband though. He can watch all sorts of shark attacks and still have no problem swimming in the ocean. I am not really looking forward to hours of shark shows being recorded on our tv, but I guess it makes my husband happy.

Santa's gift basket

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:27:00 +0000

Gift baskets are a popular item to give for the holiday season. And they are an easy way to put together a last minute gift or a gift for an entire family.

Tuck small wrapped gifts into the basket, because everyone likes to have at least one little surprise that they can open for the holidays.

Keep dietary restrictions in mind. You don't want to give sugary things to a diabetic or salty things to someone watching their sodium intake.

If you are making a basket for a family, then be sure that you allow for enough of each item for the family that receives the basket that everyone gets at least one of each item type.

Another year drawing to a close

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:05:00 +0000

Here we are at the close of another year. Where I live the snow lays heavily on the ground and evenings are spent watching the glowing lights of the holiday tree in a darkened room.

I have the tree up, but did not have the emotional or mental strength to actually decorate it. Possibly tomorrow night, if I am not hurrying to get holiday presents made at the last minute or something. It is a bit of a blah year for me. My car is snowed in so I ain't gone anywhere since winter started, and that means that I have not had a chance to get any shopping done for anyone. Not that I am in a very festive mood, but I had at least had intentions to get out and go shopping for at least one item for each of the people in my family.

The holidays are just not much of a festive time when you live alone and there is no one other than the dogs to be decorating for. Or the cats, but the cats tend to climb into the tree and break the ornaments.

The Lemon Law and Attorneys

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:09:00 +0000

Buyers regret is one thing. Where you buy a new car and after you drive it off the lot you decide that you really wish you had gone for the little red convertible instead. In a case such as that you really should have taken more time to make your decision and picked the car that you truely do love before you made the purchase.

What if you love your new car, but as soon as you dive off the lot the car it starts to exhibit issues that were not known about before you purchased it? Not every car is what we expected to buy, but some can be genuine lemons that we really wish we had never seen.

That is why there is a law known as the Lemon Law. It assures that if you purchase a lemon you have certain rights. In California you can consult someone such as the California Lemon Law attorneys Shainfeld & Anvar to find out what your rights are when it comes to having purchased a lemon.

Shainfeld & Anvar are Lemon Law attorneys in California that assist car buyers in avoiding being ripped off by the purchase of a lemon, however, there are laws in every state to help protect you from purchasing a lemon instead of a car, so if you are not in California contact a local attorney that specializes in consumer rights. to find out what your rights as a buyer are.

Leaking roof vent

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:28:00 +0000

The last thing that anyone wants to find is damage to their home, trust me, I know. The men that built my parents' house were low bid contractors on a government contract after a fire did major damage to the area years ago and a disaster was declared. We were among the the lucky that got help rebuilding, but that came with some drawbacks.

Being a government assisted building project, it went to the lowest bidder. That left us with a house filled with construction flaws. The foundation had a large crack near the front door, the living room had a crack that went the entire length of the ceiling and turned to head for the front door where the living room went toward the hallway, the kitchen counters were pulled out from the wall behind them, and it was impossible to put up corner shelves because you could not find an actually squared corner in the house.

The worse I think, aside from the major structural cracks, was the improperly sealed fan in the kitchen that caused water to leak into the house during thaw or heavy rains. There are clear signs of leaking on the walls in both the kitchen and the bathroom where they share the wall with the faulty kitchen fan vent. The walls have been painted, but the damage is still there and even after the State sent someone that was supposed to have repaired the vent last year it still leaks.

If I save the house, I am going to need to get upstairs and see what the attic looks like where the water has made its way into the house all these years. I'm a bit scared to see what that is going to be like, even though the guy from the state assured me that there was no damage. He had also assured me he had fixed the leak.

The Twelve Days of Christmas - or caregiving, or....

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:33:00 +0000

I'm in a weird mood right now, and rather sleepy, so I present to you The Twelve Days of Christmas... or is that The Twelve Days of Caregiving?? I know from experience this can all be fit into about 12 hours of being a caregiver, so, for all of you that work so hard to make life a little easier for those who you love - this Filkd classic is for you!

On the first day of Christmas my caregiver gave to me...
An open heart with lots of love

On the second day of Christmas my caregiver gave to me...
An open heart with lots of love
two kisses on the cheek

On the second day of Christmas my caregiver gave to me...
An open heart with lots of love
two kisses on the cheek
Three home cooked meals

(and so on...)

Four healthy snacks
Five warm blankets
Six assistance's standing
Seven loving embraces
Eight cups of water
Nine medications
Ten errands a running
Eleven times came a running
Twelve I love yous

Happy Holidays

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:44:00 +0000

The holidays are here, looming just around the corner and moving closer with each day. In fact, today is the 13th of November, which means that there are now exactly 12 days to Christmas.

How do you plan to make this year special for a senior in your life? How have you made holidays past special for them?

Okay, Alaska, you can get warm again now

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:44:00 +0000

According to the National Weather Service in Anchorage Alaska, the temperature yesterday in the Anchorage area hit a record temperature of -8, beating out the 1963 record value of -7. The normal for this time of year is a minimum temperature of 15 degrees F, making it -23 degrees colder than the average cold, and -11 degrees colder than November 19, 2010.

And where I am it runs ten degrees colder, so it was -18 here, which was COLD - ran me out of heating fuel and I can't get more until at least Monday.

Scrubs for Caregivers

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:19:00 +0000

If you would like to get scrubs that you can use in providing care to your loved one, then Blue Sky Scrubs would like for you to take a look at the selection of scrubs they have to offer.

Blue Sky Scrubs has nursing scrubs for sale online as well as Scrub Hats that can be used for keeping hair out of the way while preparing meals or during other daily tasks. Anyone with long hair should check out the "pony hats" that allow ponytails to be tucked into a little pouch at the back of the scrub hat.

You can see all of the products that Blue Sky Scrubs has to offer at http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/Scrubs-for-Men, and browsing through their products listings. Whether you are looking for comfortable scrub pants that you can wear wound the house, or a professional looking jacket while you and your loved one are out and about, Blue Sky Scrubs have a lot of styles, patterns and colors from which to choose.

Blue Sky Scrubs even has children sizes, so Grandma's little nurse could have a special set of nurse scrubs that they can wear as they help out. Perfect for any child that likes to help take care of Grandma or Grandpa.

November is National Family Caregiver Month

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:49:00 +0000

Did you know that November is National Family Caregiver month?

In November of 1997 President Clinton signed the first Presidential proclamation that would mark November as National Family Caregiver Month.

This year President Barack Obama released the following proclomation:

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Presidential Proclamation -- National Family Caregivers Month, 2011

NATIONAL FAMILY CAREGIVERS MONTH, 2011

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

Across our country, millions of family members, neighbors, and friends provide care and support for their loved ones during times of need. With profound compassion and selflessness, these caregivers sustain American men, women, and children at their most vulnerable moments, and through their devoted acts, they exemplify the best of the American spirit. During National Family Caregivers Month, we pay tribute to the individuals throughout America who ensure the health and well-being of their relatives and loved ones.

Many of our Nation's family caregivers assist seniors and people with disabilities to help improve their quality of life. Their efforts help deliver short term comfort and security, facilitate social engagement, and help individuals stay in their homes and communities as long as possible. This heroic work is often done while caregivers balance other commitments to their families, jobs, and communities. As these remarkable individuals put their own lives on hold to tend to their family members, it is our responsibility to ensure they do not have to do it alone.

To ease the emotional and financial burdens that can accompany caregiving, my Administration has striven to support family caregivers for the crucial role they perform. Vice President Joe Biden's Middle Class Task Force has focused on the importance or investing in respite care, counseling, and training for individuals who serve aging Americans. These initiatives would give family caregivers a leg up as they continue to support their aging loved ones.

One of our Nation's greatest responsibilities is to ensure our veterans, their families, and their caregivers receive lasting and comprehensive support. Last year, I signed the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act, which helps fulfill this obligation by extending additional assistance to family members who care for severely wounded veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. Our military caregivers exemplify the heroism found not only on the fields of battle, but also in the hearts of those who tend to our wounded warriors when they come home.

As we observe National Family Caregivers Month, we honor the tireless compassion of Americans who heal, comfort, and support our injured, our elders, and people with disabilities. This month and throughout the year, let the quiet perseverance of our family caregivers remind us of the decency and kindness to which we can all aspire.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 2011 as National Family Caregivers Month. I encourage all Americans to pay tribute to those who provide for the health and well-being of their family members, friends, and neighbors.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand eleven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-sixth.

BARACK OBAMA

Home Remedies That Work

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:39:00 +0000

I find it amusing that one of the headline articles at AARP today is Grandma Was Right: These Home Remedies Work - 10 Home Remedies That Work, as if it is a surprise that our grandparents might have known a thing or two about how to ease a cold or cure a headache without reaching for the drug cabinet.

What does surprise me is what they then go on to suggest.

Liquid Dish Soap for poison ivy?
Baby Shampoo for cleaning eyelids?
Menthol Rub.... Witch Hazel...

Well, okay, witch hazel could be considered a old natural remedy I suppose, but still, when I think natural home remedies that work, I think in terms of chicken soup for a cold and warm salt water for a sore throat.

If we are going to talk about home remedies that grandma was right about, I do not think we should be talking in terms of shampoo and dish soap. When I think of home remedies that my mom told me about, I don't think of those sorts of products. I'm not sure how many she learned from her mom, but they could have easily been passed down by my grandmother's generation and her grandmother's generation.

So, here are a few home remedies that work (at least for me) that are good old fashioned "Grandma's Home Remedies."

1. Warm Salt Water for Sore Throats
To one cup of warm water add one teaspoon of salt, gargle until water is gone - try not to swallow, it tastes nasty. Repeat three times a day.
I got this recipe from a military doctor at Fairchild Air Force Base just outside of Spokane, Washington. My parents took me there in the 1980's when I had tonsillitis and the doctor told me that he could do one of two things. He could remove my tonsils, or he could do the three second cure with a skewer stick. I knew we couldn't afford me being in a hospital for removing them, so I opted for the quick cure. He jabbed my tonsils and sent me home to eat ice cream with instructions to gargle with warm salt water, explaining it would help better than any pills he might prescribe and worked for any sore throat. He was right. And in an article on cold remedies the Mayo Clinic agrees, use salt water for sore throats.

2. Chicken Soup for Colds
While it might seem more like a comfort food for someone that feels miserable with a cold, there has actually been research into the ability of chicken soup to cure the common cold. It is even suggested by the Mayo Clinic as a cold remedy. There is an amino acid called Cysteine that is found in it that helps to reduce mucus and thereby relieves some of the misery of the common cold. Sure there are other ways to do this, but when miserable is it not just as comforting to huddle in a chair in a fluffy quilt and slowly sip chicken noodle soup from a spoon?
Vegetables can be added to the soup, and do tend to have some healing qualities of their own, but are not actually necessary for the healing qualities to be gained from chicken soup. See this student paper on the common cold for more about how chicken soup really does help ease symptoms. And the good news - it does not have to be home made if you are not feeling up to that. Campbell's soup seems to work just as well as home made for making you feel better when you have a cold.

3. Cloves Ease Toothache Pain
Whenever someone had a toothache my mom would recommend they place a whole clove in their mouth along the gums between the lip and the painful tooth. Clove oil is known to reduce the pain of toothaches when applied to the area with a Q-Tip, although it is advised not to be used in large quantities (who would??) because it can cause liver damage in large quantities. The whole clove trick works to numb the gums where the pain is until the person can get to a dentist for proper treatment.

4. Mud For Nettle Sting
It might seem weird, even yucky, but when I was a little girl my mom told me to put fresh creek mud onto my arm whenever I ended up straying into the stinging nettles. It worked. I'm not sure what it was, the psychological effect, or the coolness of the mud, or whatever, but it would ease the sting feel of the stinging nettles. Note that I never tried it on poison ivy or oak, only on stinging nettle, so I don't know what all it would work for, but for me, clean mud from a flowing stream worked for stinging nettle.

Taking some wardrobe cute from my roommates

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:25:00 +0000

Guest post written by Laura Laws

I guess that you mimic the people that you're around most of the time. It's always been that way. But right now I have some really stylish roommates that are really causing me to challenge myself in the way that I dress every day. It's so much more interesting to find all sorts of different outfit combinations, especially when your roommates have invested interests in what you're wearing and see you enough to know your style.

I'm not the most fashionable person, especially in our apartment, so I not only ask my roommates for fashion advice, but I also use our wireless internet Arlington to find out all kinds of different ideas about how to make my existing style even better with my existing stuff. I'm all about dressing better without having to actually spend any money.

Sometimes I wish that my roommates were up as early as me during the week. There are so many mornings that I wish I had their input. But I've learned to just get their input the night before when I plan my outfits.

Home care facility in Marina, CA kills 5

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:34:00 +0000

This past Sunday a fire in a home care facility in Marina, California killed 4 and injures 3 police officers.

At around twenty minutes before midnight a fire was reported at the Mount Carmel Adult Residential Facility in Marina. Firefighters arrived on scene to discover persons still trapped within the facility and three Marina police officers, a firefighter and two care providers suffered smoke inhalation, reportedly while attempting to rescue persons trapped inside the facility.

The persons killed in the fire were residents of the home, whose names have not been released. Investigators from the ATF are assisting local officials in investigating what caused the fire.

AARP wants people over 50 to live the American Dream

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:26:00 +0000

I have a new article up at the Family Caregiver Info website - AARP wants people over 50 to live the American Dream too, stop in and see what AARP is up to and then stop in at the forums at Family Caregiver Info and share your thoughts about this and other issues facing family caregivers.

Thyme Tea for coughs from flu

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:57:00 +0000

For the first time in about 20 years I have let myself be sick while I have the flu - I don't think I wanna ever do that again.

I've been sick for about two weeks now, and although I am past the stage where I just wanted to tuck into bed and sleep through the sickness stuff, I am now into coughing every time I try to lay down. I don't like it, and I'm not getting enough sleep because I can't lay down without having to get back up because of the coughing.

I looked up home remedies online and found that thyme made into a tea is supposed to be good for stopping coughs, so I decided to try it. I had already tried the honey, lemon and brandy trick. And spoons of honey. And several other tricks - I even tried a trick I saw on a video where the pharmacy guy had said that you can stop nighttime coughs by putting Vicks Vapor Rub on the soles of your feet and putting on warm socks then going to sleep. Not sure on how that works, my test was flawed by inability to sleep at the time I tried it.

The thyme tea seems to be of some help though. I made up a recipe for thyme ginger tea:

1 tsp thyme leaves
1/4 tsp powdered ginger
3 whole cloves

Place into small tea pot and add 1 cup boiling water. Let steep for 10 minutes. Add 1 more cup boiling water to warm it back up.

Pour into tea cups and sweeten with honey. Sip to soothe coughs.

I don't know if there is a safe limit on how much thyme a person can drink, I will need to look that up, but the tea has a nice flavor to it and is even good cold - which makes me want to try it as an iced tea next summer. Will need to look into if there is a limit to how much thyme someone should consume and what its side effects are.

Medications and Lawsuits

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 06:42:00 +0000

As caregivers we have a lot to keep track of and worry about, we really do not need to be worrying over if the medications which our loved one's doctor has prescribed to them might indeed be safe for them. And yet, sometimes we will find ourselves in just such positions. As a caregiver for my father I called doctors on more than a few medications that would have resulted in either medications that were not needed and had potentially dangerous side effects, or on certain medications that could not be mixed with other medications without life threatening results.

Some medications, while they have been FDA approved, are not right for all segments of the population, and this can lead to possible lawsuits if the drug companies and others associated with at risk medications are not careful. Such as the cholesterol medication Crestor and the possibility raised of misleading advertising that could result in a Crestor lawsuit by anyone harmed by the medication. Originally developed by the Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi, Crestor was licensed to Astra-Zeneca in 1998. It was not until 2003 before Crestor was approved for use in the U.S. by the FDA.

A member of the drugs known as "statins", Crestor's approval had some limitations to use due to some known potential side effects when taken by certain at risk people. This potential for serious side effects was part of the issue when in 2009 the FDA scrutinized the advertising Astra-Zeneca used for Crestor. There was, apparently, some misleading safety claims in the advertising that came under the FDA's scrutiny.

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MIT family caregiver handbook

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 01:38:00 +0000

MIT has a family caregiver handbook available for anyone that is looking for elder care resources in Massachusetts. You can find it on the MIT website on the Family Caregiver Handbook page.

The online handbook offers a wealth of advice not only for residents of Massachusetts, but information that would be of use to any caregiver living anywhere in the United States. The handbook guides the caregiver through important questions that they will want to know the answers to as they start into being a caregiver for their aging loved one, such as what needs the elder person will have, what services might be needed later on, what documentation might be needed, and so much more.

2011 Elizabeth McGown Caregiver Legacy Award

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 02:59:00 +0000

Morningside Ministries has a note on their Facebook page announcing the 2011 Elizabeth McGown Caregiver Legacy Award which honors a health care professional or caregiver (family or pastoral) that provides exceptional care to one or more older adults and inspires others to make a difference in the lives of older adults as well.

See their Facebook page for all of the details on the award (linked above).

What's the Big Deal?

noreply@blogger.com (Sandra) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:59:00 +0000

Contribution by Terrance Kirby

I don’t understand what all the fuss is about when it comes to the housing market– our place has totally retained its value. We’ve got a really good friend who’s a realtor and she told us the other day how much she think we could sell it for and it was actually more than we bought the place for only three years ago! I’ve added a lot of things to it, too, like Direct tv and granite countertops and a lot of additional stuff too. I think that helped. But either way I’m just glad to know that we’re not going to lose our shirts on this place like I thought we would and some of our friends have. I love having this home though and I’ve got no intention of selling it because it really fits our lifestyle here and honestly, you can’t really beat the location it’s in. I wish my wife felt the same way but I think I’ll be able to talk her into it if I keep trying my hardest!

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