Downtown Sights and Sites

There is a lot going on in Downtown Hartford these days. Here are just a few of the activities and projects currently scheduled and underway. The PGA Tour comes to Greater Hartford in a couple weeks for the Travelers Championship. One fantastic way to get involved is to check out the Tee It Up for Charity event on Thursday the 24th. It’s basically a big party with live music, a silent auction, and a mini-tournament

Pick Your Own Berries

Memorial Day weekend some of my clients were kind enough to bring me a quart of freshly picked strawberries. It was a really thoughtful act. And the strawberries were delicious. We talked about our favorite places to pick strawberries in the area. In previous years I had always gone to Rose’s Berry Farm in Glastonbury. I’d stick to the Hebron Avenue field because it was closest on my trip over from Hartford. These folks were

Real Estate Activity Decrease by Town – May 2010

May is a busy real estate month. More deals are done in the spring than in other times of the year, and the month of May is right there in the middle of the spring. In most years, the months of April and May have the two highest totals of contracts written (buyers and sellers agreeing on a sale). May usually edges out April, but not always. It depends on how the holidays fall, and

My Town Is Better Than Your Town

Today was an exciting day in the “My Town is Better Than Your Town” battle. First, we received our new copy of Hartford Magazine and it ranked the best towns to live in within Hartford County (note: I don’t know when they’ll update their website to show the current article). There are 29 towns in Hartford County, so it laid them all out for us, segregated by town size. They used 21 factors in the

Our 2010 Vegetable Experiment

Kyle and I try to be do-it-yourselfers where we can. Lawn care, painting, small carpentry projects. You know, easy stuff that our schedule allows us to do and ones where if we screwed up we wouldn’t electrocute ourselves or flood the house. We’re getting into the warmer weather now, so it should be time for us to start planning and planting our vegetable garden. Maybe you followed our Tomato Experiment last year. It was the