Monthly Archives: November 2008

Ot is my birthday, and I am thinking back – and forward

ShareToday I turn a prime-number age again. I don’t know why I like prime numbers, since I am math-challenged, but they fascinate me. Besides prime numbers, I am also interested in physics, again not something that somebody who can’t deal with long division would be expected to be interested in! Here are some other things…

New training facility opens at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas

ShareFort Sam Houston is the location for a new Army Medical Department Center and School’s Center for Predeployment Medicine. The CPDM will offer training to combat medics, nurses, senior noncommissioned medics, physicians, and  their assistants and will cover everything from providing first aid on the battlefield to support in combat hospitals. Four courses that were…

Good tenants, bad tenants – looking back over my rental property history

ShareI was a tenant many times and long before I was a landlady, and I’ve lived in a lot of apartments and houses. I try to learn from my mistakes, and it’s helped to relate my experience of being a tenant to owning and managing rental properties. Thinking back over the years, here are my observations as a…

“Blue carpet is the kiss of death” – things that make houses sit there and not sell

ShareReal estate is local, of course, and I have noticed certain things over the years that make a house stubbornly cling to its sellers instead of taking in new owners. At least in my area, and maybe in others, these issues can cause the house to take longer to sell. One of them is blue…

What’s the buzz? Bees!

ShareSome of the bees’ favorite plants in our garden in Cibolo have finished blooming or died back, like the batface and the hyssop. But there are plenty of other flowers to keep them busy (as bees, of course)! Look at all the pollen in those saddlebags! Actually they’re called pollen baskets, or corbicula. (I’m sure I’ve…