About Juneau County, AK

Juneau is a small town, and pretty much everybody knows everybody else.

It's hard not to trip over each other, and over our clients.

But the fact is, buyers and sellers come and go, we all need to continue to work together, and we don't have room to cut-throat eachother.

I just had a nice visit from another licensee in our town. She brought me a HUGE bag of Boy Scout Chocolatey Triple Delight as a "thank you"!

I listed a house and someone emailed me about it right after it hit my website. My seller had told me an agent we both knew mentioned in passing she might just know the right person for her beautiful home.

Since just about everyone appears to be on Facebook, I've developed a habit of looking to see if people are there. There's a safety element to that, but mostly it's to help me recognize them when I get there. I can also see if we have any "mutual friends" which makes getting that connection easier.

Well, we had several "mutual friends". One just happened to be that licensee. While it was a bit akward, I got them hooked back up.

Yeah, I could have taken the client. But I didn't. I've also deepened the trust I have with that licensee. And I did the right thing.

Popcorn, anyone?

Ah, it's dinner time and my mouth is watering for some spicy food. When the mood for spicy food strikes, the Bobby Flay cook books and recipes surface. We even have his 'Boy Meets Grill' cookbook on the shelf.

Bobby Flay, undisputed Southwestern Chef extraordinaire owns the search term 'Mesa Grill' on Google. Every link on the first page goes to Mesa Grill New York, Mesa Grill Las Vegas or Mesa Grill Bahamas. You'll easily find links to Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill reviews, menus, online reservations, walking directions, hours, maps, wine lists, recipes, cookbooks, sauces, rubs, and even gift cards. Heck, I can even sign up for his mailing list or click over to the Kohl's link to see videos for his product demos and grilling tips. On to search results page two and it's simply more of the same. Total Bobby Flay domination! Went to www.msn.com and then www.yahoo.com and had the same experience.

As a matter of fact, the search results are so consistently skewed to Bobby Flay that Mesa Grill is about the last name that I would give to my new restaurant in any state of the US. Bobby Flay pretty well owns the term Mesa Grill. Ask 10 people who owns Mesa Grill and probably 9 of them will confidently respond with ‘Bobby Flay'.

When travelling my husband and I like to dine at our old favorite restaurants and mix in a few new spots to keep things fresh. Yet no visit to New York City or Las Vegas is complete without a visit to Mesa Grill. Mesa Grill is on the ‘must visit' list every trip.

We took a cruise and recently travelled to Juneau, Alaska and heard there was a Mesa Grill in town, so we headed on over. Guess this Mesa Grill isn't owned by Bobby Flay, I'm just sayin', ya know?

At least I don't think that's his pickup truck in the owner's spot...

Well, almost. But I’m done being the Board President of the Southeast Alaska Board of REALTORS®

Tonight we had our transitional meeting. I will step back as Past-President.

WHEW. What a run. We coordinated some great education, raised money for charity and RPAC, and started planning the state convention which will be held in Juneau in September 2010.

Congratulations to Gwen Place, as 2010 President!

One of the activities that bring me out of winter and into spring involves gardening. Catalogues, planning and dreaming! This year, it seems many of my favorite companies have either delayed sending them out, or perhaps have gone paperless. At least a few companies have switched to sending paper catalogues every other year as well. That’s fine – less clutter.

Part of a great landscaping plan involves planning. Our gardening season is wet, cool and short in Southeast Alaska, so there seems to be a lot of time to plan and dream during the long winters. This year is especially hard because we have so little snow cover. (Hopefully I mulched enough to protect my hundreds of bulbs!) When we have white on the ground, it seems to reflect what little light we have. Right now, the sun comes up about 9AM and it’s completely dark by 3PM.

As we start gaining daylight, it's easy to think of summer. I'm ready - yes, already!

In late winter, I look forward to summer hobbies, like fishing, gardening, hiking, fishing - oh yeah, I already said fishing! Tonight I was looking through photos on my computer and this one especially made me look forward to warmer temperatures and time out on the boat. I have friends who take their boats out in winter, but ours is tucked away inside a "boat condo" - a larger garage.