About Calvert County, MD

11th Annual Mulch Madness Mulch Sale Sponsored by Boy Scout Troop 1792 in Sunderland MD is underway!

I saw signs on Rt. 4 and flyers just inside our front office RE/MAX door!

Go to www.Troop1792.org for order forms! All proceeds go to the Troop.

Delivery date is Saturday March 24 starting 8am.

Kelly Generator and All Saints Episcopal Church are major sponsors . F & L Landscaping is the Supplier.

Donations?...1.50 per bag may be claimed for donation purposes.

There is a ten bag minimum order and deliveries are in Northern Calvert only.

The cost? 4.25 per delivered bag or 4.00 when you purchase over thirty bags. Order by March 14!

You'll Retrieve Golden Results with Cheryl Ritchie, RE/ MAX 100, for all your Southern MD Real Estate Services. Visit www.GoldenResults.com.

Well, just a little iddy biddy tech tip please..oh, all right!

I have been well behaved this week.

More localism posts and less tech posts.

But let me round out the week with a couple of tech talk points.

Yes, if you must ask I do want the NEW iPAD. Uh huh!

I am mid stream figuring out the Visioneer Color Cordless Scanner from Staples. The reader was not in the box which enables the eye fi to work cordless on photos.

So wait I must!

I am going to check out www.PicMonkey.com when they get the collage feature added. I need a Picnik replacement.

Okay, that's it. Short and sweet and back to market reports and localism posts this week.

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The Celebration of Life for Pat Carpenter is hosted at Rod n Reel Restaurant Sunday March 11, 2012 4PM-7PM this afternoon.

I met Pat and Bob Carpenter maybe a decade ago. That was before they became Celebrities in our small Town. That was before they were a household word. And before everyone knew and loved them.

As a real estate agent for decades you meet and work with a lot of people. Along the way, some people stand out as really, really special.

First of all, let me clarify the Pat and Bob Carpenter is spelled PatandBobCarpenter with no spaces. You realize pretty quickly that there is a very nice love story here.

This is what I remember before they become down right famous around here. Before politics, before road signs in their name, before local jobs, before many charitable events. When I was just the Realtor they picked when they were considering living here part time.

I remember puzzling over the computer search one day in the office. It really had me stumped. Very quietly and gently, Pat said, Cheryl, change this field and the search should come up. She did it so gently and with so much grace I did not feel silly for not figuring it out myself. I have remembered that scene countless times when I needed to explain something to someone that I may have grasped easily but they did not.

I remember the pre home inspection. Something said to me that we needed to do one before the offer. Now that was and is RARE. But something made us do it. I remember again the calmness they showed when the report results were DIFFICULT and how it catapulted the home search to new construction.

I remember mentioning some of my friends who became some of their very best friends...as in vacation friends and dinner friends and Holiday friends.

I remember having a sixth sense about them a few times. They would cross my mind and within hours I would bump in to them somewhere. It always left me dumbfounded but they just seem kind of amused.

I remember watching them over the years become entrenched in the community. I remember thinking I knew them first. I also remember thinking how lucky we were to have them decide to move here full time and what a joy they were to my friends and to the Community.

Here is to you, Pat Carpenter. Here is to your grace, kindness, consideration, creativity and the footprint you have left forever on our small Town which was made so much grander by your presence.

You'll Retrieve Golden Results with Cheryl Ritchie, RE/MAX 100, for all your Southern Maryland Real Estate Services. Visit www.GoldenResults.com for more information.

Roland's Grocery Store in Chesapeake Beach Maryland has a blank spot on its shelf.

It is where the Choboni Greek Yogurt with the Pineapples inside normally resides.

Okay, I confess. At five for a dollar apiece, I bought all 25. Well, a couple of pomegranate, too.

You eat that stuff in the morning and I guess because of the protein you then forget to eat until way later in the day.

Hey, let me go back for more while they are still on sale at our local grocery store by the Chesapeake Bay!

You'll Retrieve Golden Results with Cheryl Ritchie, RE/MAX 100, for all your Southern Maryland Real Estate Services. Visit www.GoldenResults.com for more information.

The Kubler Ross Stages of Grief Applied to Real Estate?

The grieving stages are covered in the acronym DABDA.

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.

They are outlined at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kübler-Ross_model.

There are grieving processes in Real Estate.

Families are moving, selling, leaving.

But there are also new Spring Beginnings, too.

Moving in, Buying, Making NEW friends and enjoying new surroundings.

That is the acceptance part. And sometimes that can become a HAPPY thing.