About Searcy's Searcy Arkansas

The Hoggard Team in Searcy Arkansas does so much business!

They are the top team producers in our area.

And they are nice!

You could say they "ROCK."

Just observe.

That's Phil on the left, Joel in the center and Judy on the right. They are at our weekly sales meeting and rush to grab the seats beside the wall. At first I thought the rockin' was just a Phil thing. Then I saw Joel doing it. And then......Judy joined.

I'm jealous. If I did that the chair would slip and I'd be floor bound and the REALTORS would ROTFL.

Rock on!! Happy Christmas, Phil, Joel and Judy!!

Several REALTORS walked into the meeting on Wednesday and commented (with a few sneers, I think) about my being famous.

"What are you talking about?" was my reaction.

"Your blog was written up in Arkansas Business," they said.

I hustled back to the office and found a copy and started reading. I thought it was a darned good article with special tribute given to the 1952 tornado blogs. What I liked best was how my readers were called quasi-cult members. I don't dare look it up to see what that means because it might deflate my swollen head which is beginning to feel sorta heavy. Quasi-Cult member Don will hopefully explain it completely.

Here's a link to the article. Everyone who reads this is responsible for this article and I thank you! We really do want to put Searcy and the history of Searcy right up there in front of everyone

Arkansas Business News Article

There I wuz....just drivin' along by the park...

My passenger set up a high squeal! "Mother, there are medieval fighters right out there in that park!"

Naturally we turn around to have a closer look. We park the car and go up to these fighters and ask for permission to take their pictures. (We have courage!) We get permission to show you their outfits.

They have either built or bought the different parts of the outfits and strive for authenticity.

One warrior made this helmet for himself and then inscribed it.

Another warrior made his own leather vest.

One fighter's leggings and shoes.

This fighter was taking a break but look at the knees and knuckles! The guys are supposed to email me and tell me more about their organization but daughter seems to think they said they were members of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc., with web site of www.SCA.org.

Hopefully, they'll email me more information and I can pass it on. The fascinating thing was seeing how folks used to fight. They demonstrated the fights for us too.

Whew!!

We were late for our appointment but the fight was worth it!

REO (foreclosure properties) homes always offer surprises. This particular one had the front door guarded by a bunch of flying screeching birds that didn't appreciate my trespassing near their home. I had to see what they were so proud of. Here's what I saw.

I took this closeup because I was really impressed with the bird's house. If there were babies inside they were very quiet and not visible. Look at the layers of this house. They appeared to have selected different colors of dirt just to have a nicely painted house. Deliberate? Genius birds? It does make you wonder when you examine the other dirt houses on this property. The others were all just shacks. This one, however, was the palace of the REO property.

The moral to this story is this. If you ever find one dobber nest on your propery tear it down immediately because if you don't the dobbers contact all their relatives and before long your property will be covered with slung dirt.

The land is being cleared on Country Club Road for a big new subdivision. I admit that I don't have all the particulars yet but you can sure tell something is going on when you drive from West Beebe Capps up Country Club Road. It has always been a pretty narrow and tight road with hills and now it is worse!

Big equipment and trucks and people are turning in and out to clear the land for Searcy's very newest subdivision. It is right across the street from the property that still has horses in town and is blessed by rainbows. The family moved there when it was country and now it is "town." You can see their flower bed in the picture below.

We'll be watching to see how it all turns out.

P. S. The proposed name of this subdivision will be Ridgewood and is developed by Craig Lackie and engineered by Adam Whitlow. It proposes 82 lots on 21 acres in Phase I and 64 lots on 15 acres in Phase II.