Debi Boucher - "Realtor Showcase" Real Estate Slideshows/ Photographer

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Have a Wonderful and Safe Holiday!

May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have never a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs! -Unknown Author

Prudential Professional REALTORS, ASP REALTOR, Woodland Park Real Estate, Woodland Park Colorado 80863 – Serving the City of Woodland Park, Teller County, Ute Pass, and Park County since 1997.

This terrific website, sponsored by Xerox, consists of many different drawings by school children designed to be reproduced as postcards, and sent by us to our troops to express our thanks for their service to our country. It is a remarkable collection, and a wonderful idea. I encourage you all to take a moment, (a moment is all it takes), and choose one of these designs to be sent to Iraq!

Click here to go to the site:

Thanks to you ALL for your courage and dedication to our country!

Prudential Professional REALTORS, ASP REALTOR, Woodland Park Real Estate, Woodland Park Colorado 80863 – Serving the City of Woodland Park, Teller County, Ute Pass, and Park County since 1997.

Colorado Jails To Provide Inmates With "Missing Persons" Playing Cards

Just ran across this article by Joel Warner. I think it's a terrific idea, and may help return hundreds of children to their families, and at the very least, solve, until now, unsolved crimes against children. The Colorado Department of Corrections will replace the jail's playing cards with cards that have photographs of missing persons, and homicide victims of unsolved cases. The hope, of course, is that will lead to inmates coming forward with information to solve these crimes. I think it's a great idea. The company that manufactures the cards, claims "their cards have directly helped solve four criminal cases, with several more potential indictments on the way".

I sincerely hope Colorado moves forward with their plans to implement this program, and SOON!

Prudential Professional REALTORS, ASP REALTOR, Woodland Park Real Estate, Woodland Park Colorado 80863 – Serving the City of Woodland Park, Teller County, Ute Pass, and Park County since 1997.

                                 

Well, its official:  The Los Angeles Times has published its last Sunday real estate section of its newspaper. 

There's a journalism term for finishing an edition's work: You put the section to bed. When I started as a part-timer in this department 28 1/2 years ago under then-editor Dick Turpin, I never dreamed that one day I'd be putting the section to bed for good. -- Lauren Beale, Real Estate editor

                                         Looks like it's NOT just the Real Estate Section

From an article by Stephanie Clifford, published October 28, 2008:

"After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only, its publisher announced Tuesday. The cost-cutting measure makes The Monitor the first national newspaper to largely give up on print.... The article continues:

We have the luxury — the opportunity — of making a leap that most newspapers will have to make in the next five years,” Mr. Yemma said."

And this:

"Dropping the print edition seems to tempt newspaper executives. At a recent conference held by the City University of New York’s journalism school, a group of publishing executives discussed what a cost-efficient newsroom should look like. They eventually settled on casting aside paper and starting fresh on the Web."

And this:

"Mr. Yemma said that print did bring in money at The Monitor, but most of that was from subscriptions, not advertising."

For some reason it never occured to me that there could come a day that we would no longer have newspapers.

                                                     And there are other issues with this loss as well....

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Prudential Professional REALTORS, ASP REALTOR, Woodland Park Real Estate, Woodland Park Colorado 80863 – Serving the City of Woodland Park, Teller County, Ute Pass, and Park County since 1997.

We had several deer hanging out in our Woodland Park backyard this year, as well as the occasional group of elk, fox, and racoons. Whenever I saw them, I grabbed the camera and ran out to take photos. The deer hung out on a daily basis, from May to August, and gave me plenty of 'Kodak Moments". I began to refer to them as "my boys", and it was fun to watch as they matured. I was excited to realise that I had two 6 pointers, one 5X6, one 5X4, and one goofy guy that was a 2X4! These are a few of the shots I took.

You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

All Photos taken by Debi Boucher, all rights reserved and may not be reproduced without express written permission. Prudential Professional REALTORS, ASP REALTOR, Woodland Park Real Estate, Woodland Park Colorado 80863 – Serving the City of Woodland Park, Teller County, Ute Pass, and Park County since 1997.