Kristian Schonberg

Here is my son playing with the North Mason football C team. They beat Sequim and Port Angeles to fininsh a successful season.

Yes, folks, the football team of North Mason High School (the Bulldogs) under Coach Pugh is getting into shape for the fall season. The ninty degree temps make it a tough week for the team as they get toughened and into shape to take on all the opposition. This week and next will be light or no contact as they are running and learnig play execution, so we expect them to do well!

Yesterday and today, with temperatures reaching into the 90s around here, we have enjoyed swimming to cool down in both the lakes and the saltwater. Late yesteday afternoon, I drove my 2 sons to Stretch Island to beach comb and swim and noticed hundreds of seals on the north side chasing anchovies. With the spectacular Olympic Mountains, Mt. Rainier, and surrrounded by water, this area is the best in the world! We watched an eagle dive down to the water to catch a fish as we swam. We have great deals on this kind of property.

Looking at the Northwest Multiple Listing statistics for North Mason on lower Puget Sound in Grapeview, Allyn, and Trails End and Mason Lake, I see that there are 19 pending propeties listed from $110,000 to $349,000. The average days on market is 225 days. There are 24 expired homes and 7 homes since April 1st. The days on market are 100 and the average price/sq. ft. is $155 per square foot overall. The average price was $263,000. Our market activity has increased with the increase in pending sales. I expect that the summer months will continue to see an increase in activity, but not an increase in sales of homes over $500,000. The highest priced sold home in this report was $521,250, a low bank waterfront Grapeview home.

When my neighbors decided to take down a few trees around the houses, it was a sight to see the loggers cutting the trees down in small sections after first limbing it on the trip up the tree. Once the wood was down came the hard job of cutting it up and stacking it for nice winter fires during the cold, snowy December and January days. Firewood heats you up 4 times!