Huntsville TX Real Estate, Lake Conroe Real Estate with Mari Montgomery

I love, love, love my porch.  It is where my husband and I watch the world go by.  It's where we take our laptops and work, and where I play a lot of sudoku and maybe a glass of wine.  When we moved to Huntsville TX from west of Fort Worth, I told my husband, "what I want in Huntsville TX Real estate is a porch."  I want to sit out when it rains and not get wet.  (Moving from west of Fort Worth, I just wanted it to rain!)  I sure did get my wish.  I feel like the luckiest girl in the world--4 covered porches!  Colonial homes rock!

Where is it that you like to sit and relax?  Is it outdoors in indoors?  Do you have wildlife in your neighborhood?  We have deer.  Some people hate them because they eat the plants.  I think they are SO cute.  We live in a subdivision called Elkins Lake in Huntsville TX.  We love it!

The title itself is the root of the problem. It's a different world than Cary Grant's. See--half of you don't even know who he is. For the first time in my life (well, maybe not the first), I'm not the young one with the new ideas, taking the newest risks, trying the newest things.

That's it--it's a generation gap. This is the point where I suspiciously start sounding like my parents. I Facebook--But I can't be a part of the "Under 40 Social Networking Club" in my MLS Area-seriously, I can't. For the first time in my life---really this time---I feel older.

So, where does Facebook come in. As far as Real Estate, I think it probably serves more of a "business" role for agents who are serving an area where they have been for a very long time or grew up there. Kind of to remind everyone what they do. (Lake Conroe Real Estate, Huntsville TX Real Estate, Lake Livingston Real Estate) For people in general, it means so may different things and fills so many different roles.

For me, it's kind of a strange and varied place where I meet up with people I haven't seen on 30 years (or 28 years)-like people I went to High School with- (Okay--Cat's out of the bag in terms of age), catch up with former students telling me what's going on in their lives or asking for advice. (I used to be a teacher--always will be,I guess) Well, for me it's the availability thing. We--as a people---have become pretty private. I think Facebook serves as an invitation to kinda "put yourself out there," to become accessible. Hmmmm...

What is Facebook to you???????????? I really want to know. What's on Your Mind?

This was so much fun.  Yesterday as my husband and I were coming home from our new Target--that's right, Huntsville TX NOW has a Target!!  We are officially BIG time.  I saw some of my clients that I helped find a home in Elkins Lake-- a gorgeous golf community in Huntsville TX.  All the golf you can play--One Homeowners fee--NO green fees!  How cool is that--Wanna know more--Call me!

Okay, back to the story.  Anyway, they were tooling down the road from the clubhouse in their cool golfcart.  Well, I didn't have their new e-mail address, so I decided we would flag them down.  So we did--in a "No Parking Anytime Zone."  That is cool in itself.  Kind of as renegade as I get.  So, we start talking.  I got their e-mail address, then I realized I didn't have their picture on my website.  Well, I just happened to be carrying a SOLD sign, my camera and my Flip Video.  Yeah, that's cool too.

We laughed so hard--people honked at us to move out of the "No Parking Zone," but we were having too much fun.  Then someone on a bike rode up and stopped to talk.  It was another client I had helped to find a home in the neighboring neighborhood.  (Is that a term?)   It was too cool.

I LOVE the people I get to meet and work with and help in this business.  I LOVE THIS BUSINESS!!!  I am having so much fun and make a living---who knew?!

Watch this video and you can see for yourself--It's short--and you'll hopefully at least smile.

Texas Rangers Baseball is winding down. I am pretty sad about that. I have really enjoyed the season. It's a little disappointing that we (Texas Rangers) came in second, but the Rangers have a lot to hold their collective heads up about.

Great season, although there was quite the post All-Star break slump--which was the main reason we came in second. Baseball is so much fun to watch. You can watch kind of passively. You can actually have a conversation during a game--unlike watching the NBA Dallas Mavericks (there is a "no-talk during the game rule") My husband is quite serious about the Dallas Mavericks, and for that matter, so am I. They are our team.

I exaggerate a bit about the no-talk rule-lest you think my husband is "one of those." Trust me he's not. He's the best, coolest and most wonderful-est. Now that you're gagging, I'll go on.

Watching the Texas Rangers to me is like a real piece of "Americana" on display. These kids (kids=under 40) are so cool. They are incredibly diverse in background and look like a kindergarten class witht he kids oin big, athletic bodies. (Let's not talk about the athletic bodies--or we'll have to go to PG-13) We have so much fun watching them have fun. I think its the innocence and pure exuberance. The joy that they exude is quite thrilling to watch. It makes me smile.

I am really chilling out in my "middle age." There, I said it, middle age. Now that it is "on the table--I can move on. Thanks for listening and "Go Rangers in 2010!"

Recipe Alert!

Okay, for lunch today I tried something new. I decided I wanted tuna salad, but a new kind of creation. Here goes:

-1 can well-drained can of tuna

-very finely chopped onion-about 1/8 cup

-montreal steak seasoning--just a dash

-balsamic vinegar-abiout 2 TB

-parsley-dried or fresh

-mayonnaise-about 2 TB or so (to your taste)

-garlic powder-dash

-few red pepper flakes

stir-place on Mrs. Baird's Bread (or any good white bread) add romaine lettuce--YUMMMMMMMMMM!

It is really amazing to me how tasty and how different it tastes than normal tuna salad.

Try it--I think you'll really like it!