I've been struggling with how to digest the recent events in Connecticut. After our own little taste of violence with the police chase that ended in our neighborhood, I gave some serious thought to finally buying a firearm to protect my little slice of heaven. Needless to say I was stopped in my tracks when I learned of the tragedy of the 26 innocent lives lost as the result of a lunatic with his...
December 2012
If you gage the real estate market by walking around a neighborhood, you would certainly call Valmonte sleepy based on the general absence of for sale signs in the front yards. This reality can be seen a few ways. Maybe you can call it the Holiday calm; who wants to have people touring your home while you're trying to enjoy the special time that is the holiday season? It could be that everyone loves...
Christmastime has arrived in Valmonte. If you ventured out in between the rainstorms this weekend, you certainly saw the flurry of activity as lights were being hung from nearly every roof line, tree branch, and picket fence. Of course if you passed by my house, you may have noticed we finally managed to hang a few pictures on the walls - no lights yet. Regardless of my own decorating guilt, it's...