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You need to know where you are This week I went to help a friend at his house in Blue Ridge. And let me say this, there are a lot of winding roads out there. Don’t get me wrong, it’s beautiful. But if you don’t know your way around, you could end up in a ditch or something worse like hanging off the side of the mountain. After our visit, I headed home. But I asked if there was a better...
A Landlords Tale ‘Twas the night before Thanksgiving and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Now you know that’s not true, cause children of four have we, And there’s nary a moment of silence, especially in the evening. At 8 o’clock my daughter was baking cookies for the next day’s feast, And the two littles were roaming the halls making sounds of some...
The way you lie I don’t know if you are country music fans are not but I like listening to it from time to time — especially if it’s from the 90’s era. But there’s a song from the Band Perry titled “You Lie.” The chorus is great and it goes something like this: ‘You lie like a priceless Persian rug on a rich man's floor. You lie like a coon dog basking in the sunshine on my porch. You lie...
In the zone — but not the right zone You can’t trust government websites. Ask me how I know. Better yet, I’ll just tell you. We’re currently working on a project that has a house sitting on 4.5 acres in a nice country setting. That sounds quaint, doesn’t it? It’s a good area and will make someone a great home. But something we realized is that the extra acreage does not increase the value...
Financial Freedom of Religion We just got back from The Feast of Tabernacles. And if you aren’t familiar with what that is, it’s a biblical holiday where Yahweh commands the children of Israel to dwell in tents for 7 days to remind them of the time they spent in the wilderness. (If you want to check it out in the scriptures, you can find this in Leviticus 23:33-44.) In other words, each...