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The Federal Reserve has made some changes to the time that a gift card has before it expires.  Currently the time limit is one year.  The new rule is that the card cannot lose value until five years after date the card is paid for. Starting on Aug 22nd service fees, including the ones tacked on for balance inquires and if you wanted to add more money to the card, are limited to one fee per month. Also a full year has to go by before they tack on an inactivity fee (about $2.00 a month).  As of now that fee is nowhere to be found on the card so it might come as a surprise and you will have less to spend.  BUT starting Jan 31, 2011 the fee amount must be printed on the back of the gift card.

Most gift cards are not redeemed so the merchant makes more money when people realize that the date has come and gone.  With the five year rule this should eliminate the waste.

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Even if You Do Have a Bladder Control Problem, Stop Peeing on My Floor...

Having been inspecting properties for 10 years, I have seen all kinds of issues with water heaters. Occasionally, I run into a water heater with a bladder control problem. Pressure builds up, a slight sneeze in the system and... OOPS!!! How embarrassing.

Now, one could put some diapers on the water heater or scatter news papers all over the floor, but unlike dogs or kids, water heaters can't be potty trained. And forget "those pills"! They won't really control this bladder problem either.

Odds are, the bladder in the expansion tank is either waterlogged or defective. Expansion tanks are installed to keep "accidents" such as this happening. Every now and then, the bladder gets full and must be drained. Talk about a relief.

So if you see piddle puddles on the floor around your water heater, call a plumber. He'll be more than happy to assist you with your bladder control problem...

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It's prime blueberry picking season on the New Hampshire Seacoast and that means it's time to bake some homemade blueberry muffins!

I was given this recipe from a friend over 20 years ago and I've yet to find one I like better.  I prefer to use fresh, local berries...but frozen work just fine too.

BLUEBERRY MUFFINS

 

2 cups all purpose flour

3/4 cup sugar

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

2 eggs

1/2 cup milk 

1/2 cup melted butter

1 cup blueberries

 

Preheat oven to 350˚

Mix dry ingredients.  Add eggs, milk, and butter and mix with hand mixer.   Fold in blueberries.

Bake for 30 minutes.

Enjoy!

 

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Seizing control of what you focus your attention upon, as a luxury real estate marketing professional, is mission critical in a challenging economy. Your personal economy is actually the result of where you place and hold your attention.  Those who seek out and consistently focus on the positive opportunities of their marketplace experience an entirely different set of financial results compared to those who “rubberneck”, i.e., continuously fixate on what is going wrong.  

Have you ever heard the story about a group of people who are blindfolded and asked to describe a different part of an elephant that they are touching?  One reports that it is a spear (while touching the tusk). Another describes a hose (obviously touching the trunk that is spraying water).  Each can say that they are touching the same animal but have entirely different experiences, and thus different realities.  None are right or wrong in relationship to the others. They are just reporting their experience from their personal vantage point. 

What is exciting to know about focus is that you actually have the power to choose where you place your attention.  However, if you do not exercise this power the results, by default, will be detrimental to your practice.  Rubbernecking is the sure way to bring your luxury real estate marketing practice to a screeching halt.

Have you ever driven in the furthest left lane of a freeway in bumper-to-bumper traffic and noticed up ahead that there were flashing lights of an ambulances and fire trucks on the opposite side of the freeway in the lane closest to you?  Why did your side of the freeway come to a complete stop when the accident happened on the other side of the freeway?  The people directly in front of you were rubbernecking.  There was no traffic jam on your side.

If market leadership is your quest it is imperative that you practice the art of staying focused your own positive outcomes. Mind "your own elephant" and mind your own business.  If you find yourself rubbernecking, be sure not reprimand yourself because that prolongs the fixation on the negative.  Just do your very best to gently redirect your attention back on track.  After consistent deliberate practice without self condemnation, your attention will shift.  You will stop rubbernecking and start bouncing right back! We commend those of you who have achieved this important feat, those of you who have triumphed over your personal economy.

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This is one of a series of posts updating old pictures of San Diego County.
To read other posts in this series, simply click on San Diego Then & Now.

Just twelve miles east northeast of downtown San Diego is the City of La Mesa, the Jewel of the Hills.

Back in 1948, the La Mesa Fire Department received an unusual gift, a springer spaniel-pointer mixed dog that was named Blaze and given the honorary title of Fire House Greeter. You can see Blaze in this picture from around 1960:

(Picture reprinted with permission from La Mesa, by James D. Newland and the La Mesa Historical Society. Available from the publisher online at www.arcadiapublishing.com or by calling 888-313-2665.)

No, I don't have an updated picture of Blaze. Our little Fire House Greeter retired in 1959 and died in 1962.

However, notice the bell in the picture? That's The Volunteer's Bell, and it is still in almost the identical spot, although a new fire house was just recently built around it:

See it in the lower left corner there? When the new fire station was built, the bell was removed and put into storage, which caused a minor uproar in La Mesa. Many people believed that it was wrong to put into storage something that represented the efforts of hundreds, if not thousands, of volunteer firemen over the years in protecting life and property. Some of those volunteer firemen had even died in the line of duty, making The Volunteer's Bell an accidental memorial.

Here is a closeup picture of the bell:

Look at the top of the bell in both pictures and you can see that it has been altered slightly, a result of cleaning and refurbishing while in storage.

In the first picture look closely under the butt of the guy at the right. That square you see is a plaque, and here is a closeup of the same plaque but now on the new base of the bell:

For those whose eyesight is even worse than mine, the poem on the plaque reads:

This bell which rang for many years
To call out all the Volunteers
A symbol of the days gone past
It stands here, proudly
Resting at last.

What I find particularly interesting about the plaque is that at the top left it has the date 1922 and at the top right it has the date 1952, seeming to indicate that the bell rang for thirty years. However, at the bottom of the plaque, it reads, "Presented by Ladies Aux. of L.M.F.D., Dec. 23, 1937."

That leaves me wondering just what the three dates are. My best guess is that the bell rang from 1922 to 1937 and that this plaque is a 1952 replica of the original 1937 plaque. I suspect that the 1937 plaque was probably made out of wood since iron would have been scarce during the years of the Great Depression.

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