Happy Friday to you all! It seems like this week has lasted a month. I’ve had to double check a couple of times today just to make sure that it really is Friday. But today has been well worth the wait. I had a great lunch with an old friend at a local barbecue establishment. We had a great time. It reminded me of how much I really love a great barbecue restaurant. I have fond childhood memories of riding with my father out to Irondale on the old Atlanta Highway near Birmingham to have lunch at the original Golden Rule.  He and I have eaten at a lot of different barbecue joints in Birmingham over the past 25 or so years, but the Golden Rule in Irondale was always the default choice for a quick meal when I was growing up. Even now, whenever I have the chance to visit with my parents, I secretly hope that a tender and tangy sliced pork sandwich followed by a slice of creamy lemon icebox pie Will be on the menu. Read the rest of this entry »

Happy Friday everybody! Another wonderful week is in the books. The weather wasn’t fantastic but for some reason, things are finally beginning to seem like they are getting back to normal after the holidays. I have been on daddy duty form most of this week because Carlen is out of town and I have had a great time with the girls.  The girls, as they usually are when I am left in charge, were skeptical at first, but after a couple of nights of cookies and ice cream for dinner, their fears were quickly assauged. They have never been so well behaved. What can I say. I just have the right touch.

I hope that you are getting back in the swing of things. I would really like your input on different topics that you would lie to see covered on this blog. I am hoping that 2012 will see an upgrade in content and utility for this blog. I’d like for it to be a real useful resource for the local real estate community. If any of you have any ideas, please let me know. In the meantime, keep planting those seeds! Have a great weekend!   Read the rest of this entry »

Happy Friday from the 3rd floor of the Regency Center. The fog is rolling in from the West and it looks like it is going to be a dismal weekend weather wise, but it will still be the weekend.

Now that we are back in the swing if things, we are excited about 2012. There seems to be a lot of optimism in the local market about the upcoming year and it seems like we are making new friends everyday. Today, I even got a call from an old friend. Just as networker extraordinaire George Moore tells me all the time, “you never know which seeds you plant are going to sprout. If you plant enough seeds a few will grow in to big oak trees.” Keep planting those seeds. When the Sun comes out, those seeds will begin to sprout. Read the rest of this entry »

Happy Friday to all of you! I hope that 2012 has treated you well so far.  Unlike the past couple of years, we have not had horrible winter weather so you would think that it would be easy to get back into the swing of things after a wonderful holiday season. But even given the most ideal of conditions, it is never easy to return from relaxed quality time with your family to the hustle and bustle of our everyday lives. But you gotta do what you gotta do to get back in the swing of things.  After all, as the video below reminds us: It don’t mean a thing if you ain’t got that swing.  I will have a great time tonight terrorizing my family by reminding them in my best singing voice that it don’t mean a thing….I will give great emphasis to the part after the words where I pretend to be the brass section. It’s really a lot of fun even if everybody else in your family looks at you like you are crazy.  I encourage you to give it a shot if you are into that sort of thing. Read the rest of this entry »