Greetings Fellow Life Travelers:

Snow at last!  Thursday was hunker-in day, watching a new blanket cover the grounds.  The heavens quieted down for Valentine’s evening, allowing all the dinner reservations to be honored.  I tried to get a res for Saturday with some friends and couldn’t find one availability between 5:15 and 8PM.  So, guess what?  Dinner guests!  Thank you, Raley’s O.N.E. for your presence near where I live. And, I have easy parking.  Wonder what was easy in real estate this week? Let’s take a look. 

Residential Real Estate – week 2/8 – 2/14  

• Tahoe Sierra MLS – North/West Shores & Truckee.  New Listings – 21; Escrows – 9; Solds – 16
• Incline Village/Crystal Bay MLS.  New Listings – 3; Escrows – 5; Solds – 1
• East Shore, NV MLS.  New Listings – 1; Escrows – 3; Solds – 1
• Reno/Sparks MLS.  New Listings – 116; Escrows – 130; Solds – 100

Weather took its toll on action at Tahoe/Truckee this week. Will be fun to see results end of this week with little impediment to travel and this 3-day weekend. 

Local/Real Estate/Luxe

• SNOWFEST!  Now that we have snow, we talk about the annual regional 10-day festival celebrating the community, unique mountain culture and local businesses and organizations.  Feb 26 – March 9.  50 events and a fireworks display!  www.tahoesnowfest.org
• Dope is King!  Plumas Ski Club’s Longboard Races take place every third Sunday in February and March, conditions allowing, in Johnsville, about an hour north of Truckee off Hwy 89. Longboards are 14’ long, and dope is the special wax developed for ski racing by miners in the 1860s.  Johnsville has been hosting the Longboard Revival Races since 1993.
• Easyplant:  Have the plant of your choice delivered to your home. It comes with a special dispenser for water that is filled once a month for the perfect amount for the specific plant.  www.easyplant.com
• Fitness for your dog.  Just learned that some Fi collars include fitness reporting…i.e., hours of sleep and steps.  There are even dog breeds that compete on line for steps taken each day! 
• Truckee Community Theater is prolific!  Opened this weekend and performing next weekend is PUFFS, the untold story of the underdog house at a certain famous wizarding school.  Truckee Community Arts Center.
• Teens for Tahoe Giving Circle – initiative of Tahoe Fund. 10-week virtual course open to 25 high school students in grades 9- 12. Participants will gain valuable experience in philanthropy, learn about nonprofit organizations, effective giving strategies, and financial analysis.  At the end of the course, participants will have $10,000 to distribute to a project of their choice from Tahoe Fund’s portfolio of environmental improvement projects. Applications will be accepted through March 7 with anticipated start date in early April. www.tahoefund.org

Entertainment

• Jackie & Shadow – weathering the storm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXcNAUL8cPU

TidBits

• Medical Terms:  Artery = The study of paintings.  Bacteria = Back door to cafeteria.  Barium = When patients die.  Benign = What you be after you be eight.  Caesarean Section = A neighborhood in Rome.  Cat scan = Searching for Kitty.  Cauterize = Made eye contact with her.  Colic = A sheep dog.  Coma = a punctuation mark.
• When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.  C.S. Lewis
• When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.  Maya Angelou
• You’d can’t make a good deal with a bad person.  Warren Buffet
• My setter pup, left alone one night, made confetti of about half of my [manuscript] book. Two months’ work to do over again. It set me back. There was no other draft. I was pretty mad but the poor little fellow may have been acting critically. John Steinbeck on his mischievous Irish setter, Toby, who ate half of the first manuscript of “Of Mice and Men”.
• My shoelace broke today.  Some people would blame Donald Trump, but I know it’s because of global warming.
• Picked up a hitch-hiker.  Seemed like a nice guy.  After a few miles, he asked me if I was afraid that he might be a serial killer?  I told him the odds of two serial killers being in the same car were extremely unlikely.
• A man asked his wife, “what would you do if I won the lottery?”  She replied, “I’d take half and leave you.”  “Great”, he said. “I won $12.  Here’s $6. Stay in touch.”
• Therapist:  Your wife says you never buy her flowers.  Is that true? Him: To be honest, I never knew she sold flowers.
• The three hardest things to say are:  1) I was wrong 2) I need help 3) Worcestershire Sauce
• Me (sobbing my heart out, eyes swollen, nose red): “I can’t see you anymore.  I am not going to let you hurt me like this again. Trainer: “It was a sit up. You did one sit up.”
• If there’s anything you should stop wearing after the age of 40, it’s other people’s opinions.  Mother of Heathens
• If two days pass and I have not asked for a Manhattan, a glass of Chardonnay or chocolate, go ahead and pull the plug.  
• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.  C.S. Lewis
• I’ve always believed that luck is when preparation meets opportunity.  Tom Coughlin, Super Bowl Coach
• It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?  Henry David Thoreau
• Oh, be grateful that, no matter how many pieces of cake you eat, your earrings will always fit.  Mother of Heathens
• I don’t wanna party like it’s 1999, I wanna grocery shop like it’s 1999.  M of H

Amen!  Thanks for reading, have a great week and see you next time!

Best wishes, 

Trinkie