Greetings Fellow Life Travelers:

Another beautiful Tahoe week with perfect weather.  Had a houseguest for several days that were filled with dinner guests, lunches out, book club dinner and review, Tahoe Lakefront Owner’s Assn. annual meeting, a lakefront listing signup and Boat Show opening night dinner.  And we put an ‘off-market’ lakefront into escrow!  All the intense social stuff seems to happen between July 1 and mid-August.  With school starting soon, things will simmer down a bit for hopefully a glorious fall.  Let’s see what took place this week in our Tahoe markets.

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

• Tahoe Sierra MLS – North/West Shores & Truckee.  New Listings – 35; Escrows – 40; Solds – 18
• Incline Village/Crystal Bay MLS.  New listings – 14; Escrows – 14; Solds – 10
• East Shore, NV MLS.  New Listings – 5; Escrows – 3; Solds – 0
• Reno/Sparks MLS.  New Listings – 117; Escrows – 133; Solds – 99

Martis Camp had a new listing at $12.995m, a Dollar Point lakefront listed at $6.9m went to escrow, and a lakefront that started at $10.2m, reduced to $8.495m sold for $7.995m.  An Incline Village lakefront listed at $49.m sold for $37.5m, and a Stillwater Cove unit listed at $6.5m sold for $6.075m.  

Local/Real Estate/Luxe

• Posting on FB, no idea this location: “Today, a loose cow was corralled at the Walmart 5 mins away from our

house and they were putting out calls and looking for the owner. Finally, this lady shows up to rope and take her cow home riding a horse BAREBACK and WEARING HER BABY on her front. That was such an epic western scene to watch. Well, I can’t really decide if I’m horrified or want to be this lady’s best friend.”

• Remote ship piloting:  Denmark is testing technology that enables pilots to virtually board and guide vessels into ports.  Remote pilotage is one of several emerging technologies including autonomous ships and robotic cargo handling under development. Piloting ships from shore can save fuel, cut costs and curb pollution because enormous ships don’t have to slow down for pilots. 
• Coming Soon: A merger of Oreos and Reese’s peanut butter cups!  After many moons of testing, secrecy and debate, it’s predicted to hit the market in the fall.  No idea what it’s to be called. 
• Guilty Pleasures: Stock prices of Marlboro cigarette-maker Altria are up more than 21% this year; Molson Coors’ prices are down more than 13%.  Nicotine pouches are new engine of growth. New news about alcohol’s adverse effects on health are slowing that segment of the market. Non-alcoholic drinks blossom, and tobacco companies are testing more-affordable cigarettes and smoke-free pouches.  Ugh! 
• Good Reads: We just read The Consequence of Anna, an intriguing, unusual read based on true facts.  Fodder for great discussion.  Next up is Raising Hare: A Memoir, finalist for the 2025 Women’s Prize. One comment, “Moving…imparts valuable lessons about slowing down and the beauty in the unexpected.”

Entertainment

• Clint Eastwoods debut: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-DL5B0If6Ss

TidBits

• 1) People are made to be loved.  Things are made to be used. A lot of chaos in the world now is because things are being loved and people are being used.  2) You can say, “have a nice day”, but if you say, ‘enjoy the next 24 hours”, you sound like a threat.  3) My dream job is driving that karma bus.  4) Not being really rich is turning out to be an inconvenience for me.  Mother of Heathens
• A slice of apple pie in Jamaica is $2.00.  It is $2.50 in the Bahamas.  These are the Pie Rates of the Caribbean.
• I’m reading a book about anti-gravity.  It’s impossible to put down.
• A lumberjack went into a magic forest to cut a tree.  Upon arrival he started to swing at the tree when it shouted, “Wait! I’m a talking tree!”  The lumberjack grinned and said, “You will dialogue”.  
• There was a big paddle sale at the boat store.  It was quite an oar deal.
• My wife called to tell me she saw a fox on the way to work.  I asked her how she knew it was on its way to work. She hung up on me.
• I once dated a girl with a lazy eye.  I always thought she was seeing someone on the side. 
• I accidentally passed my wife a glue stick instead of a chap stick.  She’s still not talking to me.
• It’s common to think about what you would like to accomplish. It’s less common to think about what must be discarded to make space for your new endeavors.  The time must come from somewhere.  What do you need to give up to make space for what you would like to achieve?  James Clear
• All you need is love.  But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.  Charles Schulz
• When I was a boy, the Dead Sea was only sick.  George Burns
• Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.  Olive Wendell Holmes
• Even if I wanted to go, my schedule wouldn’t allow it.  4:00, wallow in self-pity; 4:30 stare into the abyss; 5:00 solve the world hunger, tell no one; 5:30 Jazzercise; 6:30 dinner with me – I can’t cancel that again; 7:00 wrestle with my self-loathing – I’m booked!  The Grinch, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• People cannot drive you crazy if you don’t give them the keys. Mike Bechtle
• By all means, move at a glacial pace.  You know how that thrills me.  Miranda Priestly, The Devil Wears Prada
• It’s just a job.  Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.  I beat people up.  Muhammad Ali
• I can’t wait for tomorrow because I get prettier every day.  Muhammad Ali 

Have a good-looking week and see you next time!  

Best wishes,

Trinkie