Tahoe Update - August 2nd

Greetings Fellow Life Travelers:

Off into August and some of the final summer activities.  The fabulous wooden boat show at Obexers on the West Shore is next Friday and Saturday.  The League to Save Lake Tahoe’s Oscar fashion show/lunch was yesterday, August 1…major fundraiser for Keep Tahoe Blue. And this coming Thursday, Aug 6, will be last Truckee Thursdays.  Music in the Park, Truckee, has 4 more Wednesdays, ending August 26.  Trails and Vistas’ Art Hikes – now sold out - will take place August 22 & 23.  

Savoie!  Finally had a great time seeing the new incarnation of this restaurant, and what a treat!  Beautiful renovation and addition to the North Shore community.  We didn’t have a res, so got seats at the bar for drinks and nibbles…best French Fries ever along with delicious pâté.  Had a nice visit with owner and chef, Mark Sullivan, and was delighted to see Peter, who has been a waiter in our area for years, first at Moody’s, then The Lodge at Tahoe Donner.  The place was humming and it was just after 5PM.  Now let’s see what happened this last week in real estate.

Residential Real Estate – week 7/25 – 7/31

Tahoe Sierra had a North Shore $4.2M lakefront – on the market for many moons – finally go to escrow.  Incline/Crystal Bay had a Crystal Bay home, Chase listing, come on at $16.9M, an Incline Eastern Slope listed at $11.5M go to escrow and a Stillwater Cove condo listed at $10.195M in contract.  The East Shore had a new listing at $39.5, part of the already-listed Shakespear Ranch, including the lakefront owner’s home plus a cabana and two additional lots.  Chase had a $7.8M listing in Glenbrook go to escrow.  

Local/Real Estate/Luxe

• Boatworks Mall and adjoining property – Tahoe City -  Auction August 12.  Great history here, will be interesting to see what comes next.

• Steve Schmier’s Jewelry – Michael Grant, Owner – Tahoe City.  This fabulous jewelry store is closing August 15 with ongoing in-store sales now.  Great loss for us!  Wonderful history here: https://steveschmiersjewelry.com/meet-mike-grant

• Truckee’s Historical Haunted Tour – another sell-out event – October 15 & 16 – Adults only.  Tickets on sale now -  https://tinyurl.com/yuybrdaf

• Millions of Butterflies now in Tahoe – California Tortoiseshell – will be here until they leave for the winter.  Tahoe Fund

• State of the Lake – 2025:  Winter months show more clarity, summer less.  Part of reason is the silt that comes from the Upper Truckee River, genesis the Truckee River Marsh South.  Barton Hospital has given a matching fund up to $25,000 towards mitigating efforts to clean this up.  Info: https://tinyurl.com/95hmvpr9

UC Davis TERC State of the Lake Report & Tahoe Fund

• 42nd National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Elko, MV – Jan 25 – 30, 2027.  Member tickets available August 10, public tickets – September 10.  https://www.nationalcowboypoetrygathering.org/

TidBits

• Assume life will be really tough and then ask if you can handle it.  If the answer is yes, you’ve won!  Charlie Unger

• If you always want more, then you’ll find the most you can have will always be too little. James Clear

• Sign: Viagra shipment stolen.  Cops looking for gang of hardened criminals.

• Bought a new pair of shoes with Memory Foam insoles.  No more forgetting why I walked into the kitchen.

• Employer:  We have a companywide 401K.  Me: I don’t think I can run that far.

• I’m not old.  I’m 25 plus shipping and handling.

• German Shepherds:  2% minding their business, 98% minding yours. 

• Do you want to know the worst part about kissing a perfect 10?   It’s how cold the mirror feels on your lips.

• Better sexy and racy than sexist and racist.  Stephen Frye

• A bottle of water can cost $1 at the grocery store, $3 at a restaurant, $4 at the movies and $6 at the airport.  The bottle of water didn’t change. What changed was its location.  So the next time you feel that you have no value, maybe you’re just in the wrong place.  Mother of Heathens

• The people who make fitted sheets need to sit down with the people who make mattresses and get on the same page.  Making the bed shouldn’t be like putting a swim cap over a refrigerator. 

• Date the man who plans the trip, not the man who ‘would love to travel someday’.  Someday is not a destination. 

• Some of you come from the ‘If you quit crying, I’ll buy you something’ generation.  We come from the ‘If you don’t quit crying, I’ll give you something to cry about’ generation. We’re not the same. 

• The best part about camping is when you wake up in a hotel room on a beach in Hawaii instead. 

Totally my style.  Sleeping on dirt goes WAY back in my history.  Have a luxurious week and see you next time!

Best wishes,