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08/01/2022

Born as Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., John Denver wrote and performed pop and CW music. As an Air Force family, they moved many times ending up in Fort Worth where he graduated from Arlington Heights High School. The happiest times of his childhood were spent at his grandmother's farm in Oklahoma, where he heard classic country music and when his other grandmother gifted him an antique Gibson guitar. Denver wrote many songs with "Leaving on a Jet Plane" becoming his first hit when it was recorded by folk superstars Peter, Paul and Mary.
In 1971, he emerged as a star with "Take Me Home, Country Roads." Because my posts are all about home, I chose this one to include. Denver then wrote other hits like "Thank God I'm a Country Boy," "Annie's Song (dedicated to his first wife), "Sunshine on My Shoulders," and the ode to Colorado called "Rocky Mountain High."
An avid flyer, he crashed his newly purchased plane into the ocean on October 12, 1997 and died instantly.
Remind us to go home John Denver.

all wish we could go back home, wherever that may be, when we hear this song. We all have our own West Virginia.I just ...

07/14/2022

Here's another song on the "Home" theme. "My Old Kentucky Home" is the state song of, you guessed it, Kentucky. Written in 1853 by the Father of American Music, Stephen Foster, it is sung annually at Churchill Downs before the running of the Kentucky Derby. Foster was a prolific songwriter who lived a short tragic life. Some of his other songs include "Oh! Suzanna," "Camptown Races," "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair," and "Old Folks at Home" (also known as Swanee River).
Here's a video of the cast from the "Stephen Foster Story" singing "My Old Kentucky Home." https://youtu.be/_W5kQuHHGM8

06/22/2022

If you call Texas home, then you can identify with the lyrics to a country western song by Bret Mullins called "Home Sweet Texas."
"There's beaches, canyons, Hill Country, cactus, big trees, big sky big buckles this wide, longhorns, longnecks, bar-be-que, Tex-Mex, Billy Bob's, Greune Hall, a million other h***y tonks.
"There's cowboys, cowgirls, stallback, big girl, wranglers, ropers, King Ranch drovers, livestock, rodeo, Six Flags, a yellow rose, bluebonnets in the spring, and Blue Bell ice cream.
Chorus: "I've been all across the USA, east of New York, west of LA. Met a lot of nice folks in a lot of nice places, but I'm hanging my hat in home sweet Texas."
"There's Rangers, Rangerettes, Amarillo sunsets, Dallas, Fort Worth, Nacogdoches red dirt, Houston city life, Abilene starry night, Austin city limits, everywhere the thread has been made.
"Ya got the State Fair, Cotton Bowl, Riverwalk, the Alamo, tubing on the Guadalupe, new Lucchese custom boots, fried chicken, beef ribs, rattlesnake chili, Bob Wills, Ray Price, George Strait, and Willie.
Chorus repeat.
"There's wildcat oil wells, possum on the half-shell, shrimp boats, h***y toads, spaceships and jackalopes, ride with girl, Billy Joe and Rusty Weir, Jerry Jeff, Pat Green and Lone Star Beer.
Chorus repeat.
"Just in case you haven't missed it, my heaven on earth is Home Sweet Texas."
Type in this for the video: https://youtu.be/7d1buZubdxY

05/31/2022

“On the house” is an idiom meaning “free of charge,” usually at the expense of the establishment serving the public.
The earliest reference found was an article entitled “The Insolence of Office,” in the Weekly Union Sentinel (South Carolina), published on September 21, 1877. It said, “Yesterday afternoon, two professional dead beats, known as spotters in the revenue department of the United States Government, went into a saloon kept by a respectable citizen and demanded an inspection of the cigar boxes. The clerk complied with their demand and showed up with the cigar boxes, which were found to be regularly stamped. One of these officers then proposed to have drinks “on the house,” a proposition which the house failed to agree to, whereupon the other beat remarked, ‘never mind. I know the old __, and I’ll have him up in less than a week.’”

In the 1880s, the phrase was often used in reference to free first drinks for customers at saloons, implying that it was “on the house’s tab.” Throughout the 20th century, the phrase extended to other businesses providing complimentary food and drink to their customers. Retailers have also come to use the phrase during promotional offers as a way of enticing new customers to try their product or business.
In real estate terms, the realtor’s service is “on the house” for a buyer as their commission is comes from the seller’s funds at closing. My service will be worth it to you.

05/05/2022

It's a deep desire for most of us to have a home described by this late 19th - early 20th century author and pastor, Henry van D**e.

A Home Song by Henry van D**e

I read within a poet's book
A word that starred the page:
"Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage!"

Yes, that is true; and something more
You'll find, where'er you roam,
That marble floors and gilded walls
Can never make a home.

But every house where Love abides,
And Friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home-sweet-home:
For there the heart can rest.

04/28/2022

The story behind the story of "You Can't Go Home Again:"
"You Can’t Go Home Again" is a novel written by Thomas Wolfe which was published in 1940, some two years after his death in 1938. Using parts of a manuscript never released to the public, Wolfe’s editor composed this novel along with two others. Wolfe took the title of his book and the theme of the story from a conversation with the writer Ella Winter, who remarked to Wolfe: “Don’t you know you can’t go home again?”
This book tells the fictional story of George Webber, a fledgling author, who writes a book that makes frequent references to his hometown called Libya Hill, which, in reality, was Asheville, North Carolina. In the story, the residents of the town became unhappy with what they view as Webber’s distorted depiction of them and expressed their displeasure by sending the author menacing letters and death threats.
When Webber returns to that town, he is shaken by the force of outrage and hatred that greeted him. Family and friends felt undressed and exposed by what they had read in his books and their fury drives him out of town.
Now an outcast, George Webber begins a search for his identity. He traveled to New York, then Paris, and then Berlin, where he found the town to be cold and sinister living under Hitler’s shadow. His journey completed a full circle when Webber returns home to America and rediscovers it with love, sorrow, and hope.
Most of us identify this story on the family level and with George Webber being a type of Prodigal Son. But the good news is you can go home again, especially when your family welcomes all its members in a place called home.

09/23/2021

This is Winslow Homer's painting entitled "Home, Sweet Home" courtesy of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. It depicts the state of two Union soldiers who are dreaming of going home. Their shelter is but a small tent, they have very little to eat, and a uniform that they've lived in for quite some time. All of us, our soldiers especially, long to go home.

09/09/2021

"There's no place like home." Many of us remember this classic line made by Dorothy Gale's character (played by Judy Garland) in the 1939 musical "The Wizard of Oz." Instructed by Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, if Dorothy would tap the heels of her ruby slippers three times and repeat that sentence, she would go home to Kansas.
For years, I thought this line originated with the 1823 play "Clari, the Maid of Milan" written by John Howard Payne. Payne also included the lines of "Home, home, sweet sweet home. There's no place like home."
But the phrase seems to go farther back historically as it was a commonly used proverb in England for many years as evidenced by a newspaper article in 1781 called The Bath Chronicle.
"The Wizard of Oz" was an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's novel entitled "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and the movie is considered to be the most seen film in movie history. When it was first introduced in 1939, the movie barely made a profit even though it was very popular with moviegoers. It wasn't until it was re-released in 1949 that it made money and then was first broadcast on TV in 1956 even though most homes did not have a color TV set.
If you would like to look for a home that you can repeat Dorothy's line of "There's no place like home," email me at [email protected].

05/16/2018

Fun Real Estate Trivia: Did you know you can buy real estate on the moon?

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05/15/2018

FSBO often sounds like a tempting idea, but selling your home without an agent can be a real challenge.

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