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San Juan Islands Real Estate: San Juan and Friday Harbor, Orcas and Eastsound, Lopez Island, Shaw Island and the Outer San Juan Islands

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An Island Wedding

September 7th, 2010 by Diana

The field had been mowed and the fragrant hay was rolled up into huge circular bales, wrapped in white plastic, and stacked out of the way. The gate to the field was open with several acres for cars to park. In one corner there was a barbeque going full force and there were tables laden with food and coolers full of wine and soft drinks and water. The day was sunny and bright and many guests choose to relax in the white tent that had been rented for the event.

It was an island wedding, with guests from… read full article

The Oyster

September 3rd, 2010 by Kathryn

For a true oyster lover – the purists, if you will – just thinking of eating fresh oysters can induce instant recall of the cucumber-fresh, briny meat fairly smacking of the sea and tangy minerals.
However, lovers of shellfish… read full article

Seniors today have many options…..

August 30th, 2010 by Bette

Taken from the weekly newsletter at Realtor®.org

They can select a home in an independent living community, an active adult community with or without age restrictions or communities that offer continuing care options – as well as all the traditional… read full article

The Gift of a Tourist

August 26th, 2010 by Diana

Roundabout the end of July, the people on San Juan Island can start getting, shall we say, a tad bit irritated with the tourist congestion. At our island, the ferry lets cars and people off in Friday Harbor, our main… read full article

Dungeness Crab

August 22nd, 2010 by Kathryn

Few seafood delicacies draw such unanimous praise as the Dungeness crab. Named after the town of Dungeness on the Olympic Peninsula where the first commercial harvesting of this crab was done, it is the only commercially important crab in the… read full article

How your Home compares with National Housing Figures

August 18th, 2010 by Bette

Are you curious about how your home compares with the national housing figures?
Here is a segment of a very interesting collection of statistics that Mark Brian, Silver Star Real Estate compiled from HUD’s 2009 American Housing Survey (AHS).… read full article

The Joys of Scaling Down

August 14th, 2010 by Diana

Scaling Down, Downsizing, Cutting Back, Minimizing, Simplifying: there are many words we use for sorting through our things and releasing our control of them to others. Formerly thought of as, well, second-class, currently the handed down item is now a… read full article

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