Park Reserve Eats and Garage Sale Recap

We had around a dozen homes with garage sales in our 1st annual neighborhood garage sale this past week and most people I spoke with brought in around $200 and some $1000. Not bad for re-purposed excess stuff!
I'll be organizing another sale next year around the same time so plan ahead and save your stuff. Next year, I'll ask for addresses of those that are participating and put a list on the website.

Park Reserve Eats -- my daughters have begun to find ripe rasberries in the park reserve. Last year, there were lots of them all along the bike trail from the beach all the way to the tubing area. Nothing like picking and eating fresh rasberries in the summer! There are also good wild plums along the path towards the drive down to the swimming beach. Look on the right in the 200 yards before you turn down the hill from the bike path -- we picked lots of those last year too, small and sweet.

Enjoy the summer and the park -- what a gem we have in our neighborhood!

I'd like to showcase neighborhood businesses on this website.
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NEIGHBORHOOD GARAGE SALE - 7/8, 9 and 10

Thursday, Friday and Saturday July 8, 9 and 10.
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Multiple family garage sales - lots of treasures to find!

Signs will be posted at the entrances to the neighborhood.

Windows

Our homes are approaching and in many cases, passing 20 years of age. With age, my home is starting to need more attention. One of the items needing attention are windows.
When it gets real cold outside, I get moisture and if cold enough, ice forming on the inside of my windows. I found that my windows weren't argon-filled but rather vacuum between the double panes of glass and the vacuum was actually causing the two panes to touch, negating the vacuum's energy efficiency benefits.
Provided your wood frames are in decent shape, you may not have to replace the entire window. You may be able to simply replace the glass inserts as I did.
Replacing the glass inserts can be as simple as calling the manufacturer and ordering new inserts or you can remove the glass slider or crank-out portion and bring them to a window company (i.e., Scherer Brothers) or to a glass insert manufacturer.
We have a glass insert manufacturer right here in Minneapolis. (this contact is from a real estate investor I know) The glass manufacturer is Brin Northwestern Glass, (612) 529-9671 or www.BrinGlass.com and the cost when I called about some windows was around $100 per pane - much cheaper and easier than custom-ordering and paying to install windows in your existing openings.
Drop me a line with other questions or ideas of how to maintain our homes on a budget.