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Ingrid Gabriel: BRA CALCULUS

One of the things I discovered when I joined the Violet Shampoo for Silver Hair Rewards Club was that I started doing a cost benefit analysis for almost every aspect of my life based on a…

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Mike Vouri: Walking Through History: The Frazer Homestead Trail

My setter Iris and I hiked the Frazer-Homestead trail recently at American Camp for the first time together in more than a year. We started out on the South Beach trail, but a bitter southeast wind…

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March 13: Continuing on with our series of Seniors Gone Wild and our deep dive into aging hijinks, today we explore the potential of Creaky Yoga. Full disclosure, I had a mild aversion to the Western…

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Mooring Buoys What is the Delay?

For many years, the County, Native American Tribes and State agencies preferred and approved the permits for the installation of mooring buoys versus docks or anchorage. The buoys have much less impact to eel grass and…

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Real Estate Market Update: 18 houses for sale on Orcas; 34 on San Juan Island

Here is the Real Estate Market Snap Shot from the Simonson and Zambrovitz Team at Coldwell Banker SJI.

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Ingrid Gabriel: Li’l Pappy

Feb 27, 2023 - These days, I go to bed with an air hose sticking out of the top of my head courtesy of my new best friend. Li’l Pappy is a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure…

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Mike Vouri: England’s Royals: A History of Troublesome Heirs and Spares

There’s nothing like a royal sibling rivalry to start tongues wagging by the town pump or emblazon the literature in the supermarket checkout stand. These days the buzz is all about Prince Harry Windsor’s sensational autobiography,…

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Merri Ann Simonson San Juan Island Real Estate Market Update

Here is the February Market Snap Shot as offered by the Simonson and Zambrovitz Team from Coldwell Banker SJI. Inventory is starting to build and hopefully the number of Pending transactions will follow suit.

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March 31 deadline for Coldwell Banker San Juan Islands Showcase

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Tide Bites: Searching for Sea Squirts by Megan Powers

INTRODUCTION by Dr. Megan Dethier, FHL Director Most people are aware of the concept of invasive species – plants or animals that don’t “belong” in a given area and end up disrupting the local ecology in…

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Merri Ann Simonson's Real Estate Update: 2022 volume was $380,610,000 compared to 2021's $567,862,152

As noted below we had a correction in our market relating to dollar volume and number of transactions during 2022. We returned to a much more balanced approach with transaction negotiations during the last half of…

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Real Estate Updates: San Juan Island Market Share

Below is the year-end 2022 market share report offered by the Simonson and Zambrovitz Team. As you can note Coldwell Banker San Juan Islands Inc. is the place to work as a broker and the place…

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Metta Musings by Deb Langhans: Introducing MARI®

When was the last time you had an authentic heart-to-heart with yourself, a conversation that accessed truth & reality below the surface of your everyday, keep-up-appearances life?

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Mike Vouri: Black Ice, White Christmas and the Kindness of Strangers

I made it home for the holidays on San Juan Island after a tough week in the San Francisco Bay Area and a journey that seemed right out of the film, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles.” For…

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