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Wednesdays Unplugged – Chicken Tetrazzini

NOTE: I spend my Wednesdays Unplugged from appointments. It's my day to stay home, enjoy cooking and welcome our kids and grandkids for dinner in the evening. We end our meal with quotes...
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Peeling Paint On Redwood Siding: What To Do?

I've seen it happen at countless houses, and now it's happened to me… my paint is peeling (again).  I have a Minneapolis home that was built in 1939 with redwood...
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Twin Cities Real Estate Market Update – April median sale price up for 4th month in a row

Median sale price went up again last month for the fourth month in a row for the first time in nearly six years… last time was June 2004. At 11% over...
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Sunday’s Site – Dodge Nature Center, West St Paul

NOTE: see the bottom of Sunday's Site posts for homes for sale in the area Located on 320 acres in the heart of West St. Paul and Mendota Heights, Dodge Nature Center was...
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Staging Your Home With Pets

I was in a home this week that had a dog.  I LOVE animals, but when I see a pet in a home, my advice is to remove it while the...
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Walkable Communities

Is your ideal neighborhood a walkable one? One with cafes, markets, transit, parks & trails nearby? I recently read an article which talked about how "New Urbanism" is creating  human-scale communities as a reaction to...
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Where is HomesMSP? – restaurants in houses

Get to know the Twin Cities… follow HomesMSP daily throughout the metro, spot familiar sites and learn about some new ones, a different theme each week. Check in at http://www.homesmspblog/where_is_homesmsp?...
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Back to basics…

Over the last couple of years the mortgage industry has made several changes and most of them have made our life a little more difficult.  For those of us that...
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Wednesdays Unplugged – Orange Baked Pork Tenderloin

NOTE: I spend my Wednesdays Unplugged from appointments. It's my day to stay home, enjoy cooking and welcome our kids and grandkids for dinner in the evening. We end our meal with quotes...
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My Beef With One-And-One-Half Story Houses

 I've lived in a one-and-one-half story house in Minneapolis for the last six years, and I feel like I've earned the right to complain about them.  My main beef with...
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