Sense of Place

A bit of the country in the city…creating ‘your place’

Whatever home you buy, it's never really 'yours' until you put a piece of yourself into it. We were invited to dinner recently by a young couple I helped buy a...
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Sunday’s Site – Byerly’s…not your ordinary corner grocery

NOTE: see the bottom of Sunday's Site posts for homes for sale in the area One of my favorite remembrances of living in Duluth was walking down to Snow White, the corner neighborhood...
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Sunday’s Site – Luce Line Trail, Plymouth

NOTE: see the bottom of Sunday's Site posts for homes for sale in the area Whenever I start working with a homebuyer we talk what they want to have around their new home…location,...
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Open Sky

I grew up on a farm in the Red River Valley of North Dakota, on land that was once the bottom of glacial Lake Agassiz. Where we lived had some...
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Sunday’s Site – Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary, Minneapolis

NOTE: see the bottom of Sunday's Site posts for homes for sale in the area I always find it amazing how big an impact your surroundings can have on you and how you...
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House Blessings

Rituals come easily to many families.  We naturally think to celebrate birthdays, weddings and anniversaries, etc.  But what about moving into a new home?    Changing residence is a time of...
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Sunday’s Site – Lake Wobegon

NOTE: see the bottom of Sunday's Site posts for homes for sale in the area There is nothing quite so quintessentially Minnesotan as Garrison Keillor's mythical town of Lake Wobegon so it only...
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Location, Location…two sides to the story

When I asked the owner of a property I currently have listed in Burnsville what she loves about living there, the first thing she said was "it's right below the...
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