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The Fresno Bee reported yesterday that the county has spent more than four years on a proposal to hike building fees.  According to the article “the county fee for a house in unincorporated Fresno County generally would be $4,399. In Fresno, the fee would be $3,357. The fee would be added to other development fees [...]

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We all want to save money so when the AC when out on our Honda Odyssey I called the dealer and was told diagnosis would run $106.00. So I called a local mechanic in the neighborhood and he told me he would charge $30.00 to run a diagnostic. Well, he had me at $30.00 so [...]

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For many years I have been a member of Kaiser Permanente and as the years wear on the premiums and what I pay for service and drugs increases. This year the premium for my wife and I was raised to $826.00 and I opted to switch over to an HSA which has reduced our premium [...]

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Awhile back I posted the first portrait I took. Tonight I completed my first digital collage. I assembled the images I captured when I visited the Review (subject of a former blog) but for those who dont know, the Review is a coffee house in Fresno’s Tower District. Here it is: Please remember that all [...]

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Help beautify Fresno by purchasing a home with a green pool through Lazarus Realty. I will *pay for the cost of draining, cleaning and refilling the pool. When complete you will have a sparkling BLUE pool. Did you know that Fresno has over 1000 **GREEN POOLS and that these green pools are a breeding ground [...]

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…regarding the ducks that made themselves at home in our backyard pool (read the blog). When my youngest son left for school he saw the female duck lying dead on Fruit Street, run over by a car. Shortly thereafter the male waddled over to our front door and called for my wife (the duck whisperer). [...]

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Yesterday, as I often do, I drove around the neighborhood View Larger Map looking for open houses to preview. Their weren’t many which is one of the good things about this area: very low turnover. It’s not a great market for the real estate agent who “farms a neighborhood” for that very reason. Many of [...]

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Well they wont be secret spots for long because I am going to share them with you. If you like to camp and if you like to get out in the early spring when the poppies are in bloom and hills are alive with color and if you enjoy relative seclusion and privacy (but still [...]

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Yesterday I went fishing with my oldest son. Our destination was  Mill Flat Creek which is to small tributary to the upper Kings River above pine flat reservoir. Here are some pictures I was able to get. While the pictures are pretty nice they don’t really tell half the story. In some places the hills [...]

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Fresno Autorama … and got a lot of pics.  I went with a couple of my boys and a couple of their friends.  They lost enthusiasm once they cruised the entire show.  I was taking my time looking and shooting pics and if I didnt have them with me would have probably spent a couple [...]

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