DAYTONA BEACH The momentum from the surge in home sales in the second half of 2020 in Volusia and Flagler counties has continued into the new year, the latest reports from area Realtor associations show.
Ormond Beach Realtor Kelly Ferguson didn t need to wait for the January home sales reports to know that.
The agent with Geri Westfall Real Estate closed five home sales in a single day in late January. It was the most she s ever done in a 24-hour period since she began her career as a Realtor in 2017. Jan. 29 was a wild day. I started at 8 a.m. and worked until 8 p.m., said Ferguson of the five transactions.
The Idle American: Special grandmothers .
Brownwood Bulletin
Recent conversations okay, maybe just banter have me thinking heavily about grandmothers. Those who’ve had the nurturing of two are doubly blessed. (I knew just one, since the flu epidemic in the 1920s took one away several years prior to my birth.)
They constitute a special group, these grandmothers who answer to many names, some of which they’ve chosen to announce to grandchildren. In some cases, we old-timers respond to IDs slapped on us by kids and grands. They’re usually endearing names with special meanings.
Grandmothers’ influence typically is mighty, often reviewed and claimed long after they are gone. Memories are made of such, and some of our mind’s keenest recollections may be viewed by others as minutia. Stuck in my memory is Dora May Newbury, whose quiet expressions of love are remembered mostly from Christmas times. Included is the simple decoration of a small gnarled mesquite limb masqueradin