Kathy's Blog

March 20th, 2009 Today, the first day of spring, came to Door County wrapped in sparkling frost.  After a week of warmth and sunshine, we woke to winter temperature and hungry birds vying for position at the bird feeders for seeds to supply their tiny bodies with energy.  Looking out of my window...

DOOR COUNTY AS A RETIREMENT DESTINATION February 6th, 2009 The time has come.  "Baby Boomers" are retiring or nearing retirement, and they are making decisions about where they want to live for their retirement years.  Florida is a popular spot, but  all those pesky hurricanes are a worry (I've p...

January 27th, 2009      Plenty!  Most people do not realize that almost all real estate agents are self-employed independent contractors.  They are affiliated with their real estate company, but are not employees and therefore are not covered by company paid health insurance.  Like every self-emp...

January 19th, 2009 The dream of home ownership is not unique to Americans, it is the dream of all people the world over.  Ones' home is the ultimate safe haven, and that makes the home foreclosures in America even more tragic.  Millions of Americans have lost or are facing the loss of their home...

December 31st, 2008 I, for one, am eagerly looking forward to 2009 and a better, brighter future for us all.  We will have a new President of the United States of America-an intelligent man who is already demonstrating wisdom and common sense by the calibre of the people he will be bringing with ...

December 16th, 2008 The holiday season brings an overwhelming barrage of emotions . . . happiness, stress, loneliness, reflection, enthusiasm, depression . . . just everything one can imagine.  What should be a purely happy time can be a difficult time instead, and this year it seems like the bad...

November 15th, 2008 If you need a reason to visit Door County, come to the annual show benefiting the Door County YMCA in Sturgeon Bay.  You will find truly wonderful items hand crafted in wood, pottery, glass, fiber, metals and just about every other medium you can think of!  It is on November 2...

November 15th, 2008 Whether you actually celebrate holidays in November and December or simply try to get through the time unscathed, certainly everyone has memories of past holiday seasons.  Who among us would not have done something differently in those past seasons had we fully realized at the...

October 24th, 2008 This may be the best news you hear today.  Sellers of real estate in northern Door County-the areas from Sevastopol, Egg Harbor all the way north to the top of the peninsula-have received an average of 93% of their asking prices for the properties sold since June 1st.  That is ...

October 4th, 2008 The saying is that every cloud has a silver lining, and in the midst of the wall street and banking meltdown, the mortgage debacle, a tanked housing market, a contentious election, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan-I'll stop there-it's hard to imagine a silver lining.   Well, I'm her...