How I bought a house without a penny out of my own pocket

November 22, 2018

There are a lot of so-called “real estate gurus” out there that promote buying a house without using any of your own money, regardless of your credit. Is it a scam? A quick search of the internet will have you thinking it is, quite frankly though, those naysayers have no idea what they are talking

Refinishing the floors

November 21, 2018

I have been busy with the latest project at the Burien House. The project this time was refinishing the hardwood floors. The house, built in the 1950s, has hardwood floors throughout. Floors that have been neglected during its 60 years of existence. It was in desperate need of refinishing. I refinished the floors myself. Here

Late Minto Sailing

October 18, 2018

Hard to believe it is October already! What a year it has been. I thought I had the Minto, Martha, tucked away for the winter, but we had 10 days of great weather. I could not resist getting her out again. At a time when it is common for dreary grey skies and poor weather,

How to be grateful where you are

September 28, 2018

Joe, one of my mentors, shared a deep insight tonight. As he lay in his hospital bed he taught me how to be grateful where you are. All his life Joe has been an active person. He has traveled the world over, hiked amazing places, competed in many sports, and engaged in activities that kept

Canonical URL plugin for WordPress released!

August 31, 2018

Have you run into this scenario? You have content that needs to live on multiple sites but you are concerned about SEO issues duplicating said content? As search engines crawl the web looking for pages to include in their search indexes they may run across content duplicated from another site. When that happens the search