Where has the winter gone???

At last a break in the bad weather. The bikes are out, and Kel & I are trying to find time to ride. Softball is well under way, Dave & I found a team to play together on. My goal in life was to keep playing long enough to be able to be on a team together. With the goal met, lets hope I still have a couple good years left.

Golf league just began this week, I apologize in advance if you go to voice mail after 4:00 on Tuesdays. I promise to make it up to you on the weekends.

April was full of Henderson news. Jessy graduated from Western with her masters in Speech Pathology. She found work in Chicago, and plans to move there when her graduation trip to Disney is over. Her & Anthony decided against Mexico due to the risk of swine flu recently. I told her I was sure it was just montezumas revenge, they just now have a name for it.

Anthony, Dave & I hit the links last week for a quick round of golf. I was heading toward a respectable 40 something when Anthony decided that he needed to ask if he could marry Jessy. I told him it would be o.k., but then I hit an 8 on the last hole plunging me into the 50 somethings... He did say he hesitated to ask for fear of wrecking the round, but do you think that stopped him??? He proposed and Jessy accepted the other night (hence the delay in getting the blog out, I told him I would wait so he could make this months edition).

Kelly & I are both very excited to welcome Anthony into Club Hendo... We are now confident that both kids have chosen a path of longevity in marriage through fine spouse selection... just like Kelly did :0)

Speaking of that... Kel & I celebrate 27 great years of marriage May 8. It has been a great 27 years with a prefect soul mate. Full of surprises and twists, but great none the less. May is turning into one of those months that requires weekly parties. Anthony, Bella, David & Jessy all with birthdays, our anniversary, mothers day and of course Cinco De Mayo.

Kelly continues the career search... she has had many interviews with 3 very good possibilities on the horizon. We're confident that she'll land a job soon, and this will be just another blip on the radar of life.

Enough of that... Real estate is cranking up. This is the busiest spring I've enjoyed in the last three years. I am hopeful that the activity reflects an improvement in our economy, and an end to the market slide we've been in for the past five years. We're not seeing increases in prices yet, but if we continue to sell the inventory out there, pricing will have to follow.

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Thanks, and see you in June...