I want to feature your horse property listing. My domain is low right now on equestrian real estate listings. What do you have? Good pictures, and a nice place for a family to keep horses? A ranch, with working hay pastures, equipment, and barns? Or a show horse palace, with corrals, turn-outs, and ideal places for the photographer to set up, and take videos?

Let's show it off to the horse world. I own one of the most highly trafficked equestrian sites on the net; http://www.awhitehorse.com, with over 3,900 links leading to the site, we have been well established since 1996. If you have attended Raincamp, you know the value of this site for marketing your listings.

Cost; free for activerain members. Caveat; your listing needs to be ready to feature; pictures, details, and short write-ups ready for me to cut and paste. I've been doing this a long time, and it still amazes me how people say, "wait, I don't have any pictures yet, can't we just run the ads, and when they come out, send pictures then?" LOL... This is instant, in the palm of your hand, right now.

Featured listings will be FRONT AND CENTER on our android cell phone app, "awhitehorse".

Now, are you ready to go? Great. Let's get started here:
http://www.awhitehorse.com/equine-properties.html

Please contact me directly via email. mayer.stacey@gmail.com

We're regular customers of 7th Avenue Produce Market, just off 7th Avenue and 112 Street Southeast, Everett, WA. We love their local, beautiful produce, fresh fragrant flowers, and we enjoy the personal customer service and attention we recieve when we visit. It's fun to support the local produce market, and great to see such an enthusiastic business thrive in our neighborhood. The facility is large, open, and modern, with whole walls of windows that lift up in the warm weather.

We became devoted shoppers because of the marvelous Christmas Trees they were selling a few years ago. Tall, fresh, and lushly formed sheared Douglas Fir for under $50. Wow; we called every friend we knew. These were premium, perfect trees, just the right size and "plumpness" native Washingtonians expect to find for our Christmas Holidays. But  then we found the barrels and baskets of fresh walnuts, hazelnuts, and chestnuts! Look at all the locally made gift items! Fresh local honey, a hundred different sorts of dried fruits, small, boutique gift baskets, home-made candles - there were many perfect holiday gifts. Wonderful Christmas holiday baking items, too. We were so pleased to find such a wide array of holiday gift ideas made by local and regional artisans.


This week, we found a great, big watermelon to enjoy in our ultra warm weather! Yes, the heat has finally arrived in the Pacific Northwest, and we're ready; with a 28.9 lb watermelon for just $11.27. It's in cooler right now, and tonight, we're going to enjoy watermelon after dinner. Compare prices; a small 4lb watermelon, on sale at Walmart, sells today for a bit over $4.00.

We also wanted to take home the fragrant hybiscus, potted, standard sized, filled with new pink or yellow blooms. The fresh flower buckets of fresias in lavendar, white, and purple, were perfectly fragrant. We grabbed nectarines, oranges, sunflower seeds, peppers, sweet onions, roma tomatoes, apples and caramel dip. I wanted to take entire buckets of fresh flowers home. He had nice lilies for sale, in bronze, reds, and lovely pastel colors. His prices and selection show personal care and concern; nothing is "just normal"; it sparkles.


Everett's 7th Avenue Produce is perfectly located to serve an appreciative south Everett to Mill Creek clientelle. Snohomish County is one of the most progressive supportors of the local produce and craft movement sweeping America, and 7th Avenue Produce is another one of the reasons it's growing. Check out 7th Avenue Produce Market, and let them know what your favorite items are; they'll love recieving your feedback.

7th Avenue Produce
11033 7th Avenue Southeast
Everett, WA 98208
(425) 212-5939‎

The sun has finally arrived in the Pacific Northwest, and families are crowding the local Washington beaches and waterways. I listen to the news of recent swimming accidents, and I remember losing my family on the water during an especially beautiful summer.

My little sister, Martha JulieRae Rank would have been 47 years old this Fourth of July, 2010. She drowned at the tender age of 10, at Ozette Lake, Clallam County on July 11, 1973, with my family; Dad, Robert Ray Rank, (44,) Mom, Joyce Merilyn (Black) Rank, (44) and brother, David Alan Rank, (8). Martha and my Dad were never found. As the 37th anniversary of their passing nears, I remember them with love and fondness, and sadness, too. I wasn't able to share their lives with my four daughters. We lost a set of grandparents, and aunt and uncle I know my daughters would have treasured.

Cold water drownings are a fact in the Pacific Northwest. The outdoor temperature may have quickly risen past 85, but the Snohomish County lakes, rivers, and streams are still quite cold. Every time I hear news of another family's possible loss, it brings my family's accident back as if it was yesterday. Hypothermia is an equal opportunity killer. Sure, sometimes the victim is brought back with fast medical intervention; but not always. I listen to the radio, and hope that at least today's news family will be able to find their lost loved one. With the lakes so cold, and the waters traveling so fast on the rivers, it's sometimes difficult to find the body. It's bad enough they are gone, but to never find your loved one, is a special kind of sadness.

When you visit one of our wonderful parks or recreation area, please take care. Read up on where you're going, scope out what others had to say about the location. Be aware the water is always colder than your body can handle, past a certain point. Hike, swim, and visit parks and wilderness areas as a group. Wear a simple whistle. Leave a note in your car, telling everyone where you're going. Keep your cell phone charged, even if it's left at the car. But more important than anything else; talk to your family before you go. Simply let your family know you love them.

Please make a will before you go on an extended vacation; just write it into your travel budget. Our family died intestate, (no will,) and with my father's body never found, adopted and step-children left behind, plus a few properties, the legal mess was *awful*. Just take an hour or two with a trusted legal advisor, and make sure you never put your family in that position. Leave them tangible proof of your enduring love and concern by creating a will. You'll sleep better, knowing this all-important detail is settled.

Enjoy our overdue summer sun, but remember; because our local cold waters are so beautiful, they can sometimes cause tragedy even when used with respect.

I'll be thinking of you out there.

We recommend the personal legal services of:
James T. Hendry
(425) 387-9719 
Attorney at Law
Everett, WA.

I'm an apprentice optician for Silver Lake Eye Care, of Everett, in the Bothell, Mill Creek area. Are you struggling with over-the-counter readers, that make your "dress for success" look, a wreck? Technology for eyes has changed so much, you may come into your Optometrist's office, and walk out with progressive contact lenses. Oh, you're never heard of those, have you? How long has it been since your last eye exam? Well, it's time.

Just as the right real estate agent is more apt to meet your needs, a good optician will fit you into exciting, effective, and "right message" eyeglasses. Any good agent may be caught in a poor light, after using a "road wreck" for glasses. "Yeah, my dog got to these a few months ago, and I still need a new eye exam." Or the ever classic, "I left them on top of my truck, and had to run back, and get them after the next off-ramp".

Perhaps you're trying to get by with, "over-the-counter glasses, and now and they're so scratched." Poor eyeglasses hide a good agent's professionalism.

Your everyday vision needs may increase after hours at the computer. Your eyes seemed fine till just recently, right? Our eyes work hard, and change over time. Thankfully, optical lens advances and contact lens choices available at Silver Lake Eye Care will give you many vision options.

We've, "I'm smart and trustworthy," frames, and, "I'm beautiful," frames. Or, "we're going rock-climbing this weekend," frames. We'll tailor your new RX to your lifestyle, daily computer use, and wallet. Dr. Lynette Sundholm's eye care offers the technology, expertise, and fashion tools to complete your personal presentation, *clearly*. 

Schedule an eye exam, and be ready to see a new world. Plus, it's the fastest, least invasive way to find out if you have one of the "silent saboteurs"; diabetes, high blood pressure, or glaucoma. A simple 30 minute annual eye check, covered by insurance, answers those questions. Optomap retinal exams are also available in our north Mill Creek, Everett area office. Now you may relax; with priceless information about the health of your eyes, and body.

When you're reading contracts with clients next week, you'll see those details effortlessly; without hiking up the eyebrows, emptying a purse, patting down jacket pockets, or running back out to your SUV. You're going to present yourself with confidence. Plus, with clear anti-reflective, your client will see your eyes, and more easily read your face's messages. Later, you'll drive home safely without blinding, oncoming headlight glare.

Trusting your eyes again; what a pleasure!

Wasn't the little bit of sun that appeared briefly spectacular the other day? I know we've missed it terribly, but there is a silver lining to all these clouds. The damp weather continues to soak Western Washington, and I've needed to rush back to my car more than a few times, to close my car's sunroof during a sudden shower.

 










As I've waited for the weather to be "beautiful" again, I've noticed an amazing amount of growth to the shrubs and flowering trees I pass on my way to work. With that in mind, I grabbed my android phone, (it's also my camera,) and went on a local expedition for good landscape photos. What a grand portfolio of colorful shots I found!

 The Snohomish County Courthouse provided great pictures, wrapped in rhodies, azaleas, green and bronze leaves. I snapped a bunch of those, just to use as custom backgrounds on my phone. s nearby schools, beaches, parks, playgrounds, and neighborhoods, will become treasures you may use again and again. As twilight touches the western horizon, the spectacular coastal Olympic Mountain range will return, appearing over the evergreens. Click that! 

















I can promise, your appreciation of the beauty of Puget Sound will grow, alongside your photographic record of the vibrant northwest gardens and blooms you saved during the wettest Washington State spring in memory. May our rain always bless our blooms, mountain glaciers, and salmon, alike!