It is Friday and Fridays are for fun.  This week I spent some quality time working my own piece of real estate.  I dug, raked and planted and as always there is plenty more to do.  Gardening isn't for wimps. 

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun.  Last weekend we had a full moon.  They call it a super moon because it is closer to the earth than the moon usually is and so it is big.  Photographing it is a big deal.  Since it rained all weekend I had to photograph it from inside so that I could keep my camera from getting wet.  I chose an artists loft in Lowertown. 

Loft

 It is Friday and Fridays are for fun.  Tomorrow May 5, 2012 is not only cinco de mayo but we will have the biggest full moon of the year, a super moon which reminds me of last years super moon on March 16th.  Photographers all over the planet were out photographing the largest moon ever.  It was cloudy here that day but I managed to get some great shots of my own anyway: 

Super Moon

As I recall I was taking photographs of the LRT construction and the moon kind of got in the way. 

Super Moon over the river

The super moon looked just huge over the Mississippi river as I stood on Raspberry island and took this photograph.

Come rain or shine I will be out tomorrow night taking pictures of the moon. 

Moon over chestnut plaza park

 It is Friday and Fridays are for fun and I should not have the word "working" in the title of anything I write on Friday.  For me Friday means that there is only one more work day left until the new work week starts.  

Monday I worked at CoCo the collaborative.  I like working there it is a great way to start the week and kind of like camping and the other campers are fun to hang out with. 

Camping at CoCo

I started the year out by writing about getting rid of stuff and junk and stuff.  I have not written about it in a while and am getting ready to make another trip to the thrift store to drop off some more stuff to take for recycling.   I have not given up and am still on a mission.  

The basement is starting to look like a mess which is a vast improvement over how it looked a couple of months ago.  The cat seems happier now that she doesn't have to walk around so much stuff to get to her box.   I keep reminding myself that it took a long time to accumulate so much stuff and that I had a lot of help along the way and that it may take several more months before my work is done and I can work on something else. 

Have a great weekend.  Try not to spend it cleaning your basement or bugging me unless you want to buy one of my listings in that case bug away.  

 It is Friday and Fridays are for fun and what could be more fun than a photo app for your phone?   There is a photography app for the iPhone that has been around awhile called Instagram.  I have been using it for a year or so but on an iPad because I don't have an iPhone.  

Instagram threatened to build an app for the Android for at least a year and the folks with iPhones got kind of obnoxious about it as they often do.  Finally the Android app was rolled out about two weeks ago. Some iPhone users did not like the idea.  . . Intagram was like this exclusive gated community and now they let just about anyone in. . .well they probably won't ever let blackberry users in.

I have read that the Insagram app for the Android has already been downloaded five million times and of course Facebook just bought Instagram.  I like Instagram but it doesn't seem all that special.  There are any number of ways I can use filters to make photos I took with my phone look interesting or even unidentifiable. 

There are far easier ways to share photographs in fact instagram is pretty limited and was even more limited before they started offering an Android app and Facebook integration.   Don't go looking for the instagram photo sharing site on the internet because you won't find it, but they do have a decent blog with some wonderful photographs on it. 

Here is a photo I took with the Instagram app.  Can you tell if I used an Android or an iPhone?

Taken in lowertown on 5th in S. Paul, MN 

I have used the filters a few times with food.  I can take something really tasty and make it look inedible just by applying the right filter. 

 It is Friday and Fridays are for fun.  Today is good Friday.  I'll be back to write my post when it is bad Friday.

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun.  It is spring and I am too busy to have fun but I can still think about it.  I will work many 16 hour days. This weekend will have it's share of real estate emergencies.  Did you know that people have real estate emergencies?  They suddenly and unexpectedly find themselves in town and they have to see a home but they only have exactly one hour to do so and that hour is during one of my other appointments when I am supposed to be having dinner with my family.     

These people never know ahead of time that they will be in town or that they will want to see a house.  Some will tell me what my job is. Part of it is apparently being on call 24 X 7. 

I should be more compassionate.  I can not imagine what it would feel like to suddenly and unexpectedly end up in St. Paul and needing to see a house. 

I used to tell my own clients that there is no such thing as a real estate emergency.  I was wrong and I know that now but I continue to say it anyway in the hope that the idea will catch on.