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The Windy City Has Nothing On Indiana!
Posted by: | CommentsChicago may be the Windy City, but Indiana has something the big city doesn’t have! We have “Wind Farms”! And North Central Indiana is home to the first wind farm in Indiana. In fact, Benton County boasts not one, but two wind farms.
You may have seen the windmills along US 31 south of Kokomo, but you haven’t seen anything until you see a “real” wind farm. Take a look…
Awesome!
I will never forget the first time I saw a wind farm… We had just moved to San Diego and were headed north on I-15. All of a sudden we saw these “things” that seemed to be sprouting out of the rolling hills. We had no idea they were, but the beauty and the serenity of miles and miles of these giant “things” stick out of the ground, out in the middle of nowhere was awe-inspiring. Of course, we soon found out they were wind turbines – modern versions of the old-fashioned windmills we had seen as children.
Check out this short video with a close up of a wind turbine in Benton County at Fowler Ridge.
In the not too distant future, I am sure we will have a wind farm in eastern Howard County. There are also plans in the works for a wind farm near the Tipton-Clinton County line. Keep your eyes open for these magnificent windmills!
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Two Kokomo Homes for the Price of One?
Posted by: | CommentsThis could be a real deal – if it were true! But alas, these two homes in the Kokomo area are not for sale as a package deal. And the car isn’t included in the sale either.
The listing agent just got a little careless when taking this picture. Sometimes it’s difficult to avoid cars in photos. And sometimes, if a house is on a narrow lot, it’s difficult to avoid getting part of the neighboring houses in photos.
But with this house, it appears there isn’t a close neighbor to the right. A better picture might have been from the left of the house – about where the front of that parked car is. If that didn’t work, the agent could have “cropped” the picture before uploading it to the MLS. By cropping the picture, most of the neighbor’s house and all of the street and car could have been eliminated.
Here’s an example of the same picture cropped. (Cropping should be done on the original, not on the one above that was resized for MLS.)
Now it’s your turn!
When you come across any “fabulous” or “not-so-fabulous” pictures in the MLS, email me the MLS number or the address of the property! It doesn’t matter if the house is in Kokomo or the surrounding areas, as long as it is in the Central Indiana MLS (CIRMLS) I can find it. Who knows, I may feature your suggestion in Photo Friday !
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The True Cost of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”
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For all you romantics out there, a gift a day for “The Twelve Days of Christmas” will cost you $21,466 this year – up less than $400 from 2008. Of course if you are a “true” romantic and repeat the gifts for all the verses, that would be 364 gifts for a whopping $87,403!
The cost of the ”gift of the day” each of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” is:
- A Partridge in a Pear Tree: Bird: $10 and Pear tree: $149.99 – down 27.3%
- Two Turtledoves: $55.98 – up 1.8%
- Three French Hens: $45 – up 50%
- Four Calling Birds: $600 – unchanged
- Five Gold Rings: $499.95 – up 42.9%
- Six Geese a-Laying: $150 – down 37%
- Seven Swans A-Swimming: $5,200 – down 6.3%
- Eight Maids a-Milking: $58 – up 33%
- Nine Ladies Dancing: $5,473 – up 15%
- Ten Lords a-Leaping: $4,413 – unchanged
- Eleven Pipers Piping $2,285 – unchanged
- Twelve Drummers Drumming: $2,475 – unchanged
Note to online shoppers: Ordering all these items online is no bargain! They will cost you $31,435 – $10,000 more than shopping locally.
Adapted from an email from Patty Street of National City Bank. National City is part of the PNC Bank family. See Christmas Price Index – PNC for more details about “The Twelve Days of Christmas”.
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Kokomo Christmas Lights
Posted by: | CommentsIt seems a lot of people don’t like the Christmas light display around the court house in downtown Kokomo. In fact several people have written to the Kokomo Tribune with their gripes about the display being too secular.
Well, Kokomo resident Duncan McRae-Spencer puts it all in perspective in this informative video. He explains how some of the “non-traditional” displays actually are of a biblical nature. Take a look:
Now, do you view our Kokomo Christmas lights in a whole new way? Please let us know in the comment section!
What Does the Future Hold for Kokomo?
Posted by: | CommentsI don’t have a crystal ball, so I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow, let alone a decade from now in Kokomo or anywhere else in the world. But it seems that back in 1993 AT&T had a crystal ball.
AT&T created a series of “Have you… You will…” ads for TV. I say they must have had a crystal ball, because most of their prediction are right on! Take a look…
In case you are wondering whose voice that is, it’s Tom Selleck. (If you don’t know who that is, ask your mom or dad. Mom’s loved him, dad’s hated him!)
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