The Value of Referrals
90% of consumers worldwide said they are most likely
to trust the recommendations of the people they know,
a figure that was well above any other form of
advertising, according to recent market research
conducted by the Nielson Company.

Oh, by the way... Im never too busy for your referrals

Thank  You!  Thank  You! 

Thanks to YOU the word is spreading.  Thanks to all my clients and friends who graciously referred me to your friends and neighbors last month!  I build my business based on the positive comments and referrals from people just like you.  I couldnt do it without you! 

    Thank you Janet Palmer from Prudential Relocation for referring James Scantlin and Beth McAnally the marathon runners (26.2 miles in 6;22:00) from Arkansas moving to our area in the near future. 

    Thank you Ellen Shackelford and Ken Austin for giving me a call    considering a move close by and over that away.   

    And thank you Hess family patriarchs Grayce and Sid Hess for giving me a call just to see what is going on in the Delaware County PA market and the crystal ball prognosis for 2013. Thank you all for giving me a chance to earn your business. 

MLWAs Garden Comment    

PHEW! New Castle County DE and nearby Chester and Delaware County PA dodged the proverbial bullet when hurricane Sandy plundered the coast lines of nearby New Jersey and New York our thoughts and prayers go out to our friends in the those nearby areas still recovering from the effects of the storm. Hurricane Sandy and follow-up noreaster Athena did litter the yards with the first wave of falling leaves and plenty of broken branches remind the SO to dust off the rakes and make sure the leaf blowers and leaf vacuums are in working order!

It is time to clean and stack the tomato cages and clean up all the frosted plant  debris in the flower and rock gardens and toss it all into the burn or compost pile! Gather up the lawn ornaments the cement ducks and the Mexican tera-cotta figurines you picked up on one of the summer trips south and dont forget to take the whirly-gig-thing-a-ma-bob SO likes to watch   spinning in the breeze out of the tree where it landed after Sandy and put it all in the shed for next year.

    If you have been putting it off you need to get the bulbs: crocus, daffodil, tulips, hyacinths, anemones and the min-y-art-a you bought from Bulb-A-Land a few weeks ago and are still sitting in the delivery box in the laundry room into the ground now before the ground turns to cement and you need a jack hammer and blasting caps to break the earth open.

   Hold your horses and leave the clippers in the wagon. Please do not start whaling away on the butterfly bushes and the flopping over grasses still bending in the wind sure they look a bit ungainly, but they are great places for the birds to hide during the day and night from the    marauding red fox and the neighborhood bad cats.

  It is a good idea is to have a local chimney sweep check the integrity of your chimneys and if they need cleaning get them sweptcreosote build up can cause unwanted chimney fires. And remind the Significant Other to clean the gutters one more time and to be careful on the ladder!  We are all looking forward to another mild winter though we havent checked Uncle Ben Franklins Almanac nor seen an overly skinny wooly caterpillar to verify that crystal ball prediction. Happy gardening!

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   The Yorklyn Yoggers attended the annual Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk Buddy Walk in Rehoboth Beach Delaware in October and the little king had a great timeyeshe had Thrashers French Fries within 3 minutes of the store fronts opening bell and when done said: Lets go home! We stayed for the remainder of the walk festivities - had lunch and then made a bee line home to be on time for soccer    practice.

  The  Para Transit bus situation is for the most part resolvedthough with a  different driver every day driving right by our house or following the GPS   directions and stopping at neighbor Mr. Caziers house every other morning the 45 minute window of opportunity is a real challenge as Ryan and MLWA wait in the garage singing and dancing to cell phone music and videos. Oh yes we miss the days when Miss Stacies yellow Red Clay Consolidated school bus number 111 arrived every single day right on the dot between 6:33 and 6:38 am.

  The Newark Lightning Special Olympics Delaware bowling team is practicing every Sunday afternoon at the Blue Hen lanes in Newark in preparation for the Winter Bowling Festival to be held in New Castle DE at the BowleramaSaturday December 5, 2012 from noon to 3:00 pmCome on out and cheer on the athletes and their unified partners! SO is the little kings unified partner.

  The Newark Lightning team concluded the soccer tournament at the end of   October. Ryans team brought home the silver medal and had a wonderful sunny day of competitionhurrahno rain and no cold snow!  All team members and parents are looking    forward to learning the new name of the team under the revamped state wide Special Olympics Delaware plan to realign into regional community based teams. The athletes arent phased at all by the changes, but the   parents are still worried! Special Olympics Delaware is  looking for volunteer coaches in may different sportsif you would like to volunteer or know someone who might want to participate in an inspirational and   positively rewarding volunteer experience visit www.sode.org to get more information.

  Ryan is looking forward to the holidays and visiting with family from everywhere:on the east coast and midway across the country:  PA, IA, MA, NY, NJ, DE&possibly Alaska toothough Alaska may only be a rumor.

MLWAs Garden Comment

   Here comes the Fall lets get a head start on cleaning and repairing our bird feeders especially the ones that were attacked by the Pileated Woodpecker who was in the neighborhood looking for bugs and pecking new windows, doors and skylights into wooden boxes. And for the  winter birds who will be returning this year be sure to stock up on some large bags of black oil seed and a bag of corn for the squirrels. And speaking of seed and corn storage be sure to use a good sturdy metal container the plastic containers invite the mice to chew through the walls and perish in the seed when they cannot find their way back out.

     It is the perfect time to plant the Spring bulbs like: daffodil, tulip, narcissus, crocus and snow drops. If you have a large area you want to bulb-up for Spring 2013 there are some really good deals in the bulb catalogs this year so be sure to peruse the bulk color mixes for the real cost savings. 

     And be sure to write a note to remind your SO to erect an 8 foot fence with razor wire around the bird feeder, suet feeder and squirrel corn table stations. The dear deer and old fat jazzy raccoon are on their own this winter. And as a post script remind the SO to be thinking of a good solution to keep also very rotund mister ground hog who devastated the pumpkins, gourds and beans while we were at the NDSC Convention in Washington DC in July out of the pumpkin patch next summer.

    Clean up the desiccated fruit that even the dear deer turned their noses up at and are laying on the ground beneath the apple, pear and peach trees leaving it invites the bad bugs so get it out of there. And be sure to pile the garden debris on the future  Boxing Day burn pile to start the rites of spring 2013.  Be sure to call master gardener Ed and reserve a time to use the leaf vacuum blower and make sure the rakes are still handy in the shed and not leaning against a tree out by Ms. Sandys.

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Article 12

Realtors^® shall be honest and truthful in their real estate    communications and shall present a true picture in their advertising, marketing, and other representations. Realtors^® shall ensure that their status as real estate professionals is readily apparent in their advertising, marketing, and other representations, and that the recipients of all real estate communications are, or have been, notified that those communications are from a real estate professional. (Amended 1/08)

CORE BELIEFS

I'm here to make a difference by learning, growing and passionately sharing; Life is a gift; People are one of God's greatest gifts; The deeper my  relationships, the more joy and success I experience. If I meet people's true needs with total sincerity and commitment to serve, they will consistently do business with me;  My work is a privilege and a gift; The secret to living is giving; I'm guided; Everything that happens serves me." 

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Thanks to YOU the word is spreading.  Thanks to all my clients and friends who graciously referred me to your friends and neighbors last month!  I build my business based on the positive comments and referrals from people just like you.  I couldnt do it without you!

   Thank you  Janet Campbell for calling me about putting your house on the market in the near future. And thank you for referring me to you mother and father Ralph and Dorothy Smith.   

  And thank you Marineka  Bowman for referring your friend Martin Emory to mewhen he is ready to make the move I will be ready too.

  Thank you Kathy Gao for giving me a call searching for an investment property in the HockessinWilmington area.

  Thank you all for giving me a chance to earn your business.

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The Yorklyn Yoggers thank all their well wishers and contributors to the  Down Syndrome Association of Delawares Annual Buddy Walk on Sunday May 20, 2012. We walked and it was a beautiful sunny day Thank you friends and family for helping us meet and exceed our goals for the walk:  Elaine and John Woerner. Marlane Baird, Ruth Clancy, Allan Cleary and Sandra Home, Gail Renulfi, Guido and Catherine Garosi, Pam Rybinski, Jane Goldman and UBS (Gregg Goldman), Pat Pugh, Angela, Whit, Savannah and Mike Daly, Grayce and Sid Hess, Phil Gamgort, John Howker and Barbara Schaeffer, Jennifer Idell, Anna Jennings, Joanne and Bill Nimmo. 

   It was a busy June and will be a busy July too!  Ryan attended the Senior Prom and rode in a limo with 7 beautiful ladies and then gradated with his 2012 class a from John Dickenson high School at the University of Delaware Carpenter Center  - Ryan joined with  other self advocates and concerned parents who met with Senator Tom Carper and talked to him about the importance of passing the ABLE Act and then it was off to Camp PALS at Cabrini College in King of Prussia PA for a whole week.  Camp PALS is a camp for 18 to 25 year old young adults with Down syndrome who are paired one-to-one with a volunteer counselor. Ryan spent a glorious week away from his parents making new friends and learning a lot about independence. His mother and father barely survived the experience too.

    Next up will be a three day camp at Camp Barnes near Bethany Beach with his friends from Special Olympics Delaware and then it will be on to Washington DC to attend the National Down Syndrome Congresss annual meetings where Ryan will participate in the Young Adults Self Advocate conference while his mother and father are attending classes and seminars.  Have a Tremendous remainder of summer 2012