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Lots of updates for the beautiful community: The Villas on Graustark by Drake Homes Inc!
Be sure to come out this weekend for Open House, Saturday and Sunday 12 – 6pm!
We could almost hold a dance in this room in the Stillman Single Family Home community by Drake Homes Inc!
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and spring 2013 is about over! Let’s enjoy this! 18th Street Single Family Homes!
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Back in 1951 my husband, Renato Deaca, and his family lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His father took the black and white picture, below, from across the street, looking at the house they were living in at the time. The street name then was Rua Dr Tibau and the house number was 95. The car in the garage was a 1949 Mercury for you car fans. He says there were no houses built near-by, just open land.
That was then. This is now:
You can just make out the peaked roof line and the brick work on the arch, which was added since the 1951 photo was taken. Amazing to see the security walls and gates, the crowded conditions of the neighborhood. The house still stands, but almost on a foreign landscape or a distant planet. Below is a slightly different view, further down the street, you can still see the roof peak. But look at that power pole and those lines – all above ground!
The street has a new name as well: Rua Dr Vigne and even the house number has been changed, no longer #95 it is now #362. In the above photo you can see the white gated garage door. This is where the ’49 Mercury was parked! Today over 90% of the homes in Brazil are walled and gated for security reasons.
The two color photos courtesy of Top World Images
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done with wood!
Part of the Birdsall Contrade Single Family Homes, this community is now sold out.
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Grasshoppers are arriving and in some areas of Texas are already swarming. If you need to treat your lawn and garden for grasshoppers, please consider control with less chemically toxic products. Here are two and a link to the planetnatural.com blog:
Semaspore Bait (the Nosema locustae protozoa attached to wheat bran)
EcoBran (wheat bran carrying 2% carbaryl)
Modern baits provide lasting protection from grasshoppers one which:
* Kills grasshoppers at their source — the hatching beds — where they are concentrated, before they can migrate to your crop.
* Persists throughout the hatching and growing season and at least through the following year.
* Provides quick-kill of any survivors from the hatching beds or migrants from other areas which might threaten your crop.
Why Semaspore and EcoBran
They are the cost-effective way to eliminate grasshoppers, because:
* They work: both are approved by USDA-APHIS for grasshopper control. Baits based on Nosema locustae were originally developed by the USDA. Semaspore and EcoBran have been tested extensively by US and other government agencies, and by universities in many countries.
Read the entire article here….
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Today on facebook I read a post where the company was asking how many bottles of shampoo and conditioner the reader has in their shower. I had to laugh as between the two of us we have 8 bottles.
There are two photos, both Master Baths from homes in Tuscany Woods. They will hold lots of bottles of shampoo!
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Two beautiful rooms by Drake Homes Inc. Which would you prefer: Carpet or Wood Floor?
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A closet with shelves! This closet is from one of the single family homes in our Tuscany Woods community.
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