Hopefully, you won’t find yourself heading to the Hendricks County Courthouse in Danville any time soon, other than to enjoy the architecture and the city square.
Just be sure you know where the small cities start and keep your speed down when going through town.
Real Estate Statistics Hendricks County- November 2007
The differences beween 2006 and 2007 numbers speak for themselves, The one offsetting value is the 1 property sold in 2007 with 453 days on market. A number that big and so far off of the normals will distort the true average of Days On Market. If we take that one number and add it’s value to the year 2006, it changes the average days on market for 2006 to 93.9.
This time of year, in shopping centers all around the city, I see people struggling to get their shopping done within the time frame of the attention span of their children. Not an easy task. Children don’t like shopping, unless you are spending your time in the toy aisle buying them everything they want. The problem is, they want everything. And don’t try to take them to a store with tiny aisles and no carts, or a store with the perfect collectable for Aunt Mildred. You may end up buying more collectibles than you bargained for.
Don’t get me wrong – I love children. I just remember well the trials of any shopping event with four children, all vying for their favorite toy, cereal, candy, snack. You name it, they wanted it, and they couldn’t all have the same favorite.
Now, you can shop without the children and get in a little parent time.
HIP Studios offers a Parents Night Out program for your little ones. They can play, watch a movie, do crafts and have a snack, while you get your shopping done. During the month of December they are offering the program every Saturday until Christmas, from 5:30 til 12:00 midnight. Their regular Parents Night is the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month.
HIP Studios is located at:
1122 N SR 267
Avon, IN, 46123
You can reach them by phone at 317–946–4357
After the sun melts the snow and the temperature drops. ICE!
The horses don’t mind though.
The first snow is always the prettiest. After that, not so much. Unless, of course the first snow is before Christmas, then snow is beautiful on Christmas Day. Hopefully, this year will bring a white Christmas to Indianapolis.
I actually didn’t have to change the picture to black and white. The sky was grey, the tree branches black and the snow, a beautiful layer of white.
Since I could relate to this letter in so many ways and my instructions were to send it to as many Mom’s as I could, I decided to post it here. Although mine are grown, I do remember……………
Dear Santa,
I’ve been a good mom all year. I’ve fed, cleaned and cuddled my children on demand, visited the doctor’s office more than my doctor and sold sixty-two cases of candy bars to raise money to plant a shade tree on the school playground. I was hoping you could spread my list out over several Christmases, since I had to write this letter with my son’s red crayon, on the back of a receipt in the laundry room between cycles, and who knows when I’ll find anymore free time in the next 18 years.
Here are my Christmas wishes:
I’d like a pair of legs that don’t ache (in any color, except purple, which I already have) and arms that don’t hurt or flap in the breeze, but are strong enough to pull my screaming child out of the candy aisle in the grocery store.
I’d also like a waist, since I lost mine somewhere in the seventh month of my last pregnancy.
If you’re hauling big ticket items this year I’d like fingerprint resistant windows and a radio that only plays adult music, a television that doesn’t broadcast any programs containing talking animals, and a refrigerator with a secret compartment behind the crisper where I can hide to talk on the phone.
On the practical side, I could use a talking doll that says, “Yes, Mommy” to boost my parental confidence, along with two kids who don’t fight and three pairs of jeans that will zip all the way up without the use of power tools.
I could also use a recording of Tibetan monks chanting “Don’t eat in the living room” and “Take your hands off your brother,” because my voice seems to be just out of my children’s hearing range and can only be heard by the dog.
If it’s too late to find any of these products, I’d settle for enough time to brush my teeth and comb my hair in the same morning, or the luxury of eating food warmer than room temperature without it being served in a Styrofoam container.
If you don’ t mind, I could also use a few Christmas miracles to brighten the holiday season. Would it be too much trouble to declare ketchup a vegetable? It will clear my conscience immensely. It would be helpful if you could coerce my children to help around the house without demanding payment as if they were the bosses of an organized crime family.
Well, Santa, the buzzer on the dryer is calling and my son saw my feet under the laundry room door. I think he wants his crayon back. Have a safe trip and remember to leave your wet boots by the door and come in and dry off so you don’t catch cold.
Help yourself to cookies on the table but don’t eat too many or leave crumbs on the carpet.
Yours Always,
MOM…
P.S. One more thing…you can cancel all my requests if you can keep my children young enough to believe in Santa.
Merry Christmas to all Mom’s everywhere………and Dad’s too.
It’s that time of year again!!
Did you look up in the sky and see them?
Did you hear their noise?
Did you see the little red caps?
Boy, you have to look really high in the sky as they fly past!
Noooo. It wasn’t Santa and his reindeer; it was the annual Sandhill Crane migration!
Each fall, the sandhill cranes leave their breeding grounds in Alaska or Northern Canada and head south to southern United States or Mexico. Tens of Thousands Sandhill Cranes make this migration. Hendricks County is fortunate to be just 2 hours south of the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area. This wildlife preserve is over 8,000 acres of marshes and wetlands. Each year, the Sandhill Cranes start their migration from Mid September through December and peak around mid November. They stop along the way at harvested fields, wetlands, and marshes.
The Sandhill Cranes are the largest type of cranes in the United States. Although there are 15 different species of crane around the world, only two are native in North America – the Sandhill Crane, and the whooping crane. Standing three to four feet high they have a wing span of six feet. The Sandhill Cranes mate for life, with the pair and their off spring migrating south together. The young cranes grow an inch a day and reach full size in only nine weeks. Cranes are considered the most accomplished dancers in the animal kingdom (the long legs probably help).
According to the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area, the migration count for the morning of 11/27/07 was 18,050 sandhills and 2 whooping crane! Generally early morning is the best time to spot them. This morning I heard the racket first. It sounded like the roar at a football game! It took awhile for them to come into sight, but there they were – high in the sky flying in a V formation. They tend to fly in circles letting the drifters catch up. Great masses of birds so high I was afraid they would tangle with the airplane traffic!
It is good to know that Hendricks County air space is used for more than the just the Indianapolis Airport. So next time you hear an unfamiliar racket high in the sky, look up!
Next time, it may even be reindeer!
Written by Linda Sandlin
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Located next door to Saddle Up Riding Stables in Danville.
Bragg’s Saddle Feed & Tack Shop
(317) 745-9159
783 N County Road 200 E,
Danville, IN
