Looking for weekend yard sales near you? Here is a tool that can help you plan for such trips without wasting time and gas roaming the streets for signs.
You enter your:
starting address
maximum number of miles you are willing to drive
day of your trip (Thursday through Sunday)
Click on "Search"
Results, you get a Google map of area yard sales posted on Craigslist, recommended driving route for FREE!. Click on red ballon for each listing and you'll find time, address and details of what's for sale.
According to trulia.com it would appear that the housing market in Katonah is in intensive care.
"The median sales price for homes in Katonah NY for Jun 09 to Aug 09 was $666,700 based on 2 home sales. Compared to the same period one year ago, the median home sales price decreased 16.4%, or $131,048, and the number of home sales decreased 89.5%. There are currently 131 resale and new homes in Katonah on Trulia, including 3 homes in the pre-foreclosure, auction, or bank-owned stages of the foreclosure process.
The average listing price for homes for sale in Katonah NY was $1,300,606 for the week ending Sep 16, which represents a decrease of 0.4%, or $5,614, compared to the prior week."
Here is a neat idea. In a matter of minutes - The ability to print out any public domain book on the google data base anywhere the Espresso Book machine (ATM for Books) is located. Cost $100,000 (not yet available through out the US).
Local libraries and bookstores come to mind as an added service they could offer their patrons. Also, local schools/colleges could benefit from adding this machine to their bookstore.
Slow Food Westchester and Katonah Green are coordinating a publicly staged potluck on the lawn of the First Presbyterian Church to gather support for improved school lunches nationwide on Labor Day from 2 to 4.
Art Day will be held on September 12, from 1-4 at the Katonah Art Center, Participants can draw, paint, do pottery, sculpture, animation, cartooning, crafts, music...all for FREE!
On July 30th, a rain out John Scofield Shade of Jazz event at the Katonah Museum of Art was held in the basement of the Katonah Library. 200 folks were there and it was special.
John Scofield will be appearing on August 12th at the last Summer 09 Shades of Jazz event at the Katonah Museum of Art with pianist Dena DeRose’s trio.
In this down economy, we need all the help we can get. Here is a a great resource for ideas on yard sales that may give you some ideas to generate extra money.
The number of people visiting and using Twitter has grown rapidly in the last few months. As more people sign up for Twitter it becomes more useful.
Twitter is enabling everything from better customer service to easier job searches, and is being employed for some extraordinary home uses.
Here is a cool Tweet tool that enable you to connect with people in Katonah.
Twello.com is a local directory of Twitter users. Using this service, I found 23 local twitter user. Update: Now 50 Local twitter users August 20, 2009 Update: Now 40 Local twitter users July 20. 2009 Update: Now 25 Local twitter Users June 15, 2009
The second most followed local twitter after Martha Stewart (she has 763,902 followers) is W.R. Tish (1,567 followers) a recovering wine critic.
Twitter is great for networking, but also for getting relevant, real-time, local information about things like jobs, news, politics, weather, food, and more.
The 24th annual Lasdon Memorial Day Antiques Fair at Lasdon Park, Arboretum and Veterans Memorial Katonah, NY on May 25th, MONDAY, (Memorial Day), between the hours of 10 AM and 5 PM link
The Katonah Chamber of Commerce is celebrating Spring by hosting its first ever Spring Fling — a day of family fun, live entertainment, crafts, rides, great shopping, demonstrations, discounts, and more — on Saturday, May 16, from 10 to 2 (a rain date is planned for Sunday, May 17).
Are you thinking DIY green living? Here is a great resource for everything green on a local level. Also, Katonah Green has initiated meetups where you join up and meet with others interested in DIY natural health, organic lifestyle, and sustainable living.
April 27 Monday NO DONATIONS ACCEPTED 8:30am - 6:00pm OUTSIDE SALE
April 28 Tuesday 8:30am - 6:00pm OUTSIDE SALE
April 29 Wednesday 8:30am - 6:00pm OUTSIDE SALE
April 30 Thursday 8:30am - 6:00pm OUTSIDE SALE 9:00am - 6:00pm INSIDE SALE AND BAKE SALE
May 1 Friday 8:30am - 6:00pm OUTSIDE SALE 9:00am - 6:00pm INSIDE SALE AND BAKE SALE
MAY 2 Saturday 9:00am - NOON OUTSIDE SALE 9:00am - NOON INSIDE SALE AND BAKE SALE
Katonah will have its SPRING CLEAN UP DAY – Saturday May 2, 2009--RAIN OR SHINE. Meet in front of the Katonah Library at 9 AM organized by the Katonah Improvement Society.
The Town’s Department of Public Works Town-Wide Clean-Up Days will be held at the Crusher Road Highway Facility off Route 22, just North of Route 172, in Bedford Village.
Here are the details as quoted from the Town of Bedford DPW's web page:
"Town residents can bring household debris and metal waste to the Crusher Road Yard during the following periods:
Friday, May 1, 2009 7:30 AM-3:00 PM Saturday, May 2, 2009 7:30 AM-4:30 PM Monday, May 4, 2009 7:30 AM-3:00 PM
Residents can also take brush and tree debris to the Beaver Dam Highway facility on Beaver Dam road off Harris Road during the same days and hours listed above.
The Highway Department will not accept any of the following items: tires, batteries, computers, refrigerators, freezers, pressure treated lumber, air conditioners, propane tanks, paint, varnish, chemicals, medical waste, or other toxic materials.
Proof of Bedford residency is required, and fees are as follows: $20 per carload $50 per pickup truck load $100 for small dump trucks (<6 yd) $200 and up for large dump trucks (>6 yd) Bedford Village Chowder & Marching Club will hold their Tag Sale on Friday May 1 st and Saturday, May 2nd at the Crusher Road Highway Facility.
In addition a Mobile Shredder will be available on Friday May 1st and Monday May 4 th at the Crusher Road Highway Yard. This free Westchester County public service is intended for residents to shred their personal documents. Papers from businesses or commercial enterprises will not be accepted. Residents may bring a maximum of two file boxes. To speed up shredding and reduce waiting time, residents must remove all metal clips, fasteners, binders, folders and hard covers and place the papers loosely in a box. Hard covers – cardboard or plastic covers on items such as ledger books, marble composition books and hard-cover books – are not acceptable. Residents may rip away pages from these hard cover books for shredding and throw the covers in their household trash."
There are numerous real estate sites and portals designed to help buyers find the perfect property. There have been few service offered with sellers in mind.
Withe the current trend in the Katonah Real Estate Market:
Today, the Real Estate Marketing Report Card (REMRC) is being launched in an effort to help sellers monitor their online reach. Rather than having to rely on an agents word that the property information has been placed on the Web, sellers can now easily check for themselves and make sure they're getting the best bang for their buck.
How it Works
Once you've entered the property details, street, city, state, zip code, and price, the REMRC searches across the Web and looks a a variety of real estate portals including Trulia, Google Base, Vast, Zillow and FrontDoor for details on where the property is listed.
The results appear as a grade; getting an A means your property has decent exposure on the Web; a D means you need to take some action. In addition to the grade, the site will provide a link to your listing on the various sites so you can see how well or how poorly your property is represented.
USA Service - This is a recently announced follow up on Obama’s promise to bring change to the neighborhood level across the nation. From the website: “It’s a tool that will allow you to organize a service event in your community and recruit others to join you. Or, if you’d prefer to join an existing event, the site will direct you to what others have organized in your neighborhood.”
Essentially, if you want to organize to help others in your community, USA Service.org will be the place to go for people interested in working on Obama’s goal of “Renewing America Together.”
As this site was just launched, there should be local service events posted soon. Share this site with others to get the word out and get involved in service to the neighborhood.
For a YouTube IMAX experience. Click on this video. This is walk through on an old (1950s) wooden suspension bridge in a remote area of Japan. - deep Southern Japanese Alps. The bridge is very narrow and is believe to be Japanese oldest remaining suspension bridge. Oh being remote means if you got stuck on the bridge you are very far from help.
You are walking on two planks and 3/4 through the walk through (around the 4:30 min mark of the video)you are walking on one plank and at times it appears to me there are no planks there. The utterance from the Japanese walker makes me think "Oh My God What Was I Thinking". Hearing the wind constantly adds to the drama.
99.99% of us would say no way no how would I ever do this. The .01% that would try this would definitely IMHO need a check up from the neck up.
P.S. You can view also this video in High Definition.
With the weather the way it is today, ice storm, with the forecast of more snow and cold weather to come -
Here is a visual respite.
Today, I came across a link to this beautiful site of Ralph Cooksey-Talbott a landscape photographer who studied under Ansel Adams in Yosemite in the 1970's. Cooksey is currently doing vertical panoramic photography. He calls them Vertoramas. They are works of beauty. Should help to brighten up your day. Here are a few of them below:
Cooksey is offering these vertoroma as free downloads at his site, which one can add to their site or social web page. He also is also offering prints of these beautiful photos for sale.
Are you sometimes in a quandary looking for local help? Or would like your neighbors to know that you can provide personal services, especially now with the economy the way it is?
Here are some sites that you might find useful. Just put in the Katonah zip code 10536 at each site and let it rip.
BabySitters.com is a place for parents to find local babysitters. Babysitters can list their services, be reviewed by the site , and then start booking jobs. Has been featured on Good Morning America and in Oprah Magazine as a good way to earn extra money. Tell your daughters, grand-daughters, nieces, etc. about this site.
Care.com does background checks and assists people with finding babysitters, nannies, elderly care givers, tutors, house sitters and more.
The site helps you sign up as a mover, cleaner, lawn & garden helper or day laborer, then lets you post your availability and get hired by people in your area.
NannyAvailable.com - Site built specifically for matching nannies, au pairs, babysitters and more with families looking for help.
According to BooRah a restaurant review site, here are the top rated restaurants in Katonah:
Blue Dolphin Restaurant - 87%
Katonah Grill - 88%
Willy Nick's Cafe - 50%
Deer Park Tavern - 33%
How does BooRah do this?
BooRah uses semantic analysis and natural language processing to aggregate reviews from food blogs. Because of this, BooRah can recognize praise and criticism in these reviews and then rates restaurants accordingly.
If you eat out at any of the eateries in Katonah you can write a review of that eatery and influnce how it compares with other eateries in the Katonah area
Northern Light Productions, a video film company from Boston, filmed a video about the life of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States, at the John Jay homestead in October. Here is a link to images of the shoot.
In the Kitchen with Heather and Karla is a new video series produced by KatonahGreen.com. The plan is to make short videos on healthy food choices, meal preparation and where one can purchase healthy foods in and around Katonah.
Dr. William H. Smith, 88, of Katonah, died on October 22, 2008. In 1950 he settled in Katonah to work as the first pediatrician at the newly formed Katonah Medical Group. An interest in scouting led to his role as Scoutmaster of Katonah Troop #1, BSA, a position he held for the past 52 years.
With the upcoming U.S. elections only 13 days away, Google has released a new web site to help simply and centralize information about voting locations and voter registration..
Just enter your home address and it will show you where to go to vote - Kind of neat,especially for new registered voters.
As John McCain/Sarah Palin have now gone into mud slinging in this campaign, I find this Youtube piece so revealing! You draw your own conclusion!
At last count 6 million plus have viewed this!
To me (the bashing by McCain/Palin Obama's character)is Joseph Raymond McCarthy revisited -"McCarthyism"
Joe McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.
The term "McCarthyism," coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist pursuits. Today the term is used more generally to describe demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents.
It would seem that this is McCain/Palin's current strategy! If you can't beat them then try "McCarthyism," them!
Talk about turning a negative into a positive, some enterprising person has taken the McCain comment about Obama in last night debate and started an online business with it the next day!!
The Sarah Palin factor is getting a lot of lampoon play lately. It is open season on Sarah Palin - many would say thanks to John McCain's pick for VP.
This site interviewpalin.com is a parody. The answers are computer generated based on probabilities calculated from Sarah Palin's actual speech. We think it is hilarious.
The Markov chain generated answers are surprisingly close to her actual answers.
According to the 2008 Coldwell Banker® Home Price Comparison Index (HPCI) released September 9, 2008, Katonah ranked as the most expensive real estate market in New York State. Here is the link.
Currently, this $8,200,000,5 br, 6 ba, 10,000 sqft, Single-Family Home tops the list of over 20 plus homes in the $1,000,000 plus price range.
Here is a link to realtor.com showing current property listing in Katonah.
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