http://athome.allentate.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:54:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } We’ve sat through the Golden Globe’s and the Screen Actor’s Guild Award shows. This weekend we are gearing up for the Grammy’s. These are well-known award shows that are eagerly anticipated by many. Every year in January and February, we at the Allen Tate Company, look forward to our own awards. Each year during this time, [...]]]> http://athome.allentate.com/2012/02/award-season-is-upon-us/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } With temperatures nearing 70 degrees these past few days, it is hard to remember that we have just started the month of February. I remember my first February in the Carolinas – and thinking that it was so bitterly cold and dreary. But I really didn’t mind, since I was just so happy to be [...]]]> http://athome.allentate.com/2012/02/winterize-your-home-prevent-losses/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } I enjoy working out on the elliptical machine at the gym every day. When I feel good, I try to go at a seven-minute mile pace for 40 minutes.  A few months ago, I started having leg problems.  Although I kept working out, I slowed my pace to an eight-minute mile.  Now that I’m feeling better, [...]]]> http://athome.allentate.com/2012/02/mindset-and-effort-and-focus/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } I hail from Buffalo, N.Y. It’s famous for many things including the home of two U.S. Presidents, the inauguration of another and the host of a Pan Am Expo. However, if you poll the average person and ask them “What is Buffalo famous for,” you will likely hear one of the following: snow, the [...]]]> http://athome.allentate.com/2012/02/buffalo-wings-super-bowl/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } This year 2012 is a Leap Year and we have one extra day this month to do something. Since doing something is the whole point of these monthly blog posts, we’ll take advantage of the extra day by adding an extra thing to do. It may be the shortest month, but it’s chock-full of activities [...]]]> http://athome.allentate.com/2012/02/5-no-6-things-every-north-carolinian-should-do-in-february/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } Sunday morning after church, my husband and I were completing a few errands on our way home. We stopped by Lowe’s Home Improvement to get some under-the-counter lights for my new kitchen (see blog on Sept. 1 with a photo of my new kitchen!).  We were standing in the light aisle and my husband heard [...]]]> http://athome.allentate.com/2012/02/nascar-moorseville-north-carolina/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } I’ve mentioned in several blog posts that I’m quite the explorer. Not the type of explorer who traverses the world (although I’d like to do more of that) mind you, but more of the explorer who looks for different things to do in his own backyard. Take Randolph County for example. Formed in 1779 from Guilford [...]]]> http://athome.allentate.com/2012/01/randolph-county-north-carolina/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } Last year, I was asked to chair the 2012 Cultural Vision Plan Process, the fourth such event of its kind. Every eight to ten years, the challenge is to assess the greater community agenda (themes, ideas, and issues) and determine how the cultural community at-large can facilitate movement and advancement of those community-wide opportunities. In previous [...]]]> http://athome.allentate.com/2012/01/the-2012-charlotte-mecklenburg-cultural-vision-plan/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } Have you heard about Charlotte’s butterfly park? No? Well, it is kind of a secret park in Charlotte’s Sedgefield neighborhood located just a few minutes from downtown Charlotte. If you ask people who live in the Sedgefield, Myers Park or Dilworth neighborhoods about parks and which they would recommend, most will mention Freedom or Latta Park. [...]]]> http://athome.allentate.com/2012/01/the-butterfly-effect/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } Not too long ago, two of our outstanding leaders, were each recognized for their tremendous accomplishments. On December 9, Allen Tate President/COO Pat Riley was named Realtor of the Year by the Charlotte Regional Realtor Association. Can you believe that this is the third time in his career that he has received this honor? Pat is [...]]]> http://athome.allentate.com/2012/01/have-you-heard-the-news/