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Yes, it's been two very busy weeks for me, so I didn't do last week's blog update.  But it's summer, the days are winding down...no, I haven't been hanging out on my paddleboard at the lake, but I have been getting a couple very sweet new listings, one of which I will add to the update. This is my new listing at 1020 Ten Mile Point, just south of Lourdes Camp.  Look at that beach!  It has 295 feet of level small rocks, two current docks, and a cottage up in the trees.  The price is $250,000 - and no, this is not a giveaway.  Contributing to the peace and quiet you see here is the limited accessibility - a good thing in this rush-around world!  No cars, no roads, no traffic.  Take a short boat ride or woodland path past other camps along the shoreline and find silence, only the lapping of the waves and the birds in the many trees.  You are truly away from it all, but only minutes to the Village. So!  There are currently 117 other active listin...

Saundra Smokes passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday in Syracuse.  She was a columnist for the Post-Standard for years, and only returned in May to write again in her hometown.  She was writing during the years before I tried to get my charter school off the ground, and she was an inspiration to me, pushing me (although she had no idea) to go out there and do things I never thought I could ever do.  But I should do them because I believed in them, no matter how hard.  Because it was the right thing to do. I never wrote to her, as I had planned to do since her return.  I wanted to say thank you. But this is a column she wrote that was hung up in my house on East Street in Skaneateles, and then made its way with me to Elbridge.  It resides on the back of the pantry door.  To remind me. Put Resolve in Your Resolutions One of my sister-friends and I were talking about the foolishness of making the same old New Year's resolutions. I am going to lose weight....

Amazing.  Just amazing - that there could be so much activity this very hot summer.  With no rational reason for this order: 1711 Borodino Bluffs - Town of Spafford - $921,500 1541 East Lake Road - Town of Spafford - $284,000 1 Elson Lane - Village of Skaneateles - $140,000 1012 Butters Farm - Town of Skaneateles - $600,000 3332 Kane Avenue - Town of Skaneateles - $217,500 1721 Lancelot Place - Town of Skaneateles - $159,000 8 Goodspeed Place - Village of Skaneateles - $300,000 205 Hemlock Hollow - Town of Niles - $458,000 887 West Elizabeth Street - Town of Skaneateles - $245,000 82 State Street - Village of Skaneateles - $300,000 10 Fuller Street - Village of Skaneateles - $263,000 2155 Singing Woods - Town of Spafford - $544,000 6787 Glen Haven Road - Town of Sempronius - $110,000 1760 Tamarack Trail - Town of Skaneateles - $1,225,000 3130 East Lake Road - Town of Skaneateles - $234,000 160 East Genesee Street - Village of Skaneateles - $210,000 5 Ramble Wood Drive - Villag...

The moon rose last night over the lake.  It's a blue moon - or rather, the first full moon in the month of August and there will be another at the end, I guess making that the actual blue moon.  I learned that the cycle between full moons is 29.5 days, which explains why it isn't the same day every year, every month.  The moon slipped in and out of the pink clouds, at times totally obscured.  We watched from our deck with guests there for dinner - and the light show! What a summer!  Both for weather and for real estate. There are currently 119 active listings in the Skaneateles area of the multiple listing service.  Of these, 26 are in the village and 30 are waterfront.  Three homes were re-listed this past week, each with significant reductions in price.  Four others came on the market - a little bit of everything: new construction, almost new construction, a ranch down the lake, and a sweet Village home. The already contracted houses number 34, ...