Thursday, June 10, 2021 / by Jenny Carroll
As summer begins to settle in and temperatures rise, it’s the perfect time to schedule your annual check up for your home. A check up for my home, you ask? Yes! The health of your home needs to be assessed annually to nip any potential issues in the bud as well as identifying problems before they become failures. Here are some things you can do to maintain your home and keep your systems running smoothly all year long.
What kinds of things should we be looking for?
Air Conditioner
Good question. Your A/C system, your home’s main support system in our hot summer climate, should be checked by a professional at least once a year. As it gets hotter outside our usage goes up and that’s when issues can take us unawares. Don’t find yourself sitting in a hot house this summer because you didn’t clean off your condenser unit, pour vinegar in your drainline, or you didn’t check coolant levels. Having a professional A/C company service your syste. ...
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family, home, new, summer, home improvement, water, electricity, spring
Thursday, June 10, 2021 / by Jenny Carroll
Contributed by Jami Carroll of Stanberry Bastrop
Many of us are familiar with the idea that Bastrop is home to the famous “Lost Pines.” Yet, what types of trees are these pines, exactly, and how did they get so lost? The origination of this coniferous mystery occurred over 2 million years ago during the Ice Age when glaciers covered large swaths of the Earth. At some point during the Pleistocene Epoch, about 70 square miles of loblolly pine trees became separated from their counterparts in East Texas—most likely due to global cooling and glacial movement. The Pleistocene marked the appearance of large land animals and birds, as well as the evolution and expansion of our own species, homo sapiens. The famous La Brea Tar Pits of Los Angeles, California date back to this same era.
Isolated from their eastern relatives, the Loblolly Pines (Pinus taeda) of Bastrop County became affectionately known as the “Lost Pines.” One of seven types ; ...
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Monday, April 12, 2021 / by Jenny Carroll
What could be better than combining the beauty of the Hill Country of Dripping Springs with brand new, affordable, modern farmhouse townhomes? It sounds unattainable, right? Ruben Contreras, Co-Owner of Hidden Oaks at Dripping, LLC. together with Stanberry Realtors® is excited to bring to you a development in the heart of Dripping Springs that offers just that.
You are invited to can come see for yourself what a comfortable and convenient lifestyle The Grotto has to offer. Contact your favorite Stanberry agent today for more information. O 512-327-3910
Each townhome starting in the mid $400's. See the flyer here.
The Grotto, a sustainably built development currently under construction off 290, just west of Highway 12, is nestled on ±25 acres and sits minutes from DSISD’s highly rated schools and Dripping Springs city retail and service centers. The community will eventually consist of 100 modern farmhouse styled condo townhomes to be built i ...
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family, home, new, dripping springs, affordable housing, grotto
Monday, April 12, 2021 / by Jenny Carroll
Contributed by Jami Carroll
With warm weather and bright blooms all around, Central Texans enjoy spending time with family and friends outdoors. The annual Spring Festival at Barton Hill Farms in Bastrop invites families to celebrate the season on its picturesque family-owned farm.
Owned by Andrew Taft & Craig Swanson, Verde Park includes 15 acres of Native Texas pecan, Eastern cottonwood, & Bald cypress gently leading to the banks of the Colorado River. Part of Stephen F. Austin’s colony, the land was originally settled in 1833 by Josiah Pugh Wilbarger. Barton Hill Farms includes replicas of the old Wilbarger Fort and The Lively--Stephen F. Austin’s “pirate ship” that was lost at sea en route to his Bastrop Colony. The educational aspect of the farm also includes five historic signs around the courtyard that reveal the history of the land and its structures; “each sign has a QR code & webpage where visitors can find more. ...
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family, fun, exercise, warm, gifts, festival, spring
Thursday, March 11, 2021 / by Jenny Carroll
An Austinite's Experience Getting An Appointment For The COVID-19 Vaccine
Monday morning I found myself with an open web browser and what felt like a thousand tabs along the top of my screen. Walgreens, HEB, CVS, Austin Public Health (APH), Walmart, Sam’s Club, and others. Every hour on the hour I refreshed each screen to see if notification of COVID-19 vaccination doses had appeared on any site. As you may have guessed, none did.
Sure, I could have driven six hours to Odessa, TX for the off chance of receiving it from one of the cities listed on HEB’s site with doses but there are simply too many issues with that endeavor. No, we’re sticking close to home for this. We’d registered weeks ago on the Austin Public Health site but hadn’t heard anything from them on when to expect the eagerly awaited email saying it was time to schedule our appointments. If you’ve spent any time looking online for available vaccines then this all sounds familiar ...
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family, covid, social distance, freedom, virtual party, mask
