Tony & Darcy - The C Team's Blog

I thought that I would add another reminder of the summer that we left behind.  It has snowed here for the past two days, and I should go and take photographs, but it is cold, and I am fighting a chest cold.  So I thought that I would remember warmer times, in some sort of positive thinking to help get past this chest cold.

It is a peony, which is a flower that my parents had in abundance in our yard when I was a child.  To me, they have always meant summer as their beautiful flowers make their entrance (at least here) usually around Memorial Day.

This is a photo of our dog Kobi and his half eaten tennis ball as he is hiding under the coffee table.  He had enough playing catch and was not about to share his ball with our other dog, Moira, who is older and not as nimble as Kobi, thereby she couldn't get under the table thus making the ball safe.  

Thus Moira Surrendered to her sofa.

Often, dogs are very similar to children!

We have enjoyed a really nice couple of weeks weather wise.  Yesterday and today we have been receiving snow flurries with some small accumulation here and there.  I am sure that Brian Head will probably get 6 to 10 inches out of this storm.  It isn't all that unusual to have snow at the end of October in the valleys, I can remember a year in Northern Utah where we had 6 or 8 inches before Halloween.  That wasn't a great Trick or Treating year!

That is one thing to remember about this area, we do have all four Seasons.  Autumn will come back for a couple of more weeks after this storm system clears out.  We will then have Winter, which is not my favorite season. Winter typically lasts from the end of November to at least Mid February.  We will have storms come through, but usually things begin to warm up in February.  We generally have a week of really cold temperatures.  (At least for here they're cold, there are many places much, much colder.)  This is generally the first week or so in January when the temperatures hover in the zero degree range.

Springs here are generally nice, we will still have snow storms come through the area which typically will still drop a few inches of snow, then once they clear out it usually warms back to Spring like weather.  The really warm temperatures will generally begin around the end of April to the middle of May, with Summer like Temperatures usually by Memorial Day.  

Summers are usually hot and dry, temperatures will be in the mid 90's most of the Summer, again there is generally a week to 10 days of temperatures over the 100 degree mark.  Then by mid September, the heat begins to subside and cooler nights and pleasant days are the norm.

This is a very general and brief over view of the weather here in Cedar City.  This is not carved in stone, this past summer was mostly cool and wet until nearly August for example.  There is a joke around here that if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes it will change.  Another thing about Cedar City is that we are near the mountains, which means that we do enjoy winds and breezes almost everyday.  

Another to remember if you are going into the mountains, be like the Boy Scouts and Be Prepared!  Good tires and in the winter tire chains are often required if you don't have a 4 Wheel drive vehicle with good tires.  Another thing to keep in mind is that these are mountain roads, and because of the danger are not plowed at night, when in doubt, wait until morning if there are storms in the area.  Because of our elevation even the Interstate can become very treacherous to drive.  

I wrote this blog to give all of our friends an idea of what generally to expect, it is a very beautiful area, but the weather can be bad at times.  Any way I hope that this helps you plan your trips to our area, we do honestly have something for almost everyone because of our 4 Seasons, so come on up and enjoy!

Have you ever had one of those days when things just keep popping up and you lose  your focus:

Then there are just some days that things get in your way, causing you to lose sight of the "big picture":

These are the times when you just have to keep on pushing through until the "big picture" comes back into view!

I could go on and on putting photos of the area on here, but Darcy said that I should stop, that I should save some of these other photos for later.  As usual, she is probably correct.  I don't want to inundate you with photos.  I will say this, we have seen a huge increase in Real Estate activity this week.  We are hoping that each of you enjoy the photos that we have posted.  

We also hope that you all have a Great Weekend, and may you all see an increase in business in Real Estate activity!  I have been thinking about Sally Cheeseman's challenge and now that the contest is over, I would like to say that it is hard to compare life before and life with Active Rain.  How to you compare darkness and light?

That is what it was like before and after or with Active Rain!  Before I had so many questions that no one either could or would not  answer.  Now I ask a question and get dozens of people with answers or solutions.  Before I had a small snippet view of real estate in just our area.  Now I realize just how localized real estate is, each market is different.  Things that work in some markets don't work in other markets.  There are many things that affect all markets but that doesn't change the differences in local markets.

The best thing is all the amazingly talented and brilliant people here on the 'Rain!  I have so many people whose opinions I trust completely, those same people I had no idea who they were before the 'Rain.  I find myself looking forward to the blogs of many of you, in fact, too many to write down here.  I will forget someone and that would be something that I would hate to do.  All of you are too important to us for that!

So once again, I say to all of you, my trusted and valued friends, thank you and have a Great Weekend!