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First Bloom in Land Park Sacramento Always Delights
Julie Elizabeth rose is a peachy yellow with impressive blooms.
Year after year, the first bloom in Land Park never fails to engage the senses. One day the weather is drab, dull and rainy, and the next, all of a sudden, it’s spring-time and everything is in bloom. We’ve had so much rain earlier this year that builders are falling behind with new construction, but our flowers and vegetation are thriving. I notice this because we need to hire a full-time weeder now. The onion weeds are taking over the back gardens, and it’s not like I will do it. Our gardener won’t do it. Where does one find a professional weeder?
Because I sell Sacramento real estate, I don’t even have time to care for a fish tank, how can I garden? Perennials are the answer. So, last summer I bought flowers for one of our new garden beds. These occupy the space where our spa used to live, the spa nobody used anymore. Over the winter, I never touched the beds, did not prune nor cut back anything. Then, this spring, flowers like the verbena continued to grow from the existing stalks. Now they are 8-feet high and tower over our garage!
If you’d like to take a peek at the first bloom in Land Park, here are a few photos I thought you might enjoy. I must add that I’m grateful to be living in a place where I don’t have to worry about whether it will snow by the end of the month, like people in Minneapolis do. I’m 99.9% certain it’s not gonna snow on our first bloom in Land Park.
Pink and cream carnations are a vintage variety
Red and white Asian Lily produces a sweet scent.
Star Jasmine reminds me of a Dutch windmill more than a star.
The first Shasta Daisy to pop up in our Land Park garden.
These tri-colored Gerbera multiplied like crazy this May.
The verbena consist of hundreds of itty bitty purple 5-point flowers.
These verbena are 8- to 9-feet tall and have grown over our garage!
Our purple crest aeonium are taller than me and produce enormous groups of star-shaped yellow flowers.
Coral aloe makes me wonder if I could make mescal from the succulent.
Photos: iPhone 7 Plus (pretty good for a cellphone), by Elizabeth Weintraub. Not that I would EVER shoot property photos with a cellphone. No reputable Sacramento Realtor would ever do that.
Cat Stevens and National Enquirer at a Land Park Nail Salon
The Land Park nail salon offers a place of solitude, relaxation and National Enquirer.
The stuff you can learn by going to a Land Park nail salon is incredible, or any place with a mounted TV, trashy magazines and no alcohol. I had my last nail appointment of the year with my manicurist yesterday, and she was running a bit behind. Rather than stare at my cell, which is what most other people do today, I glanced up at the TV and flipped through magazines sitting on the chair. My ears caught strains of the last song from my favorite movie Harold and Maude. What? I could not believe my eyes.
It was not Harold playing a banjo and skipping through the hillside to the music. Nope. Yet, there it was. A Jeep Cherokee commercial featuring the Cat Stevens Song: If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out. The words I heard were: If you want to sellout, sellout. You would like to believe that some things are not for sale. Like integrity. Time-honored traditions. Ethics. People. Institutions. The Statue of Liberty. But it’s all for sale at a price. That’s the disturbing reality of life, like finding out there is no Easter Bunny when you forgot to wear underwear to church so you should not be sitting on the top of the stairs where parishioners walk by.
Yet, not surprising, selling out is not what has bunched people’s knickers in a twist. Perhaps they got over that with Bob Dylan and Cadillac. What people are screaming about over this commercial is utter and complete nonsense, yet it exists just the same. There is all that garbage about Cat Stevens being a terrorist, which is about true as Hillary running a secret child abuse center inside a pizza parlor. All of which you can read about at a Land Park nail salon because right next to you on the chair lies the National Enquirer.
I don’t know why I thought the National Enquirer was sued out of its existence. This is not a publication I often see anywhere. It’s a magazine because it has pages with words printed on it, but that’s about as far as reality goes. It’s astonishing how they get away with making up the kind of fake news that appears in the rag. They seem to pick up a picture and then make up stories about it. So the picture is real but the story is not. The horrifying part is many people believe it. People are gullible and naive and, well, just picture the bell curve.
It’s fake news perpetrated by the National Enquirer that now plays out all over social media and Facebook, because the National Enquirer set the standard. Groups are quickly divided into the educated people who can smell a hoax a mile away and the others who fear secret government plots, aliens, while harboring disturbing thoughts their own gardeners might stab them to death when they sleep if given half a chance. ‘Twas a sad day at the Land Park nail salon for me to realize that the National Enquirer mentality owns such a big part of our otherwise normal world.
John Oliver is right. This is not normal.
New Land Park Listing Offered Under Half a Million
1800 Commercial Way, Sacramento, CA 95818, offered at $495K by Elizabeth Weintraub at Lyon RE.
This new Land Park listing is the only home between the popular boundaries of Riverside and Freeport that is offered at a price of less than $500,000. Amazingly, the prices in this particular rectangle of homes in Land Park average about $635,000 over the past 90 days of sales. Even the smaller homes in Upper Land Park, between I-5 and Riverside, average almost $450,000 over the past 90 days of sales. It’s a strong market in Land Park, a seller’s market, which is a good time to be for sale if you’re a seller. It’s also a good time to tour homes in Land Park if you’re a buyer because the trend in pricing is moving up. A rising tide lifts all boats. Get yours while you can.
As a Land Park Realtor and long-time resident, I am excited about my new Land Park listing because it’s a home guaranteed to make a buyer fall in love. That’s a recipe for happy buyers and happy sellers and a happy escrow! It’s got these space-agey columns, almost like futuristic designs from The Jetsons, which separate the formal dining area from the living room with its period brick fireplace, making it one gigantic open space for entertaining. Original wall lighting, recessed ceiling. Gorgeous hardwood floors, too. French-doors leading from an enclosed porch off the dining room to a private side-yard fenced patio.
Living room with 1938 brick fireplace at 1800 Commercial Way
The layout is perfect. All the rooms are located in the right spot and spaced appropriately. There is nothing weird about this house, and there are many unique features to adore. For example, the kitchen is pristine, calming seafoam-and-white glass subway tiles complement the granite counters, and the original cabinets from 1938 have been restored and painted a glossy white. There is a plenty of storage, a dishwasher, breakfast nook featuring built-ins and a pantry. The home seems more spacious than its 1,369 square feet noted in our Sacramento County Assessor records.
Updated Kitchen at 1800 Commercial Way features a breakfast nook.
Wait until you see the size of the bedrooms! Much larger than many homes with two bedrooms. Plus, there is an additional room that could be called a third bedroom as it has a regular window, two windows in fact overlooking the pretty back yard, but we call it a den. It’s not nearly as large as the bedrooms. The den is a perfect place to set up your home office, accessible from one of the bedrooms and also the hall. The bath features a clawfoot tub with shower and a heated floor near the tub under the ceramic.
Second bedroom at 1800 Commercial Way, Sacramento
Off the kitchen is another door leading to the back yard, where you’ll find a raised and covered wood deck with a pergola. There is also a small laundry room attached to the back of the garage with washer and dryer hookups and a sink. Or, you could use a stacked unit where there is space for it in the kitchen pantry, but some people prefer not to listen to the washer and dryer while in use; hence the separate laundry room out back. The added bonus to the delightful new listing in Land Park is the detached two-car garage. It can be a challenge to find Land Park homes with garages.
1800 Commercial Way, Sacramento, CA 95818 is open on Sunday, July 10th, from 1:00 to 4:00 PM. This new listing in Land Park is offered exclusively by Elizabeth Weintraub at Lyon Real Estate, and you can call 916.233.6759 to arrange a private showing. No showings are available today. Showings start after 6:30 PM tomorrow. $495K.
Freshly Painted Deck at Our House in Land Park
A newly painted deck at our house in Land Park.
Now that we’re not likely to see any more rain in Sacramento until Trick-or-Treating time, it seemed a good idea to paint the deck at our house in Land Park. Not that I would do it myself, mind you. Although, I thoroughly enjoy painting and doing home improvement projects. It’s such a sense of personal satisfaction. Just do not have the time available to allocate to such projects these days. My time is better spent listing and selling homes in Sacramento.
The thing I find interesante is by viewing that history in my rear-view mirror, I understand the processes behind most improvement projects, which can make me highly critical of anybody else’s work. It is why I don’t put a lot of faith in reviews by average homeowners that are submitted to Angie’s List. What do they know if they’ve never done it and don’t know what’s involved? How can they tell if the job was completed correctly? They can’t. Probably not when it comes to painting, either. I doubt their noses are stuck at the seams checking for messy brush strokes or they are running their hands over the walls to check for sanding between coats, like some people obsessed with quality I know. Not saying who.
The guy who painted the deck at our house in Land Park did a marvelous job, I’m thrilled to report. He was referred to me by another fellow Land Park agent in my office at Lyon. This fellow takes pride in his work, and it shows. First, he spent half a day prepping. About 80 percent of any job is the preparation. If you do that part right, your chances of an excellent result skyrocket. He scraped the high spots off. Ran beads of caulk over cracks in the cement to seal them. Scrubbed the old deck within an inch of its life.
You can see the before photo below of when the deck was blue. Who picked that color blue? I’m not saying who that idiot was. The new color is a rusty brick red. I pulled a thread from the umbrella for my handyman to use for comparison purposes. He said he asked two people at Home Depot whether the paint matched, and both of those people, he made a point of mentioning, were women. As though women can spot color variations better than men, I guess. Or, maybe because then he could blame my gender and be closer to getting off the hook if I didn’t like the color.
Really perks up the yard at our house in Land Park. Lends a warm glow to our interior rooms at the back of the house, too. If it wasn’t so danged hot, I’d probably sit out there.
Former blue deck at our house in Land Park.
Newly painted rusty brick red deck at our house in Land Park.
Time to Tear Down the Spa at Land Park Home
Cactus garden in Land Park (Sacramento) and covered Spa
When I mentioned to my husband that it was time to tear down the spa because a) I haven’t used it in 2 years and b) it’s disintegrating before our very eyes, his response was: why don’t we buy a new spa? I guess because we don’t use the one we have now, and it still works. It seems pointless to heat, recirculate the water and treat it with chemicals when nobody sits in it. Waste of resources, energy.
It’s been here since we bought our home in Land Park, for the last 14 years. Hmmm . . . it was probably at least 10 years old then. I’m guessing it’s about 25 years. I’ve replaced mostly everything inside the spa, the heater, the blowers, some other weird motor thing, and bought a new cover, religiously replaced the filters every year, scrubbed and drained it annually, too, why-oh-why?
See, it pays to stop and take stock of your surroundings every now and then. Time to tear down the spa. The lattice work around the spa was losing its integrity, pieces have been flying off. When the workers began dismantling it, it was clear the bottom portion below the deck had badly deteriorated. Still, I didn’t want to throw it into the city dump. So, I asked a trusty source, my housekeeper, if she knew anybody who could use it.
Enter into the picture, Howard. Howard just had knee surgery and his doctor suggested that a spa would help him to recover faster. Perfect match. We would give the spa to Howard. Following are photos of that process. Plus, Howard was so happy he gave my husband and me a gift, which was very much unexpected yet super cool.
Yes, time to tear down the spa. Goodbye spa. Hello future garden beds.
Spa tear down in Land Park, Sacramento, photo 2
Spa tear down in Land Park, Sacramento, photo 3
Spa tear down in Land Park, Sacramento, photo 4
Spa tear down in Land Park, Sacramento, photo 5 with Howard
Spa tear down in Land Park, Sacramento, nothing but dirt.
