INEXPENSIVE LE HOMME DIEU

If you can find a lot at Lake Le Homme Dieu, Lake Carlos, or Lake Darling for under $400k, buy it. And call me. You are my new go to. However, right ...
8 YEARS+ ABOVE CARLOS-DARLING

Before having a gigantic hard drive and equally gigantic cloud storage, portable hard drives were my solutions for smaller drives on the smaller Apple Macbook Air hard drives that I owned. I ...
ACTIVITY AT LITTLE DARLING

At the end of August I recorded two videos above Little Darling and merged them in which you will see in the video I embedded. One late in the morning on a ...
BIG OLE AND THE US OPEN

Last night, I arrived at MSP on a Delta flight from JFK. I had been Manhattan last week to enjoy my favorite of the five New York City boroughs and one of ...
NEW IDA-ANS

After a walk-through before closing at a Lake Ida home on Oakridge Lane, I am four of the five buyers (the husband and dad wasn't able to attend) had some fun outside ...
A SUP BREAK AT LAKE DARLING

Lake Darling information from a board on Lake Darling. **Ignore the fingers of my left hand. They were recently caught in the back hatch of a car on an airport pickup. Ouch!** ...
NEW AT LOBSTER LAKE

This Friday, a listing of mine at 1520 Golden Drive SW is active (current status is "Coming Soon", watch my video for an explanation). The temperatures were brutal today so even though ...
LITTLE LATOKA

Take a bird's eye trip around the south bay of Lake Latoka, commonly referred to as Little Latoka. The video was recorded today late in the morning beginning at the NW corner ...
A LOT GOING ON

It is a beautiful day in the Alexandria Lakes Area and I was able to hop onto my bike for a ride this morning. First, I passed by Knute Nelson Field where ...
YEAR-ROUND AT THE CHAIN

Book a showing for Blake's walk-out condo this weekend! This condo at the west end of building four boasts a fantastic view and is available for viewing on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday ...
NEW VISITOR CENTER AT BROPHY PARK

This afternoon a bike ride took me past Lake Brophy and Brophy Park. It was my first visit to the completed Brophy Park Visitor Center and I grabbed a few photos to ...
A VIEW OF CARLOS & LE HOMME DIEU. DARLING TOO.

I have a new listing at Blakes that has the "coming soon" status and will be "active" and available for showings on May 12th. Wind and warmer temperatures helped bid the ice ...
LEGACY OF THE LAKES GARDENS

Have you noticed the proliferation of walking videos on YouTube. If there is anywhere you haven't been and are thinking of a visit, search the location with "walking" on YouTube and you ...
EXPLORER STREETS

South of Voyager Elementary School and north of City Park in Alexandria on the east side of Lake Henry there are the 'Explorer Streets'. I don't think that is an official label ...
Alexandria, Brophy, Burgen, Carlos, Cowdry, Darling, Geneva, Ida, Jessie, Latoka, Le Homme Dieu, Louise, Maple, Miltona, North Union, Stony, Taylor, Victoria
17 TEMP NO-WAKE ZONES

Until July 15th or until the lake levels have decreased there is a no-wake zone 300 feet from the shoreline. The new rule is for the following lakes; Brophy, Burgen, Carlos, Cowdry, ...
DOWNTOWN ALEX SUP

If you see me on a paddleboard it will usually be out on Darling, Carlos or Le Homme Dieu. But I keep one of my boards locked into my roof rack so ...
FIRST PONTOON ON THE CHAIN?

Passing by the Legacy of the Lakes Museum in Alexandria you might notice a small pontoon outside the front entrance. Here is the story about one of the first pontoons on Alexandria's ...
FENCES IN ALEXANDRIA

Sun starved Alexandrians were outside in force yesterday, myself included. The ice is off the lakes and everyone's spirit was brightened. I was glad to be outside doing yard work in the ...
BIG OLE AND 1965 WORLD’S FAIR

58 years ago on April 22, 1964, the New York World's Fair began on 646 acres of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. There were two six-month seasons at the fair, April 22 - October ...
L’HOMME DIEU STATUS

If you aren't in Alexandria and are wondering about the status of the ice at our lakes, here is a photo of L'homme Dieu looking towards L'homme Dieu Bay, Zorbaz, and Lure ...
CO-OP OWNERSHIP

Co-ops are common in Manhattan but not Minnesota's Douglas County. One local co-op is on the east side of Lake Ida. The photo above (July 2017) shows a bird's eye view of ...
DRAWING FOR HOMES

If you are in the market for a home and know the area of Alexandria that you'd like to live, consider using my real estate search with advanced features. In it there ...
LAKE TIME TRANSPORT

It was a tough week to be in Minnesota unless you really love sub-zero weather, bad driving conditions, and shoveling snow. I don't mind any of it and the Winter Classic was ...
LAKE IDA NEWS

Lake Ida is already one of the cleanest lakes in Douglas County and steps are being taken to keep it that way and even improve its water quality. Close to $288,000 in ...