Mike Hunter Sudbury

I've been keeping this kind of useless statistic since 2011. Taking all the sold houses in Sudbury from 1/1/2018 to 12/16/2018 I sort them by color and then create a pie chart to show what color represents how much of the market. Here it is. Commentary below. For 2018, much like last year, the dominant colors are gray and tan, the earth colors. Then the brights, white and yellow. And last, the RGB colors. It's interesting this year the mix of RGB has really expanded in the blue and green tones. White seems to be shrinking in popularity. And my annual dig at lazy agents, 30% of the listing agents didn't even bother to put in the color of the house in their listings. Really people? Did you ever even walk into the house? Yellow, this year in particular, seems to be popular on capes. They do look really nice when the lawns are lush and green and then nice against the white snow in winter. Looking to buy or sell or just talk about real estate, get in touch.

So you’ve read through all the seed catalogs, sharpened and oiled all your gardening tools, and are looking longingly at the garden wishing there was something growing. Whatever you do, don’t go into the garden and start digging or tilling. The soil will become compacted and you can actually ruin it for the upcoming year’s crops. Instead, here’s what I do. Get a large vase, at least 10” tall and fill it with cool water. Then go out to your forsythia patch and cut a few stalks about 2’ long. You’ll get the best blooms if you take the younger stalks, nothing over ½” in diameter. Then arrange them in pleasing array, fastening the bundle with some twine or florist’s wire, and place into the vase. In about two weeks, depending on the warmth of the room they’re in, you’ll have beautiful yellow blossoms, just in time for the spring holidays. To further decorate the stalks, you can hang colored Easter eggs with ribbon and make it into an Easter egg tree. You can start a wonderful famil