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How cool is this? Want to find some of the most impressive trees in Albuquerque? Check out this GIS site -

TreePlotter

With the new administration coming in, there's a lot of uncertainty in the solar industry about now, I'd expect. But for the heck of it, here's the December Solar Power World policy snapshot -

The Solar Policy Scoop: December 2024 Massachusetts legislature passes new climate bill that includes siting, permitting reform Boston, Massachusetts Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey in

While swimming in the ocean, a lawyer gets caught in a rip tide. As he struggles, the tide pulls him inexorably out to sea.

His family starts crying for help. Beach goers run to the edge of the water. Everybody is in a panic as a lifeguard jumps down from her chair and runs toward the waves.

Suddenly, the drowning lawyer is lifted up out of the water by a shark, who then tosses him onto the back of another shark.

That shark starts to knife toward shore, the lawyer perched atop and smiling. As they approach shore they are joined by more sharks. The convoy brings the lawyer to the shore, and the shark he’s on rolls gently and drops him in shallow water.

Everyone watches this in shock. Finally, as the lawyer slops onto dry land, someone asks the lawyer what in hell everybody just
witnessed -

The lawyer smiles and answers, “Ah, well, just a little professional courtesy.”

The housing market here in ABQ has cooled a bit but is still very strong. Here's what happened in September -

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We saw mortgage rates brush 6% for a week or two then jump. This is a pretty good, if brief, explanation of the importance of looking deeper at what the rates mean. Keep in mind it's mortgage bonds and financial market expectations about those bonds and the underlying pressures pushing them down or up that affect mortgage rates. The fed rate, not so much -

Here's What's Really Going on With Mortgage Rates This Week We can appreciate that the daunting task of determining what "the" actual mortgage rate may be at any given moment.  The word "the" is singled out in the previous sentence because there isn't one, perfect, singular, "going rate" for a mortgage.  Th...