One of my plans for the new year is to send out a newsletter when I think a truly good deal has come on the market or when a property has been lowered to a price making it a great buy. Most of the notices WILL NOT be my real estate listings, however I hope to be the buyer's agent.

I will include a link which will give the readers more detail on that property.

When purchasing Northern Neck Real Estate you might be in an area that might not really be a town any longer but back in the steamboat days these landings were commercial centers. One such area would be Wellford's Wharf. Today it is only know by locals.

This are names that could be more familar:

Ophelia, Kilmarnock, White Stone, Heathsville, Weems, Warsaw, Burgess, Windmill Point, Irvington, Merry Point, Coles Point, Hague, Lancaster, Kinsale, Reedville, Montross, Callao, Wicomico, Farnham, Lottsburg, Reedville, Mt. Holly, Edwardsville, Mollusk, Sunnybank, Lottsburg, Sandy Point, Tappahannock, Sharps, Morattico, Lewisetta, Bertrand, Edwardsville, Kinsale, Mollusk, These towns are located within Westmoreland, Northumberland, Richmond, Lancaster, Essex Counties.

We do have good fishing here in the Northern Neck but no we don't catch fish in the Wal-Mart parking lot.

Yesterday I told the boys to meet we there.

When we return Bill Oakes was unloading the fish from my cooler to theirs.

I asked him to hold up 1 of the fish so you could see the size and type of fish we are catching now.

Remember when I'm not fishing I sell real estate.

Sometimes people get confused but what is the use for living in the Northern Neck if you can't enjoy it.

Water surrounds you in the Northern Neck and all of it would be considered a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay.

Many people looking for waterfront property want to be or have a friend on one of these bodies of water.

Rosier Creek, Monroe, Mattox, Popes, Ferry, Dancing, Wilton, Jackson, Moore, Healy, Currioman Bay, Poor Jack creek, Smarts, Nomini, Mathews Cove, Pierce, Buckner, Lower Machodoc, Cabin Point, Glebe, Branson Cove, Blackbeard pond, Long, Gardner, Jackson, Bonum, Parkers, Shannon Branch, White Point, W. Yeocomico River, Hampton Hall Branch, S. Yeocomico, Mill, Lodge, Dungan, Palmer Cove, Garners, Judith Sound, Kingscote, The Glebe, Wrights cover, Coan, Boathouse Pond, Cod, Presley Creek, Corbin Pond, Hull, Cubitt, Hack, Ellyson, Spring Cove, Willis, Back, Bridge, Sharps, Slough Creek, Gaskin, Owens Pond, Horn Harbor, Coles Point, Betts Mill, Blackwell, Crawley, Balls, Tipers, Barrett, Mill Creek Headwaters, Hurst Point, Taskmasker, Cockrell, Reason, Whays, Warehouse, Gougher, Shell, Cranes Creek, Bailey Prong, Towles Creek, Harveys, Mill, Cloverdale, Ball, Ingram, Natty Point Cove, Lawrence, Prentice, Jarvis, Bames, Henrys, Bells creek, Arthur, Pitmans cove, Longs, Rones Bay, Lees, Hunts, Johnson, Chases, Poplar Neck, Georges, Ashleys, Harpers, Oyster, Little Oyster, Windmill Point, Mosquito creek, Bush Park, Woods, Hunting, Sturgeon, Broad, Jackson, Moore, Coves, Healy, Cobbs, Chapel, creek, Whiting, Meachim, Locklies, French, Ferry, Dancing, Wilton, Taylor, Carters cove, Ashburn Cove, Bridge Cove, Sams, Dunton, Eastern Branch, Yopps, James, Currell, Old Mill, Deadman, Bones cove, Senior, Davis, Lowery, Myer, Moran, Hills, Bells, Punches cove, quarter, Browns, Camps Prong, Norris, Camps Millpond, Norris, Ewell Prong, Chinns, parrots, Morattico, Mulberry, Greenvale, Whitehouse, Millenbeck, Harry George, LaGrange, Robinson, Urbanna creek, Town, Mud, Pecks, Totuskey, Richardson, Farnham, Menokin Bay, Doctors, Cat Point, McGuire, Jugs, Balls Creek VA.

Thats a lot, is it?

Here it is the first part of December and leaves that have not fallen still have color.

It is funny how some years the colors are just okay and then a year like this one comes and it is one you will always remember.

The other day I was outside and looked over in the woods beside me and saw what I thought was a red pickup truck parked behind some evergreens in the woods.

My thoughts were how did he get that truck back there and then I thought that a road had been put in. With that thought I decided to walk over and look because if that were true then someone might be planning on building a house there.

When I got back in the woods what I found was a short tree with long branches and the reddest leaves you could have imagined. The green I was seeing was actually behind the tree.

For the next few days I would go out to look it it again and everytime I would still think it looked like a truck in the woods.

So remember when looking for real estate the Northern Neck has more than waterfront property.

DECEMBER - 2007

1 – Heathsville Golden Christmas – 10-3. RHHT

1-2 – Holiday Open House. Celebrate the holidays with refreshments, tours, tastings, and special holiday wine. 10-5 Sat., 12-5 Sun. Ingleside Oak Grove.

1-2 - George Washington Birthplace Christmas Bazaar. 10-4. Unique gifts in Birthplace book/gift shop at visitor center. Complementary tea, cider, cookies at Log Cabin.

2- Urbanna Holiday House Tour – 10-5. Selected homes and businesses decorated for holiday. 758-9850 $

2 – Tree of Love illumination, Richmond County Courthouse. Christmas caroling, memorial lights, refreshments, tour of decorated museum. 4 pm. Warsaw.

6- “O Come All Ye Faithful” Traditional songs, carols, and hymns sung a capella. Historic Christ Church volunteers and community friends are invited to participate in this seasonal songfest in the beautifully “greened” church. 3:00 pm. Historic Christ Church, Irvington.

7-8 – Annual Christmas at Stratford Hall. 4:30-8:00 pm. Start your tour with a presentation on Christmas traditions in the Visitor Center and then cross the foot bridge to refreshments and caroling. Learn how food was prepared at the outdoor kitchen and then join your guide at the Great Hall for music and dancing. Cost of the tour is $10 for adults and $5 for children. Restaurant is open by reservation only. Cost for dinner and tour is $48 for adults and $24 for children. Stratford.

8 – Santa arrives in Reedville. 9:00 am. St. Nick arrives by boat at the dock of the Reedville Fishermen’s Museum.

8 – Santa arrives at the Richmond County Museum. 1-4 pm, photo with Santa, refreshments, gifts, and corner gift shop open. Warsaw.

8-9 – Annual Christmas on Cockrell’s Creek house tour and holiday event. Reedville Fishermen’s Museum.

8-9 - Holiday Open House. Celebrate the holidays with refreshments, tours, tastings, and special holiday wine. 10-5 Sat., 12-5 Sun. Ingleside 

14 – Holly Ball Exhibit – Kilmarnock Museum.

14 – Kilmarnock’s Annual Illuminated Christmas Parade.

14 – Colonial Beach House Tour.

15 – Christmas Open House. Come celebrate the season. Refreshments. Mary Ball Washington Museum. Lancaster.

15-16- Art open house. 11-5, poetry and music. Sunday - 3-5 pm. A-Ibanez Museum & Sunrise Studio gallery 

29 – Join in the celebration of the 12 days of Christmas. The Memorial House is decorated for Christmas, candlelit and filled with Colonial music. The plantation will be busy with demonstrations and activities performed by costumed interpreters. 9-6. George Washington Birthplace National Monument.

Remember to keep searching the Northern Neck MLS for your real estate needs.

I keep wanting to give a fishing report for the Northern Neck waters and Chesapeake Bay but I am finding it hard to do. I can't stop fishing.

Does that tell you anything?

I have been catching decent size rockfish since the week before Thanksgiving most in the 35" - 40" range.

If the weather (the wind) coperates then I expect some real wall hangers to be caught from now to the end of the year.