Category Archives: Quad Cities

Places To Go In Clinton, Iowa (Depending on the Season)

  • Eagle Point Park
  • Riverfront walkway
  • Sawmill Museum
  • Discovery Center Children’s Museum
  • Discovery Trail
  • Lyon’s Farmer Market
  • Showboat Theater
  • Candlelight Inn
  • Downtown Shopping District
  • Clinton County Historical Museum
  • Riverfront Park
  • Wide River Winery
  • Lock & Dam 13
  • River Arts Center
  • Valley Oaks Golf Course
  • Bickelhaupt Arboretum
  • Pickleball & Tennis Courts
  • Clinton County Courthouse
  • Visitor Center Kiosk on the River

Reasons NOT to use a realtor when you are buying a house

  1. You ARE a realtor
  2. You are a real estate lawyer
  3. You are married to a realtor or real estate lawyer
  4. You can get into locked houses legally
  5. You know how to line up your own home inspector/sewer inspector/electrician/ plumber/appraiser /mortgage pre-approval/underwriting/closing attorney

Condo
My new home!

 

Things I Would Rather Be Doing (Assuming the Weather Was Nice Enough for Weather Dependent Activities)

  • Reading a good book
  • Visiting family
  • Watching Survivor
  • Sitting around a campfire
  • Making s’mores
  • Eating s’mores
  • Walking in the sunshine along the river
  • Wilderness camping
  • Writing & editing a novel
  • Binge-watching home shows like Flip or Flop, Love It or List It, Desert Flippers
  • Getting a pedicure
  • Getting a massage
  • Decorating a Christmas tree
  • Planning parties
  • Eating stuffed crust pizza

Good Things Happening In August in the QCA

  • 4th – English Channel Swim Challenge awards & speaker
  • 4th & 5th – Yard Sale for Haiti
  • 7th – Zapdos raids begin in Pokemon Go
  • 10th-12th – Tug Fest – Tug of War across the Mississippi River
  • 11th – Tug Fest parade & fireworks — Rumble Over the River
  • 12th – Family GaGa Ball Tournament
  • 19th – Dinner with my Trivia team
  • 20th – Updating Red Cross Lifeguard Instructor water skills meeting
  • 26th – HyVee Family Health Fair
  • 27th – Aquatic Staff Picnic & Meeting

 

Tugging for Iowa

Possible Activities for While My Family is Visiting From Out of Town

  • Vanderveer Park
  • Swim at the Y
  • Bettendorf Family Museum
  • Putnam/IMAX
  • Channel Cat water taxi
  • Red White & Boom
  • ComedySportz
  • LeClaire (American Pickers, Happy Joes, shops)
  • Steel Plow shakes
  • Blackhawk State Park
  • Game Night