Football Eisenlauer Touchdown...

High school football season has begun! Last week was the season opener for Grandview Park Baptist School. The Eisenlauer boys dominated! One of the parents said they expected a sign to be posted in the endzone - Sold - Eisenlauer Team! John made 4 touchdowns, Dillon made one. Fox 17, KDSM has a special program on Friday nights at 11:00 pm. It is the 5th quarter and highlights high school football. The Fareway stores sponsors a student athlete of the week, and John Joseph is a student of the week tonite! Congrats JOHN!

Rant about new S.E. Polk High School

A computer guru told me I need to do online "rants". So here's my rant. About a month ago the Pleasant Hill Chamber members were offered a tour of the new South East Polk High School currently under construction. The place is Huge and Amazing! Top of the line, cutting edge everywhere. There is an automotive workshop, metal woking lab, woodworking shop all with the latest technology available. Each classroom is wired for the newest form of teaching gadgets - laptop can be projected on screen for the class, whole school announcements in each classroom, no blackboards, all white boards. The Cafeteria will have different "cafe" areas so you can get a plate lunch, salad bar, a la carte, whatever suits your current mood. The gym is outstanding! It can accomodate 6 basketball games at once, or house all the fans for one big play-off. Swimming pool for the ducky - everything state of the art. Except the lockers! These are high school kids, not grade school kids and the lockers are 4' x 12"x 12". I get the 4 foot height- they want adults to be able to see over the lockers to moniter a whole block of kids at once. But why 12" wide? The top ( and only shelf) is 12" x 12". The rest is open with a couple of hooks. I know what kids take to school - books, change of clothes, not to metion the stuff they left there yesterday, last week and the week before....how is all this going to fit into 12" x 12"x 4' hole???? It is inane that this provision is so inadequate. The other thing I would question is the very luxuriously and tastefully tiled bathrooms. I think bathrooms for teenagers should be stainless steel with a power hose and a drain in the floor. When they vacate, you can spray the whole thing down from top to bottom and let the dirt swirl down the drain. The tour guide's remark was "The theory is if we give them something nice, they'll take care of it". Wasn't that the theory of all the public housing projects all over the country?? And look how well they've been tended to.

So that's What's Bugging M.E....let me know what you think.

And remember my opinion does not reflect the opinion of the management.

Bill -770-2455 and Bob - 979-2883 just want to help with your real estate needs!

Many Musings

Does anyone else get tired of hearing gloomy national news? If we believed it all, we'd all curl up in a fetal postition! Real Estate is Local! There are great deals in real estate, the mortgage rates are still low...and most people CAN obtain a mortgage loan! The Register did an article this week about the local market being close to where is was one year ago. So call your LOCAL experts (Bill 770-2455 Bob 979-2883) and don't hunker down and hide. Life is good here in Des Moines!

Early OctoberFest. Beat the rush, celebrate Octoberfest in September! The Des Moines German celebration is this weekend.

Sport Season Lap The sport seasons seem to have more of an overlap. Highschool football and volleyball are coming to the end of their season. World Series is starting. And winter is knocking at the door of the MidWest.