Dear Hank,

Sorry I haven’t written in awhile but I’ve been busy.

It occurs to me that I’ve got a lot going on; too much actually, but let’s review.

There’s the rental house in Maine, Bar Harbor View Cottage,

http://www.barharborviewcottage.com/

Which is rented via Greg and Sue at Hearts of Maine,

http://www.heartsofmaine.com/barharbor.htm

There’s the rental house on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Hatteras Island, called Sound Mind and Body which we have a web page for called:

http://www.hatterasislandhouse.com/

and is rented via Hatteras Realty

http://www.hatterasrealty.com/house/SOUND%20MIND

The above houses are also part of my huge mega conglomerate bent on total world domination called Half Vast Enterprises

http://www.halfvastenterprises.com/

Yes, I still have my offer open to the people of Manhattan to buy their stinkin’ island. I’ve upped my offer from ten times what they paid for it to one hundred times. I think that should create some buzz but as of yet I have heard nothing. I think having Manhattan in my portfolio would help tie together my far flung portfolio. I have thought about going the other way round the world but China is a little rich even for my blood – then there’s the language problem. Ah me.

Last year my lovely wife Shelby and I did an electronic newsletter, The Half Vaster, about life on Hatteras. It was too much work so we switched to a blog – much more satisfying. The old issues are still on line at :

http://www.halfvastenterprises.com/ezine.shtml

and are certainly worth looking at, if for no other reason than to see how skilled Shelby is at taking a bunch of random stuff , plus what I throw at her, and she making it look like the National Geographic.

This year we're blogging about Hatteras at:

http://halfvaster.blogspot.com/

And yes it’s my turn and I’m behind the eight ball, or is it the nine?

Speaking of blogging in my career as a budding up and coming author with lots of promise and not much published I’m blogging about that too at:

http://letterstohank.blogspot.com

Then there’s my author web site:

http://www.rickkinnaird.com/

which contains the super secret link:

http://www.rickkinnaird.com/bulkhead2.html

which shows in words and pictures the effects of the storms on the lawn at Sound Mind and Body.

I moved to the beach to get away from grass and lawns and all that. I’ve spent more on this dang lawn than I ever had in all the homes I’ve ever owned.

Then there’s Shelby’s business. She’s mainly a web designer but she does all the other stuff for print media too like business cards and fliers, dasher boards and canvas signage, press kits and cd covers but it’s mainly web design that she really does well. I’m her sometimes sales person. Her website is

http://www.shelbykinnaird.com/

but anytime I mention her web site she says not to tell people about it because she’s busy doing other people’s web sites. I tell her okay and that she should charge two rates for her work:

one rate, the cheapest, to do a web site right the first time from scratch and another;

the high priced rate, to undo and redo what someone has already screwed up.

So look at some of the sites she’s done (besides ours):

http://www.outerbankskiting.com/

http://www.macktruckrestorations.com/

Well that’s all for now.

Gotta go