This Thursday, June 14th, is Yoga in the Park.

We got some great goings on here in the land of the PHX. Check these out….

Every Thursday night in June, July & August, from 6:30 – 7:30pm, you should bring your Yoga mats for the FREE All Ages Yoga Classes at Civic Space Park‘s A.E. England Gallery. (It’s inside, behind the walls where they hang the art. There’s a a huge room for things like this. Cool, huh?)

(photo: Michael | Ruiz)

Oh! And bring a blanket, too. Cause afterwards, from 7:30 – 9pm, Walt Richardson will be playing a FREE concert. I’m assuming you know who Walt is–if you’ve lived in Phoenix metro for any significant length of time, you know, but just in case you don’t, check out his website at his link and this the 2000 feature article, “Harmony Grit“, from the Phoenix New Times.

For more info, check out the Yoga in the Park flyer.

This Sunday, June 17th, 2012, is Father’s Day.

Are you taking your father/grandfather on the FREE LIGHT RAIL this Saturday, the 16th, to the Van Halen Concert at US Airways Center? (No, no, not everyone goes free on the light rail. Just those going to the concert.)

If that’s not your speed, why not take dad/grandad to the Arizona Science Center (ASC) for FREE GENERAL ADMISSION, 10am – 5pm? Yep. Completely free. In honor of Father’s Day, the ASC is also handing out 200 family 4-packs of tickets to their upcoming feature exhibition of Raytheon-sponsored, MathAlive!

(photo: public domain)

This unique exhibit debuted in March of this year at the Smithsonian and is “designed to excite students by making real-world connections between math and the activities students already love to do,” said Raytheon Chairman and CEO William H. Swanson. “Our goal is to engage and inspire today’s students to remain interested in math and science so that they have the opportunity to become the engineers and technology leaders of tomorrow.”

The Arizona Science Center is also participating in WIRED Magazine’s National GeekDad Day this coming Sunday. I get Wired. This Geek Dad issue was a great idea!

Dads and kids will be able to take part in these special hands-on activities :

– baseball dissection
– light stick dissection
– saltwater batter exploration
– build an art bot
– make electric play-doh

Many of you probably got up this morning and read the paper or heard the news that RealtyTrac was reporting that foreclosures were up over the month or two.

So, those folks who have been long-predicting a “wave of foreclosures” may be feeling bolstered. Don’t get too excited, my friends. That myth has not been true and it still won’t be. See this link for some reasons WHY you won’t see that happen.

But your thought for the day: put this news in perspective. 

Foreclosure notices have been going down steadily since late 2010. In fact, the height of foreclosure notices was way back in March of 2009. 

Just to be clear, a foreclosure notice is when the lender sends a note to the home owner saying they are going to take the house back. This notice is recorded with the county recorder. So, that is where the data comes from: direct from the source.

From the perspective of my buyers who are frustrated by the lack of inventory on the market, more foreclosures is good. It means more houses on the market. But to put it in perspective, it probably won’t add even 10 percent more homes on the market than there were at the beginning of this year.

So, why am I saying this? Is it ecause I don’t want to go to another cocktail party and hear some guy talk about the “wave of foreclosures” that the “banks are sitting on” while he munches on his organic, fair trade soy chips? 

No. I’m telling you so that you know it is time to buy now before prices go up and it is time to start thinking about selling while the market is hot and interest rates are low.

Call me. I’ll buy the soy chips. 602-456-9388.