Candy Evans

Long Cove Opens Limited Priority Reservations for Dodd’s Landing Cottages

By Candy Evans | May 18, 2014 |

It seems like everyone I know is buying a lake home, most of them settling on Long Cove at Cedar Creek Lake.  If you are looking for a waterfront front property closer to Dallas, Those Waterside Cottage Homes over at Long Cove are selling like hotcakes. And as predicted when I was there last summer,…

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Spring Bass Fishing in East Texas Means House Candy & Fat Fish

By Candy Evans | April 10, 2014 |

We’ve looked at a few ski areas recently (namely Aspen and Taos), but as the temperatures warm and ski season begins to wrap up, it’s time to return closer to home and talk about the really important stuff: bass fishing!

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Second Home in the Hill Country: Recipes From Boot Ranch for “Inner Peas”

By Candy Evans | March 28, 2014 | Comments Off on Second Home in the Hill Country: Recipes From Boot Ranch for “Inner Peas”

Boot Ranch is our favorite vacation (or permanent!) home community in the Texas Hill Country. When Chef Aaron J. Staudenmaier moved to Fredericksburg (from Dallas — he worked under Chef Kent Rathbun at Abacus, Jasper’s and at the farm-to-table concept, Rathbun’s Blue Plate Kitchen) to become the Boot Ranch Executive Chef in October 2012, he came…

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Long Cove’s First Longhorns Arrive and the Expectations are Great!

By Candy Evans | March 13, 2014 |

A precious family of three just “bought” some major water-front property over at Long Cove: Betty, Wilma, and Pebbles! And even better news: they are expecting! 

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Long Cove Gears Up, Literally, for Super Fun Spring Season

By Candy Evans | March 12, 2014 |

Doug Gibbs, Director of Resident Services over at Long Cove, tells us he is gearing up for the most active spring season ever. EVER. And he means that literally because The Toy Barn — remember that? — is filling up with athletic equipment of all kinds. From Lacrosse to biking and baseball and fishing, there is enough…

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Spring Break Vacation Home Primer: Karen Wagner Sells Santa Rosa Beach, Florida

By Candy Evans | March 10, 2014 |

This week is spring break for a lot of peeps, and we know that a hefty slice of Dallasites and North Texans have invaded the Beaches of Walton County, Florida, those picture-perfect white sands along Highway 30-A in the panhandle of northwest Florida. And after October, we might just re-populate the place.

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