Life...Fun and Kentucky Real Estate

 Kentucky's own, George Clooney gets the red carpet treatment for his new movie,"Leatherheads" in Maysville. 

The whole town is abuzz with Hollywood style activity to get everything ready for his arrival and world premier on Monday night. March 24, 2008.

Hosting the event is the Washington Opera Theatre in downtown Maysville.

Millions of dollars of equipment needed to run the movie will be installed by Universal Studios. (TONS of equipment!) A red carpet will run from the corner of the Shugars Supply building up to the entrance of the theater. A white picket fence will separate spectators from the red carpet.

This will really be a all day event since spectators have will be arriving along with guests that actually have a ticket to get in. Two shuttle buses will run from the area of Limestone Street and Second Street to the event.

Check in HERE for the full details and inside scoop on the preparations and master plan.

If you have time head on over to Maysville to get a glimpse of Mr. George Clooney!

Lizette Fitzpatrick - Baby Boomer Real Estate Relocation Specialist with Prudential Don Foster in Richmond, Kentucky.

Rated number #1 featured Kentucky Realtor®  on Activerain.com and Localism.com. Publisher/Author for the only Central Kentucky email newsletter on local real estate listings and sold properties, Kentucky relocation, local events, homeowner information and fun! For more information on Lizette, Kentucky Horse Farms, Prudential Don Foster, Madison County, Fayette County, Richmond or Lexington, Kentucky click on Lizette.us.

See for yourself what Lizette's extraordinary clients have to say about their Kentucky real estate experience.

Central Kentucky's Legendary Rock Fences 

Central Kentucky is world famous for Thoroughbred horses and endless miles of rock fences (Dry stone walls).

There are more rock fences here than any place in the USA. In Central Kentucky only 5 -10% of these 19th century rock fences built by Irish Immigrant stonemasons still stand. 

These stonemasons passed their craft on to black slaves that became masters of the craft of building rock walls. This is where the term,"slave walls" came about. Since I grew up here in the Bluegrass, this is what I had always thought they were. I had no idea that the walls originated with the Irish immigration to the Bluegrass!

Our walls are mostly built with local limestone that is plentiful in the fields. Once cleared and prepared for agriculture, the stone was easily used as border walls to pastures. All the stones are laid free-handed with no mortar. My examples of Central Kentucky's legendary rock fences below were photographed on Spears Mill Rd. in Bourbon County, Kentucky. These walls are where the bridge crosses Stoner Creek.

Building these rock fences has almost become a lost art. Dry Stone Conservancy in Lexington, KY is dedicated to preserving dry-stone structures and training a new generation of artisans in their construction and maintenance.

Fayette and Scott counties have ordinances to prevent removal of rock fences in public rights-of-way. This has protected many from disappearing forever. When they get damaged in large sections from accidents it is difficult to restore them and many just fade away.

I drive by these everyday and I have to respect the time that went in to design and building them from materials from our beautiful land.

Every now and then you see the bumper sticker that says, "Growth Destroys Bluegrass Forever". It is true.

I always laugh and tell people that I live in the land where time stands still... but I do see it fading away stone by stone. Sad that we all want progress and conveniences. One day in the future all this will just be these few pictures I took on a sunny March day in 2008. A moment in time.

Kentucky ROCKS!

Come see it now.

Lizette Fitzpatrick- Principal Broker at Lizette Realty.

#1 featured Kentucky Realtor on Activerain.com and Localism.com.

Publisher/Author for the only Central Kentucky email newsletter on local real estate listings and sold properties, Kentucky relocation, local events, homeowner information and fun!

For more information on Lizette, Kentucky Horse Farms, Lizette Realty, Madison County, Fayette County, Richmond or Lexington KY real estate 

click on Lizette.us.

See for yourself what Lizette's extraordinary clients have to say about their Kentucky Real Estate experience. Copyright © 2009 By Lizette Fitzpatrick, All Rights Reserved..*Central kentucky's Legendary Rock Fences*

After touring horse farms yesterday , I took some time to take some beautiful pictures of Paris, Kentucky.

This shot was of an old red motorbike complete with sidecar traveling South on 627 just outside of Paris. I wanted to get a good picture or two of the stone(slave walls) and this cyclist got in front of me.

Delicately balancing my camera on the dash of my car at 65 MPH I snapped this cool picture!  My destination was Spears Mill Road where Stoner creek was overflowing it's banks. I had been there twice in the past few weeks with relocation clients and I made a mental note to go back for some awesome pictures.

This is another one that I took on down the road of a beautiful house on the hill, meandering creek with some ducks in the lower right corner. This house was HUGE!

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Lizette Fitzpatrick - Baby Boomer Real Estate Relocation Specialist with Prudential Don Foster in Richmond, Kentucky.

Rated number #1 featured Kentucky Realtor®  on Activerain.com and Localism.com. Publisher/Author for the only Central Kentucky email newsletter on local real estate listings and sold properties, Kentucky relocation, local events, homeowner information and fun! For more information on Lizette, Kentucky Horse Farms, Prudential Don Foster, Madison County, Fayette County, Richmond or Lexington, Kentucky click on Lizette.us.

See for yourself what Lizette's extraordinary clients have to say about their Kentucky real estate experience.

ALERT!

Home inspection does not have to be painful!

My Wisconsin transplants, Cindy and Dave are enjoying their visit to the Bluegrass State.

While in Kentucky this week, they found their dream home, a brick ranch on a basement. Located on a nice hill with a backyard view of farmland, trees and horses. 

They were thrilled!

As soon as they found the house, we had time to get the home inspection before they left to go back North.

Activerain's Kentucky Home Inspector - Erby Crofutt responded in lightning speed to spend hours and hours looking into every nook and cranny of the house.

One good thing was that Erby's down home sense of humor was just exactly like my client's humor.At the end of the inspection I snapped this pic of all three laughing in the driveway. They were swapping BIG fish tales, best places to fish and other stories.

Sure there are always things that can go crazy from the inspections but a lot of the outcome can be repaired or negotiated.

My clients had a great time getting to know Erby and learned a lot about their new house and some fantastic tips on how to take good care of it.

Thanks Erby, for helping my relocation clients feel like locals!

They had a great time and can't wait to get moved in.

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Lizette Fitzpatrick - Baby Boomer Real Estate Relocation Specialist with Prudential Don Foster in Richmond, Kentucky.

Rated number #1 featured Kentucky Realtor®  on Activerain.com and Localism.com. Publisher/Author for the only Central Kentucky email newsletter on local real estate listings and sold properties, Kentucky relocation, local events, homeowner information and fun! For more information on Lizette, Kentucky Horse Farms, Prudential Don Foster, Madison County, Fayette County, Richmond or Lexington, Kentucky click on Lizette.us.

See for yourself what Lizette's extraordinary clients have to say about their Kentucky real estate experience.

In the past few weeks I have been touring with clients all over Central Kentucky.

I have been in Lexington, Richmond, Paris, Winchester,Harrodsburg, Versailles, Midway, Frankfort, Berea, Waco & Paint Lick. All of these places have been toured with clients that are relocating to Kentucky.

Many clients found me on the Internet Lizette.us or Activerain.com/ky and trusted me to help them find the perfect home in Central Kentucky. Some were referred by other clients.

Some called me from one of my listing signs. Maybe that particular house wasn't the one, but we are working on finding the right one to suit their needs.

Some of these clients will need two or more visits to become accustomed to our weather, beautiful topography and southern charm.So much good stuff can be overwhelming!  Haha! Everyone gets a welcome packet full of information, fun things to do, local attraction and surprises that are tailored for each client's tastes.

I'm just amazed at all the terrific new friends I have made because of the Internet!Better yet they want to move to Kentucky. Well...they have found the perfect tour guide and cheerleader for our state... Call me 859-979-2834, anytime, let's go look at some houses, horse farms or land. You  are going to love it here!   

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Lizette Fitzpatrick - Baby Boomer Real Estate Relocation Specialist with Prudential Don Foster in Richmond, Kentucky.

Rated number #1 featured Kentucky Realtor®  on Activerain.com and Localism.com. Publisher/Author for the only Central Kentucky email newsletter on local real estate listings and sold properties, Kentucky relocation, local events, homeowner information and fun! For more information on Lizette, Kentucky Horse Farms, Prudential Don Foster, Madison County, Fayette County, Richmond or Lexington, Kentucky click on Lizette.us.

See for yourself what Lizette's extraordinary clients have to say about their Kentucky real estate experience.