July is Artown!

Your dance card looks like it's getting fuller by the minute, between summer camping trips, 4th of July and family vacations, you wonder how you can stuff another thing into your calendar. Well, the most exciting month of the summer is upon us with the start of Artown happening tomorrow with a bevy of events. Get ready for 31 days of art, movies, theater, dance and other amazing performances. Here's a link to the official Artown website for more information: http://www.renoisartown.com/

We hope to see you at one of many great events!

We Are The Champions...Well Almost

Team DMG has officially made rodeo history (according to rodeo staff)! Teammates Shauna Morris and Tova Ramos are the first all-female team to place in the Businessmen's Steer Decorating finals and Tova herself is the first female holder, ever!

The finals were a chaotic melee of steers, ropes and macho men. Because there were double the amount of teams (16) from every other night, there were two steer per cute as opposed to one, which was the seed of all the problems in the first place! Our steer in particular got twisted with our neighbor's and caused Tova, the holder, to let go of the rope. Now usually this means you can kiss your chances of finishing goodbye as your steer happily trots away around the arena, but fortunately our steer didn't try to make a break for it, instead he stopped and hung out until we caught him again and then proceeded to drag Tova across the arena by to lead rope and me by his own tail. Fortunately we got our act together and I tied that dang ribbon as fast as I could and booked it back across the arena to the final judge.

At this point, I knew we didn't get first but when I looked around I was getting either a lot of sentiments of peace or we had just taken second place, either way I was happy. The awards ceremony was completely disorganized and I overheard the fellow who was in charge of passing out the prizes say, "I have no idea what I'm doing! Why do I have three prizes when there's only two winners?" Needless to say we didn't get our prize in a big ceremony and then became confused on where we placed when we kept getting conflicting reports from just about everyone. Were we second or were we third?

All-in-all we came in third, but we were very impressed with ourselves, especially after having lost the steer and getting dragged across the dirt. Our prize was a sterling silver money clip with the Reno Rodeo logo in jeweler's bronze and on the back it was engraved with "2008 BSD Third Place." They're beautiful and highly functional, which makes it even better. I was given the third money clip to "give to my sponsor" so David too has a handsome money clip to call his own.

I'm already geared up to participate next year and take home the second place pocket knife and then come back for a third year and take the mother-of-them-all, the Reno Rodeo belt buckle! Keep your eyes peeled for the DMG knockout team and come out and give us your rowdiest support!

Hands-Free Mandatory in California

California is cracking down on cell phone use in vehicles. Click on the link below for answers to frequently asked questions. Be sure you have bluetooth or other hands-free device for you cell phone, the new laws take effect July 1, 2008.

http://www.chp.ca.gov/pdf/media/cell_phone_faq.pdf

Reno Rodeo

Our very own Shauna Morris participated in this year's Reno Rodeo in the Businessmen's Steer Decorating competition (sponsored by the David Morris Group of course), with teammate Tova Ramos. They were pitted against men twice their size, most of them veterans of the competition, not to mention being faced with wrangling a 300 pound steer! Low and behold they whipped the pants off their competition by a mile and took first place, much to everyone's surprise. They earned a place in the finals on Saturday, June 28 at 6:00 PM. Come out to cheer them on for the title of Steer Decorating Champion!

Historic Marsh Home

Here is a sneak peak of our recent listing on Marsh Avenue. This is a truly unique property built in the 1930's, designed by Frederic De Longchamps. One of the most beautiful, historic and unique homes in Reno. Give us a call for more exciting details, 775-828-3292.