Recent Crime 92127 Posted September 5, 2011

Recent Crime 92127 Posted September 5, 2011

Photos from the 1st Annual Shay & Associates Doughnut Run

Photos from the 1st Annual Shay & Associates Doughnut Run

Recent Crime 92127 Posted August 29, 2011

Recent Crime 92127 Posted August 29, 2011

Movie in the Park - Last Movie September 17th

Movie in the Park - Last Movie September 17th

What a wonderful turnout last Saturday at the Movies in the Park! The Summer Movie Series is brought to you in part by Shay & Associates, Dr. Brian Davey, San Diego Parks and Rec and presented by Wilsey Asset Management and our very own 4S Ranch Master Association.  

The last movie of the summer will be Toy Story 3 on September 17th. Be sure to bring toys for the Toy Story 3 Toy Drive! 

Recent Crime 92127 Posted August 20, 2011

Recent Crime 92127 Posted August 20, 2011

European Wax Tuns 1 Year Old!

European Wax Center – 4S Ranch August 20, 2011

Can you believe it – Our baby is 1 year old! You are cordially invited to come celebrate our anniversary. The party fun includes a professional Barista offering free European espresso, café lattes and flavored coffee, Bellini’s and treats for the big kids and Face Painting for the little kids!

(Call the wax center (858.487.4200) for the details.)

To celebrate our anniversary we will give you double the referral points when you bring a friend that is new to European Wax Center. Your friend can receive one of our introductory services absolutely FREE of charge! AND….. When you schedule your services for August 27^th or 28^th you will receive 10% off your services as our gift to you.

Also, you can enter to win a fabulous trip to Santorini, Greece! Remember, the more referrals, the better your chances of winning this great trip.

Don’t forget to “like” us on Facebook at European Wax Center – 4S Ranch. We will donate a Full Face Wax Service to the local chapter of the YWCA Empowering Women program for every 10 new friends on Facebook through the end of the year. So please help us help women who are less fortunate and trying to get back on their feet and into the workforce. All you have to do is “like” us and ask all your friends and family to “like” us too.

We hope to see you soon!

Your Guest Services and Wax Specialist Team at European Wax Center - 4s Ranch!

River Rafting! A Great Family Time!

We were recently in Colorado and had the chance to take our 7, 10 and 12 year old boys on a half-day river rafting adventure.  It was great!  We had a senior river guide who had not fallen out of the boat all year.  That was, of course, until he met our two families.  It wasn't a big bump, but before you knew it, we had no guide!  It was pretty wild.  He scrambled back into the boat cursing the fact he would have to buy a case of beer for the other guides.  Consider rafting next year. We all had a great time!   

When your number is up...

In police work we always felt when it was your number, it was simply your number.  You never know when your final moment on this earth will arrive. When Chief Lansdowne spoke at Officer Jeremy Henwood's funeral last Friday, he said investigators found a still warm paper bag full of uneaten food from McDonalds on the passenger seat of his car.

It was evident he had been ambushed only minutes after leaving the McDonalds on University Ave.  SDPD Detectives returned to the McDonalds to see if there had been a confrontation of some type. The Detectives and the manager huddled in the cramped office as they played back a video tape and saw the last few minutes of Officer Henwood's life. 

As they reviewed the tape it showed Officer Henwood purchase his lunch and then begin to leave the restaurant.  It was then he saw a young boy standing back from the counter counting the coins in his hand and appearing disappointed. Jeremy approached the youth, smiled and then removed money from his own wallet and proceeded to buy the child lunch.  That little boy will never forget the big, tall, kind, policeman that helped him.  We won't forget Jeremy either.  

Be safe and enjoy your week! 

Indoor Sidewalk Sale 2011 at Civil Disobedience in 4S Ranch

Indoor Sidewalk Sale 2011 at Civil Disobedience in 4S Ranch

Can you say Sidewalk Sale?? Run; don't walk to Civil Disobedience because these deals are sure to go quickly. Jewelry, jeans and cute tops by the handful all with prices slashed like you won't believe. Look for the little dots and save some money at the indoor sidewalk sale at Civil Disobedience! Plus, pick up a copy of Clint Perry's children's book Pack Rat Pat and his CD entitled "Clint Perry and the Boo Hoo Crew".

Recent Crime 92127 Posted August 12, 2011

Recent Crime 92127 Posted August 12, 2011

Community and Officers Mourn Loss

I had lots of material to pick from this past week.  Seven days in mile-high Denver Colorado with family and about thirty kids and their parents, will do that.  As we began to board the plane Sunday afternoon, it all changed.

As we faced the challenging task of getting all the kids and their random soccer balls on to the plane,  I received a phone call from a close friend and retired SDPD Officer.  I knew it was bad news the minute he started talking.  The tone and voice inflection was controlled, clear and serious. The way cops in crisis talk,  "I'm sure you have heard what is going on here in San Diego".

As we stood in line in the hot jetway he explained how Mid-City Division Officer Jeremy Henwood was ambushed by a cowardly and suicidal male with a shotgun.   Jeremy had merely stopped his marked patrol car to assist what he thought was a motorist in need of help. He was the second San Diego Police Officer to be killed in the line of duty in the last ten months.

My thoughts immediately jumped to his family, and then the dreaded silence his fellow officers would be experiencing when they attended line-up.  Line-ups in large police departments occur twenty-four hours a day and are usually positive with lots of laughter and good natured kidding.  There will be no laughter today or for quite awhile in the eight divisions of SDPD.

As I sat back in my cramped airline seat, I decided I was not going to write a story this week.   I was going to, "take a break".  Most of last night and again this morning, I continued thinking about all the heroic police officers and the citizens who tried to save Officer Henwood.

Thirty minutes prior to launching our weekly emagazine this morning, Hannah was asking again for this week's story.  I realized how gutless I was being.  After all, when do law enforcement officers or military personnel ever get a chance to stop, or, "take a break"?

Never.  It is extremely difficult for them to even catch their breath or really mourn the death of a fellow officer.  Despite how much they are personally suffering, the world around them keeps turning and the drug abusers, gang members, predators and the criminal elements never, ever let up.

Officers drive by crime scenes 24/7.  They get used to entering, exiting, and managing crime scenes.  Being in them and being around them is all part of the job.  It is so different when it is one of your own or their vehicle is in that restricted area of crime scene tape, numbered markers and the flashes of a lab technicians camera.

Stopping is never an option for cops or men and women in combat.  The mission must be continued.  So when you see a law enforcement officer or a member of our military please take moment to stop yourself and say, "Thank You".  It may be the only break they receive all day.

92127 Real Estate - Posted August 8, 2011

92127 Real Estate - Posted August 8, 2011

The pie charts above show what's currently on the market in 92127 as of August 8, 2011. There are a total of 417 homes. 

The bar graph above shows the average sale price of homes in 92127 

for each month in 2010 and 2011. 

The bar graph above shows the number of homes sold each month in 2010 and 2011 in 92127.

Thank you for your interest in our 92127 Real Estate Dashboard. For a more complete accounting of the value of your home or to discuss any of your real estate needs, 

please call Ray or Theresa Shay at 858-449-4970.

Recent Crime 92127 Posted August 6, 2011

Recent Crime 92127 Posted August 6, 2011

Hike to Lake Hodges from 4S Ranch

Hike to Lake Hodges from 4S Ranch

Alex, Ying and Tyler.  It was great hiking with you!

From the Kitchen Window

From the Kitchen Window

Hallelujah!  I finally figured out why my mom, who has long since passed, so loved her kitchen window in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  She could wash the dishes in the kitchen sink and look out the window past her Pyracantha bush that covered much of the window.  The bush allowed her to see what was going on in front of our home without really being seen.  She could watch the world and her seven children as we struggled to grow up.

I always wondered what my mom's "intelligence" source was.  How did she know I had pulled Patty's hair? Or knocked one of my four brothers off their bicycle?  Or the infamous time, at about age seven, when I got caught in a lie by denying that I had actually peed in the garden.  I recall with horror my siblings chanting as they sat around our enamel kitchen table, "liar, liar, pants on fire, hang them from a telephone wire".  Wow, a telephone wire?   I wonder if there are any of those still around?

This past week, I was surprised to find my Mother's source of information. If I was in the mob, the informant who provided the information would be placed in concrete and dropped in say, Mission Bay?  Not deep enough!  This rat has to go down where it is deep and dark.  But how do you sink a piece of clear glass that is simply a view to the world around you?

It was about six pm last Wednesday evening when I confirmed what my mom's source of information had been all those years.  It solved a forty year old mystery.  The rat was in fact, the kitchen window which was a porthole into our lives.  It was quite quizzical that I discovered this so long after my mom had passed.   It was pure happenstance that I paused in front of our kitchen sink to look out.  In today's world, we do not pause nearly enough.  There is always more to do.  With the sink in front of me, I peered out to see our seven year old son, Ryan carrying out a bowl of dog food from the garage for our six month old puppy, "Rosie".  I had no Pyracantha or rose bush to provide cover, but you don't survive twenty-four years as a street cop without being able to work the angles of a window frame to your benefit.

Ryan gently set the bowl down in front of Rosie in the driveway.  He then sat down and crossed his legs to watch her eat.  Ryan was totally consumed with what he was watching.  His little hands were on his lap as our puppy dug furiously into her food causing the food to start to build up and overflow on one side of the the bowl.  Ryan took his right hand and politely pushed down the swelling mountain of dog food so the puppy could eat more easily.

I felt like I was in a trance. I so wanted time to stop.  I then wondered why we do not stop more frequently to just watch our children.  I tried to imagine what Ryan was thinking as he patiently waited for Rosie and repeatedly the pushed down the growing mountain of food.  Some small kernels of the food scattered from the bowl on to the driveway.  His little hands then grabbed the kernels of dog food

in each hand.  As Rosie finished the food in the bowl he quietly placed both his hands behind his back, concealing the last dozen or so bits of her food.

It was like he had a little surprise for our puppy.  As Rosie sniffed around for more food, he gently held both of his closed little hands above the bowl and then ceremoniously released his treasure.  As the kernels fell to the bottom of the bowl, he smiled and I could hear his little angelic little boy voice say, "Here you go Rosie".  Rosie did not need encouragement.  She finished the remainder of her food.

It was then I realized why despite the cold weather, my mom always kept the kitchen window at least partially open. It also popped into my head why I got so busted, so many years ago.  My mom never really saw what I had done early that summer morning ... She simply had heard my transgression.    Boy I miss her and that old window that brought so much joy to her and our entire family.

Enjoy your week.  We have a nice four bedroom cul-de-sac home coming up for rent on the south side of 4S ranch on Sept. 1st.  We also have two awesome cul-de-sac homes hitting the market shortly.  One with a huge yard! If your interested please give us a holler.  Don't forget, Theresa and I are never too busy for your referrals. I promise we will take great care of them.

Take care,

Ray and Theresa Shay

92127 Paparazzi!

92127 Paparazzi!
Photography of the wonderful event by Kim Dybczak of Kim Dybzcak Photography. For more information or to schedule Kim at your next event, email kimdibby@yahoo.com.