Dorie's Canyon Creek Blog

While on our family southern Caribbean cruise over Christmas we enjoyed the shows and after show fun! One night they offered Silent Disco!!! With 2 granddaughters who love to dance we found ourselves experiencing something new and different…Silent Disco!! We procured headsets and learned we could dial up three types of music and adjust our […]

On our Celebrity cruise to the southern Caribbean over Christmas with our family we all bought raffle tickets for a $300 drawing held in the casino one evening. The only caveat was you had to be present to win! The first number called the owner of the ticket wasn’t present….good for me as the next […]

Dorie Dillard is the “most frequently hired agent in the Canyon Creek Subdivision.”   Check out Canyon Creek area single family homes sold in the Fourth Quarter of 2016 compared to 2015. The numbers are in and homes sold did so with positive appreciation. While 2015 Fourth Quarter was encouraging, 2016 shows an increase in […]

What an exciting month of fun activities is planned here in Austin! We don’t slow down because the holidays are over! Austin Free Week is getting the year off to a great start with 11 days & 100+ shows across the city…check out their website and plan to visit your favorite! Pokemon Symphonic Evolutions at […]

Happy New Years everyone! Just got back late last night from a wonderful time with all our kids and grand kids on a Celebrity Cruise in the Southern Caribbean. Hard to believe we were just relaxing in Megan’s Bay in Saint Thomas a few days ago building sand castles. We all watched son John Dunham’s Alma mater Clemson trounce Ohio […]

It’s the holidays and Janis Borgueta and her husband are visiting their relatives in Austin. They brought in the cold weather when they arrived but we have been chasing it back north and today should be in the high 60’s, clear blue skies and sunny ! I follow Janis’s blog and always enjoy reading about […]

2016 is coming to an end tomorrow night.  Looking for a great place to ring out the old or ring in the new? There is a sexy and modern, classic Italian-American Supper Club in the basement of the historic 1918 Stratford Arms Building on 6th Street in downtown Austin that would be perfect.   SOPHIA’S […]

At the sound of the tolling midnight bell a brand new year will begin. Let’s raise our hopes in a confident toast, to the promise it ushers in.   May your battles be few, your pleasures many, your wishes and dreams fulfilled. May your confidence stand in the face of loss and give you the […]