Middlesex, Virginia Residential Home Sales Statistics by Year Comparison

These numbers are based on Information obtained from the Chesapeake Bay and Rivers Association of Realtors Multiple Listing Service and Information Herein Is Deemed Reliable but Not Guaranteed

For information on Deltaville, VA real estate or Northern Neck of Virginia homes for sale, please give me a call at 804-339-5282 or email me at Bonnie@BonnieVest.com or visit me on the web www.DeltavilleRealEstate.com or www.VestTeam.com

Bonnie L Vest, REALTOR®
Long & Foster Realtors
P.O. Box 1090
White Stone, VA 23182
804-339-5282
www.BonnieVest.com
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Celebrate the season of Christmas with an old fashioned hayride sponsored by the Deltaville Community Association (DCA). This annual event provides visitors an opportunity to see all the Christmas decorations along Lover’s Lane and the beauty of the lights glittering on the water of Jackson Creek. The fun begins with a hayride from the Community Center, located in the center of town, to the town dock where visitors board a typical Chesapeake Bay deadrise, or similar vessel, for a tour of Jackson Creek. After the 30-minute cruise, a return hayride takes folks back to the Community Center for free homemade cookies and hot cider. Santa will be available to receive the children’s wish lists at the DCA building . Cruises leave at 5, 6, and 7 pm and an 8 o’clock cruise will be scheduled if the earlier cruises are sold out. Local businesses will hold an open house throughout Deltaville between 5-7 p.m. where you can purchase tickets for the event and shop for that perfect Christmas gift. Don’t forget to bring an unwrapped gift for Toys for Tots and drop it off at the Long & Foster Deltaville office.

For information on Deltaville, VA real estate or Northern Neck of Virginia homes for sale, please give me a call at 804-339-5282 or email me at Bonnie@BonnieVest.com or visit me on the web www.DeltavilleRealEstate.com

and www.VestTeam.com

Bonnie Vest, Realtor 804-339-5282

Long & Foster Bay/River Office, 17457 General Puller Highway, Deltaville, Virginia 23043

TOYS FOR TOTS COLLECTION SITE

Long & Foster in White Stone and Deltaville, Virginia are collection sites for Toys for Tots again this year. There are many families that need your help in order for their family to have gifts for Christmas. We have been very fortunate to have a local “Santa Claus” that donates many toys and bikes every year. Although they request to remain anonymous, we appreciate their love and support. All of the toys collected will go to the Middlesex Social Services Department and distributed to local residents according to their needs.

Please bring a new, unwrapped toy in to one of our Long & Foster offices or call me and I will be glad to pick them up. Help make a child smile this Christmas. The Toys for Tots drive ends on Dec. 17 in order to deliver the collected toys to the local officials! Many thanks and happy holidays to you and your family…

For information on Deltaville, VA real estate or Northern Neck of Virginia homes for sale, please give me a call at 804-339-5282 or email me at Bonnie@BonnieVest.com or visit me on the web www.DeltavilleRealEstate.com

or www.VestTeam.com

Bonnie Vest, Realtor  (804) 339-5282

Long & Foster Bay/River Office, 17457 General Puller Highway, Deltaville, Virginia 23043

Blogging from my warm office with power, I feel very fortunate. Yesterday and today have made for hazardous weather conditions on the Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck of the lower Chesapeake Bay. Thousands are without power and coastal flooding has occurred in much of the Region. In Deltaville, VA, the wind has been blowing out of the NE at 30 MPH with gusts up to 40 MPH. We have had 4-5″ of rain mixed with extremely high tides. Today is expected to bring another couple inches of rainfall with winds 26-28MPH gusting as high as 38 MPH. The roads going into White Point subdivision and Stove Point are flooded out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1c9aFlbBA0

NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has deployed a new “Smart Buoy” stationed at Stingray Point. For up to date weather conditions and forecast’s, visit their website below.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Stingray+Point&state=VA&site=AKQ&textField1=37.5586&textField2=-76.3056&e=0

Local Tide Chart for Stingray Point, Virginia

http://www.runtimecompany.com:10080/locations/2803.html

For information on Deltaville, VA real estate or Northern Neck of Virginia homes for sale, please give me a call at 804-339-5282 or email me at Bonnie@BonnieVest.com or visit me on the web www.DeltavilleRealEstate.com

or www.VestTeam.com

Bonnie Vest, Realtor

Long & Foster Bay/River Office, 17457 General Puller Highway, Deltaville, Virginia 23043

The small waterfront town of Urbanna opens its streets for the 52nd annual Oyster Festival November 6 and 7, 2009.  One of the nation’s oldest seaports will welcome over 75,000 visiotors, by land or by sea, into the small town of Urbanna, Virginia.  Urbanna Creek is off the Rappahannock River, a tributary to the Chesapeake Bay.  Don’t worry, if oysters are not your favorite seafood, there will be many other tasty regional entree’s to sample.  You are sure to find clam chowder, clam fritters, crab cakes, turkey legs, funnel cakes, and much more.  The streets of Urbanna close to automobile traffic and are lined with local artists and vendors exhibiting all sorts of wares.  Visitors are free to walk around this quaint waterfront town and sample food while they listen to live music and shop for arts and crafts or that one of a kind hand knit sweater or quilt.

The festival officially begins Friday, November 6, 2009 at 10 a.m.  The Fireman’s Parade begins at 7p.m. and is followed with a live band and dancing behind the Firehouse from 8pm to Midnight.  Saturday is the Virginia State Oyster Shucking Contest at 11a.m. and the Oyster Festival Parade at 2p.m.   For all the details of this event, please visit www.UrbannaOysterFestival.com or www.Urbanna.com

Prosperity Mortgage is offering bus transportation for Long and Foster Realtors.  Please check with your Prosperity Mortgage representative for details.

For information on Urbanna, VA real estate, Deltaville, VA or Northern Neck of Virginia real estate, please give me a call at 804-339-5282 or email me at Bonnie@BonnieVest.com or visit me on the web www.DeltavilleRealEstate.com

or www.VestTeam.com

Bonnie Vest, Realtor

Long & Foster Bay/River Office, 17457 General Puller Highway, Deltaville, Virginia 23043

                                        Within rural Middlesex County, Virginia is Deltaville, Virginia 23043 A small, quaint fishing village surrounded by water.

Deltaville is celebrating its 100th birthday this year. http://www.ssentinel.com/index.php/rivah/article/welcome_to_deltaville/ 

Although there is a reported population of approximately 1600, these numbers do not account for the growth in population during the summer months in which the so called “come here’s” retreat to their “rivah” homes.

Once known as the wooden boat building capitol of the Chesapeake Bay, Deltaville, Virginia is on the western shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay. The eastern shore is approximately 17 miles across the Bay and makes for an easy day sail. The eastern tip of this Middle Peninsula is Stingray Point, named by Captain John Smith after being stung by a Stingray. (Latitude 37.5674 Longitude 76.2572) Captain John Smith has been quoted as saying “Heaven and earth have never agreed better to frame a place for man’s habitation”.

There is only one road in and one road out of Deltaville, Virginia and that would be State Route 33, also known as General Puller Highway. Stingray Point is the end of the road and meets with the Chesapeake Bay.

The town of Deltaville is bounded on the north by the Rapphannock River and on the south by the Piankatank River. There are many creeks and marshes meandering off these Rivers. Sailing, powerboating, fishing, kayaking, canoeing, swimming, and all things relating to the water is what makes Deltaville an ideal vacation community.

Middlesex County has over 22 marinas, most are in Deltaville. It is not unusual to meet many transients travelling North to South or vice versa. Deltaville is a favourite layover for many “snow birds” heading South for the Winter.

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Take me out to the Ball Park….”the Deltaville Ballpark — that’s its name, plain and simple!

It is a different experience than even a low-level minor league can provide. It’s amateur baseball, featuring mostly college-age players, at a World War II-era ballpark in a small town that adores its team. It’s great fun for the young at heart.

Think it costs too much to take the family to a ballgame these days? Admission to a Deltas game is $5 — unless you’re 12 or younger, in which case you get in free. There’s no charge to park in the grass next to the ballpark, and in fact, if you arrive early enough you might run into some of the players as they get dressed for the game in their cars (since the park has no locker rooms). At the concession stand, you can get a hot dog, chips and a soft drink for less than $3.

Many years ago, there were ballparks like this one all around the Northern Neck. The Deltaville Ballpark — lovingly maintained by the entire community — is the last one still standing. Several years ago,” the outfield fence had to be replaced. Chain link would have been cheaper, but the committee that maintains the ballpark knew that wouldn’t do. In order to keep that vintage look, they made it from lumber and corrugated metal, using volunteers and prison labor to construct the fence.

Deltaville fans sit in wooden grandstands behind home plate or along the third-base line, protected from foul balls by a fence. Most similar ballparks used chicken wire; at Deltaville, they used the same type of wire used to make crab pots. “It was very available in this area,” Deltas manager Jerry Crittenden says.” http://www.dailypress.com/travel/dp-deltavilletravel,0,2259434.story

Deltaville is protected by local volunteer fire fighter’s and medic’s. The nearest hospital’s are about a 30 minute commute to Gloucester or Kilmarnock on the Northern Neck.

The Lower Middlesex Volunteer Fire Department and the Middlesex County Volunteer Rescue Squad are funded by donations and events. The Rescue Squad holds Bingo every Monday night and has an annual Chicken & Shrimp dinner. The Fire Department has many fund-raising events such as the annual Crab Feast the first weekend in August.

A visit to Deltaville, Virginia is like taking a step back in time. A Mayberry RFD type of town with a much slower pace, there’s no need to be in a hurry in Deltaville. The only traffic jams you might encounter are at the start of a sailboat race.
Deltaville is just a simpler place in time… www.DeltavilleVa.com

For information on Deltaville, VA real estate or Northern Neck of Virginia real estate, please give me a call at 804-339-5282 or email me  at Bonnie@BonnieVest.com  or visit me on the web www.DeltavilleRealEstate.com

or www.VestTeam.com

Bonnie Vest, Realtor

Long & Foster Bay/River Office, 17457 General Puller Highway, Deltaville, Virginia  23043

Ah, the smell of spring is in the air. Fresh flowers blooming,

fresh cut lawns, and yes, the free stuff:

So, if you don’t have enough @#$% in your life, you can get that for free in Wake, Virginia. Time to get those flower beds in order and stir up some…..! Sorry, I just couldn’t help myself when I saw this sign on the side of the road.

Within Middlesex County, Virginia is a little town called Wake. Wake is beautiful horse country, There are big horses and little horses, black horses and white horses. The little horses are known as the Wonder Horses and are about the size of a large dog. Adorable!

Yes, Spring is in the air. The horses are frolicking in the pastures and it can’t help but bring a smile as you see a gentle kiss between two lovers.

Bonnie L Vest, REALTOR®
Long & Foster Realtors
Deltaville Bay/River Office

Deltaville, Virginia 23043
804-339-5282
www.BonnieVest.com
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I have mixed feelings about the possibility of Long & Fosters current President, Dave Stevens, being appointed by President Obama to lead the Federal Housing Administration.  Dave has done great things for Long and Foster in such a short amount of time.  Although he would be an exceptional canidate for this position and our Country, he will certainly be missed by myself and others at Long and Foster.  There has not been an official announcement from the White House yet, but appears it will be forthcoming in the next few days.  http://www.cnbc.com/id/29817619/

Bonnie L Vest, REALTOR®
Long & Foster Realtors
P.O. Box 1090
White Stone, VA 23182
804-339-5282
www.BonnieVest.com
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Deltaville received about three inches of snow.  It wasn’t much but enough to keep the children out of school for the much anticipated snow day.  There was enough snow for some neighborhood children to build this cute little snowman.  Enough snow to make the treetops glissen.
                

Living in a small, waterfront, resort town can be a bit boring in the winter months but jumping in the Chesapeake Bay in February is just crazy. It was all in the spirit of a good cause, collecting donations for the Deltaville Volunteer Fire Department, however, I cannot fathom jumping into 40° ± water. My husband, being a professional fire fighter for the City of Newport News , suited up in a dry suit and waded out serving as a rescue diver. I served as a spectator with my donation in hand. I prefer not to participate in any activity that requires a Rescue Squad and Certified Diver on site. I applaud those that participated in the Plunge at Stingray Point as well as the Virginia Beach Polar Plunge the same weekend and many others around the Country.