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10/30/2026

Around DFW This Weekend | Oct. 30–Nov. 1

Halloween weekend, plus the last weekend for a few fall favorites.

Dallas Farmers Market | Dallas
Sat Oct 31 and Sun Nov 1, free. Seed scavenger hunt, live music, balloon art, and Día de los Mu***os with mariachi and Ballet Ollimpaxqui. Market open 9–5 Saturday, 10–5 Sunday.

Trick or Treat on Downtown Streets | Main Street Garden, Dallas
Sat Oct 31, 4–7 p.m. Free. The 8th annual one, with treats, live entertainment and costumes everywhere.

Stage Fright Family Festival | Sammons Park, Dallas
Sat Oct 31, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Free, RSVP encouraged. Costume contest, zombie dance lessons, petting zoo and an SPCA adoption van.

Street 'N Treat | Grand Prairie City Hall
Sat Oct 31, 5–9 p.m. Free. Games, face painting, crafts, petting zoo, inflatables and a costume contest.

Autumn at the Arboretum | Dallas
Through Nov 1, ticketed. Last weekend for the pumpkin village.

What is your Halloween plan?

10/29/2026

If you want a weekend trip that feels like a real escape without the drive, go sit on the square in Denton.

The courthouse in the middle dates to the 1890s. Its cornerstone was laid in 1896 and it was dedicated the following year. It is still the center of town.

Walk a lap, then walk into Beth Marie's Old Fashioned Ice Cream on West Hickory. It opened there in November 1998, and it still looks like a soda fountain should look.

Sit outside with a cone and watch the square do its thing. That is the whole plan. It is a good one.

Do you have a go-to small town square around here?

10/28/2026

Wellness Wednesday

The ten minutes between work and home might be the most underrated part of the day.

We go straight from the last call to the front door. Same clothes, same screen, same head.

Mine is simple. Shoes off at the door. Dog out back. Phone on the counter, face down, until dinner is going.

It is not a routine I read about anywhere. It just keeps the whole evening from feeling like a continuation of the workday.

What is your version? Even a small one counts.

10/27/2026

When sellers ask me what to fix before listing, they usually expect a long list. The honest answer is shorter than they think.

Decluttering beats almost everything else. Buyers are not judging your things, but clutter makes rooms read smaller than they are.

Light matters more than people believe. Open the blinds, change the bulbs, wash the windows.

Then the maintenance items buyers notice right away: anything water related, anything an inspection will flag, and fresh paint where a color has gone dated. Not because each one returns money, but because visible upkeep tells a buyer the home has been cared for.

The ones I would skip: a rushed full kitchen remodel, or projects you cannot finish well before listing.

Cared for beats perfect.

What is the first thing you would tackle?

10/26/2026

Monday Thoughts…

The fastest way to stop noticing your neighborhood is to live in it long enough.

First week, you notice everything. Third year, you could not tell me what color the house across the street is painted.

So here is my challenge for the week: walk out front, look around like you just got here, and notice one thing you had stopped seeing.

I suspect most of us have a tree, a porch or a view we have been walking past for years.

What is yours?

10/25/2026

Sunday has its own rules.

Lawnmowers start around 9, like everyone agreed to it in advance. Somebody is washing a car that was already clean. A dog has strong opinions about a delivery truck.

Then by 2 p.m. the whole street goes quiet, and everybody is very committed to insisting they are not napping.

If you want to meet your neighbors, Sunday is the day. They are all home, pretending to do yard work.

What does Sunday look like on your street?

10/24/2026

Every neighborhood has one. The tree that turns before anybody else.

Your street is still solid green, and then there is that one sweetgum out front going full red like it read a different calendar.

I have a theory about it. That tree is not showing off. It is just the one that noticed first.

Same thing happens on a street in spring with the first house to put out flowers, and in December with the first set of lights.

Somebody has to go first. Might as well be the tree.

Does your street have one? And is it yours?

10/23/2026

Around DFW This Weekend | Oct. 23–25

Big fall weekend, and this one spreads across Tarrant, Denton and Collin counties.

Lake Worth Monster Bash | Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge
Sat Oct 24, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Regular park admission applies, and hayrides are $5 per person on top of that. Guided hikes, Goatman talks, kids games and a costume contest too.

Denton's Day of the Dead Festival | Downtown Denton
Sat Oct 24, 11 a.m.–9 p.m. Free. Coffin races start at noon, lantern and costume parade at 7 p.m.

Rest In Plano | Haggard Park, Downtown Plano
Sat Oct 24, 5–10 p.m. Free. Trick-or-treating, carnival rides and costumed characters.

Halloween Par-Tee | The PGA District, Frisco
Sat Oct 24, 6–9 p.m. Ticketed, advance purchase required. Pumpkin putting, trick-or-treating from golf carts and a movie at 7.

Trunk or Treat | PetSuites McKinney
Sat Oct 24, 3–6 p.m. Free, kids and dogs both welcome.

Where are you headed this weekend?

10/21/2026

🌿 Wellness Wednesday 🌿

Thinking about all the people I've said "we should do that soon" to. 🙃

Wellness isn't always a solo project. Sometimes it's a long lunch, a phone call on the drive home, or finally putting a date on the calendar instead of "soon."

Pick one person. Send the text today. ❤️

10/20/2026

One thing I've noticed with buyers this year: more room to negotiate. ⏱️

Not a hunch. DFW listings are sitting on the market longer, months of supply has climbed compared with a few years ago, and price cuts are common. Seller concessions are back in the conversation.

What you can reasonably ask about:
🤝 Closing cost help or a rate buydown
🔍 Inspections done calmly, with room to ask questions
📝 Repairs or credits if the inspection turns something up

This isn't about winning. It's about making a big decision with a clear head instead of a stopwatch. 😊

Address

151 W Walters Street
Lewisville, TX
75057

Telephone

+12144033581

Website

http://jodigibbs.ballmarkrealty.com/

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