Archives: January, 2010

If your garage has become so cluttered that your cars have to spend their nights out in the driveway, now is finally the time to make some much-needed changes. Garages often are convenient repositories for all those “I-don’t-know-where-to-put-this” items and the stuff just accumulates until your garage is no longer a convenience: but rather, it [...]

I am an animal lover. It started when my father gave me a present during my 9th birthday. He gave me a five month old Dachshund puppy. From that moment on, every year, I would expect an additional pet in what I call my mini zoo. Today, I already own 10 pets and hopefully will [...]

We live in a time when it is usually cheaper to buy something new instead of trying to fix the one we already have.  I have personally discovered this many times when dealing with electronic products like the camcorder we had to replace or my laptop.  When it comes to Bar-B-Q’s, however, they can easily [...]

If you are like many who move out on their own, you have learned how much your parents did for you.  Many of the comforts of life that we enjoy and have come to expect are the result of our parent’s hard work behind the scenes. We tend to take these things for granted until [...]

Does this sound like you? In the middle of the night you lie awake in bed during a powerful thunderstorm worried about whether or not the deluge will result in a flooded basement- again. Or, instead of welcoming the annual spring thaw, you dread it because of the potential damage the water run-off could do [...]

Watching movies is one of the things that my husband and I really enjoy doing together.  There are many movies that my husband and I love to watch over and over again because we think they are so good.  We definitely have our own favorite movies that call out to us in different ways.  No [...]

Imagine for a second: the winter storm is blowing around outside. A billowing fire crackles and sparks from the fireplace, its fierce waves keeping you warm. You sink deeper under a blanket, thinking about nothing in particular and enjoying the fact that you can. Few scenes are quite as idyllic or enticing as a wood [...]