My wife and I have been talking about buying a couple of metal daybeds to put in the guest room so that we could make the guest room multi-functional. My wife has been talking about using that room as a den/office, and having the daybeds would make it look more like an office than a bedroom. I’d like to see if we could just buy one daybed, though, and maybe it could also be a trundle. I think that would be awesome!
Carpet Cleaning in Round Rock
I’m glad that my daughter finally listened to my voice of reason and contacted the round rock carpet cleaning service that I found for her online. She still doesn’t have Internet access and being new in that area she doesn’t know many people yet to turn to for recommendations for things such as this and is too busy working and being a new mommy to go to the library to use their computers.
Their new puppy has made a real mess of their carpets and I am concerned for the health of my granddaughter because she is just starting to be able to crawl around and I really hate the thought of her crawling and rolling around on such a badly soiled carpet. There is a good chance that that carpet wasn’t even cleaned from the previous tenant when she moved in just a few months ago, so I’ll feel much better when I know that she has called and had this taken care of.
Beauty products from the sea
One of the things that always amazes me is when I read an article about how there are dangerous chemicals in a lot of the make-up products that people use. For example I read that a lot of brands of lipstick have dangerous levels of lead in them. And yet women still wear their lipstick! My sister was telling me that she has found a bath body website that sells beauty products that are made from natural ingredients and that some of the ingredients come from the sea. Ingredients like seaweed. What will they think of next?
Tide on the black market
This past week I’ve seen a couple of articles about the laundry detergent, Tide, is becoming a popular item to be shoplifted and sold on the black market. I stopped buying Tide for the most part a couple of years ago because the price has increased steadily over the years and it has simply gotten too expensive unless I have coupons to use. But I have to wonder exactly how it is that the shoplifters are getting away with stealing it? The Tide bottles are really quite large. Are they putting them on the bottom rack of their shopping carts and then just walking out the door? I’ve read that some stores are starting to put anti-theft devices on their bottles of Tide. I think that is amazing!
A new patio
One of the things that keeps me busy during the “slow season” is taking on a fence or patio installation. I usually only have the time to do one or two of those types of jobs a year, but they are good money when I get them, so I’m always happy to oblige when I get a call from a customer.
Ellen Alexander asked me to give her an estimate on the price of installing a new patio in her back yard. She had been given my name and telephone number from her friend Louise Wadleigh She needs to have an area cleared and levelled first, and then a base layer of gravel hauled in. She wants a path from the patio going through the woods down toward the lake. She also wants to have a second patio built down by the lake. She is trying to decide whether or not to install a gazebo down by the lake, and whether to have it screened in or with combination windows/screens. She wants to include a barbecue pit or a fire pit as well. She really has not made up her mind on that one.
She wants to have me do the landscape lighting installation going from the patio down along the pathway on both sides all the way down to the lake. I plan to take some brochures with me to her place that show a variety of options for the lighting and the patio pavers that I think will be in her price range.