Fresh Vegies Traded For Clean Pool Privaleges

Posted on 16th February 2012 in Entertainment/Fun, Food, Home and Garden, Sports, weather

The stores are starting to put out all of the items that are needed for our spring work and our summer fun in the sun. The patio furniture, garden supplies, lawn mowers, flip flops and pool accessories are lining the shelves just begging us, the consumers, to start digging in our wallets and dishing out the bucks on all of things that we have become famous for buying this time of the year.

My neighbors are getting anxious just waiting for this warm weather that we have been experiencing this winter, to get just a bit warmer and they can start getting their pool supplies in order and ready for all the water activities that having a backyard pool can bring to friends and family members. I’m so glad that I’m on good terms with both neighbors on both sides of my place and that I have an open invite to go over and enjoy a dip in either one of their pools, or a whole afternoon if I please to. They get to deal with all of the various pool supply issues while I just get to enjoy the feel of the nice clean water that they are so careful to get with all of the pool filters and pool chemicals that they have to buy each year.

While I in return turn them on to all the goodies that I grow in my wonderful vegetable garden in my back yard. So it works out very well for all concerned.

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Visable Address Plaques Needed

Posted on 12th February 2012 in Home and Garden, Opinion, Shopping, Technology/Gadgets

The new mailbox that we just ordered will certainly have our address that is easily readable on it, but it occurred to me that our house does not have any of it’s numbers posted anywhere on it. In our childhood home, we had our house numbers visable on an address plaque, which was clearly mounted on the wall right beside our front door. At night the numbers were illuminated by our front porch light, which we left on most nights anyway since electricity wasn’t so totally over the top and crazy expensive back then like it is now,  it wasn’t a big deal to leave the porch light on since there were people always coming and going 24/7 back then.

The majority of the houses now a days along our road do have address plaques, so I wonder why the former owners of our house never got around to putting up one? I think it adds a nice touch to any house, to have the house numbers proudly displayed by the door. Besides I think it can also be an important safety issue. Not all the residential mailboxes have the numbers clearly visible at the road. If you have address signs somewhere else on the property, emergency response vehicles will have a better chance at finding your house to help.

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