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Basement Wet & Nasty

Fix Wet Basement and have it waterproofed, these are my latest chores to be addressed, and ones that I have not looked forward to starting, but has now become necessary, I can only hope that I haven’t waited too long. When I can’t come up with someone that I know or am related to, to give my business to, it has become useful to use the Internet to find what you are looking for, which in this case it did provide me with a company with a website of B-dry.com that looks promising.

They have been in business since 1958, that is half of a decade, a good long time to be in business. An interesting tool is on their website, a tab labeled WET BASEMENT ANALYZER TOOL, which takes you to a page where you click on whatever your issue is and it tells you what could be the cause of your leaking basement might be, which I gave a try and it pretty much confirms what I believe to be the case in our wetness issues.

I have filled out the request for a Free Estimate and hope to hear from someone tomorrow, would like to go ahead and get this ball rolling.

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Arts and Crafts Online

We keep hoping that an arts and crafts store will open up here in town. We used to have a Ben Franklins but that closed down years ago so now we have to drive almost an hour to get to a store to buy the arts and crafts that we want and need. Walmart has some items but for the most part we get our art supplies from MisterArt.com which is a great place to get all kinds of arts and crafts supplies at some great prices. Thank goodness for the Internet once again.

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No Socks For Men and No Stockings For Women

What is going on here guys? I keep seeing men on TV that appear to not be wearing any socks and it just looks so gross. Are they really not wearing any socks or are they wearing see through knee high hose? A few months ago I was watching a TV show “Millionaire Match Maker” and I remember hearing the match maker tell one of the ladies in waiting to take her panty hose off because they are not in fashion any more. So I guess it is men and women that are changing what they wear on their feet and legs and I don’t like it one bit.

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Friends In The Military

Was checking the custom air force shirts selection at Rangerup.com today. I really, really, really like this site. Their motto: Not everyone’s war stories end in High School – was what caught my attention a while back while I was up late one night mindlessly surfing the Internet. I ended up Bookmarking the site and I come back to it every now and then to see what mind blowing stuff they are putting out there for us all.

With Christmas coming up I am looking for some ideas to mull around and I love their custom air force shirts selection. I have many friends in the military, a few in each of branches actually. When I stop and think about it I know more people that I originally thought that have and are putting their lives on the line for their family and our country and there are several that I buy Christmas presents for each year. I’m thinking I’ll be spending more time at RangerUp.com as Christmas gets nearer and nearer and nearer and nearer………..

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Beach Time in January

My BFF and I have agreed that we are going to look for north carolina beach house rentals for us to stay at in January when both of our kids, who are 16 now and will be 17 by the time January rolls around, will be out of school for the MLK holiday, which if I remember correctly is January 18 -21. The rates should be really good considering it will be in the middle of winter and of course we won’t be doing any swimming in the ocean. But there will be plenty of other fun things for us to do besides swimming. Hopefully we can find something that will have a hot tub that we all can enjoy if we feel the need for water.

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Dirty Money

Thought FOR THE DAY

I’m just passing this thought along …..

Have you ever wondered if the one dollar bills in your wallet were ever in a strippers’s G-string or possibly in some bums shoe?

If not, you’re wondering now.

Have a nice day .

 

oh-shit

(They say money is the dirtiest thing we handle)

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Mars and Venus

They say that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. I have not read that book but I get the concept.

Here’s a snapshot of the two scarecrows that I made last year. I made one of the boy scarecrows into a girl by adding lipstick and eyelashes with marker pens. Then I cut off the straw bow tie from around her neck and stuck it under her hat to make bangs.

So my ex husband came over and took a look at the curb to take a look at my handiwork. I thought I was pretty clever with my “gender change” techniques. He took one look at the two scarecrows and this is what he said, “Can’t you stick something down her shirt so she has boobs?”

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Do It All By Myself

It’s a well known fact that people are fixing up their homes rather than buying new ones. The fact that people can spend up to $20,000 on new kitchen cabinets just blows my mind considering how bad the economy still is. But there are people out there that are doing just that. Myself I am looking at a rta cabinet project. RTA stands for Ready To Assemble for those not familiar with some of the dyi terms. DYI stands for Do It Yourself.

I have a lot to research, and a lot to learn, but I enjoy working with my hands and learning new things and new tools, so it may take a bit longer than “normal” but I’ll get it done. And if I need some help or guidance along the way I have a few friends that I can turn to, but I really want to diabm, as much as possible. DIABM stands for Do It All By Myself.

 

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Blackberry Wine

The first year that we moved into the  house, a good buddy of mine brought a cutting of blackberry vine, it immediately got planted into the ground and has been thriving brilliantly ever since. The best part is that it is the variety of black berries that don’t have those horrible thorns all through out the vines. The past couple of years it has been producing the most wonderful berries that I now eagerly pick twice a week, eating them by the hand fulls along the way. I usually end up giving a good amount of them away to friends and neighbors and also freeze a large quantity for my own personal use and enjoyment.

In return for the original cutting that started all of this, my buddy is allowed to come at any time and pick his fill, in which he turns around and makes a great batch of wine out of them. And in the end, I end up with a couple of very nice tasting home made wine, from these delicious berries that come from my own back yard. How about that!

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Home Made, Make Shift Boarding Stairs For Dad

I’m sorry but I’m just not as knowledgeable about Boarding Stairs as my brothers are at this point. But good grief I can’t even remember the last time I was on a boat or even talked about a boat for that matter. When our father finally got so ill and was having a hard time getting around back in the last years of his life, we all tried to figure out how to afford or to make some make shift Boarding Stairs for him to use to get off and on the numerous boats that we all owned and used and kept in his boat house. The same boat house that he built way before any of us where even thought of. And we did manage to have one built and he used it for several years, it looked so stupid and it stood out like a sore thumb but not a single friend or family member cared one bit as long as it made life easier and more enjoyable for our dad.

He became a land owner early in his life, and his favorite property was the property that he built the log cabin on and was located right on the best water around for his needs and wants. The water is formerly called Buckneer’s Creek, but I can assure you that it in no way resembled a creek. It was perfect for swimming, boating, fishing, crabbing, tubing, canoeing, paddle boating, water skiing, jet skiing, water boarding and any and all other types of water fun you could come up with and it still is. Only thing wrong with the picture is that he isn’t in it any more, but we are so very lucky that we didn’t lose it when he passed on and that we still get to enjoy it year after year. We have a few pictures of the boat with those boarding stairs on it, it still looks awkward but at least you can see a smile on dad’s face there right along side it.