Jerry Loggins

The trainer of this dog deserves a lot of credit!  This is a fantastic act!

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 I have to say that my wife’s favorite time of year is Christmas.  She seems to be planning for Christmas all year long.  She loves to make ornaments as gifts for her friends and relatives to put on their Christmas Trees.  Some years she will knit a lot of ornaments, some years they are crochet, sometimes she crafts them out of beads, or empty paper towel tubes.  One year she made some little fairies out of artificial poinsettia flowers and pipe cleaners to put on the trees.  Another year she painted burnt out light bulbs and made them look like beautiful Victorian ornaments.  And yet another she painted frozen orange juice lids to look like snowman faces! 

My wife never ceases to amaze me with her creativity.  She has made so many ornaments for our own house that we have had to put up three Artificial Christmas Trees in our own house just to display all of the ornaments she has made!  And of course, we have to have one that also has ornaments that were given to us by other people, or that we bought because we liked them ourselves.

Even so, we seem to be having trouble finding enough space for all of the ornaments.  So we’ve started hanging them on wreaths and garlands that we use to decorate around the house.

And in preparation for future Christmases, we do a lot of bargain shopping in January to pick up Christmas clearance items.  Last January we got a great price on several White Christmas Trees that were on clearance.  We are thinking about putting them up on the front porch and decorating them with weatherproof ornaments.  She’s thinking about ways to create those weather proof ornaments out of recycled materials, such as colorful bottle caps and soda can pop tops.

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There is a big push going on right now between, State Farm, Progressive, Geico, Allstate and Nationwide Insurance. The TV is flooded by their wacky and unusual commercials for home, auto and life insurance. Geico almost always gets me going, but some of them are totally off the wall! Let the insurance wars begin…..

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Contribution by Odis Chan

Ellen is my absolute favorite talk show host. She is hilarious and very energetic. I’m shocked at how she can get wonderful talent on her show almost every day. One of my favorite episodes is where she had some of the stars from Twilight come on and they talked about the release of the latest film. She comes up with the wittiest things to say to the stars and even they are laughing the entire time. I’m usually not home when the show is on but occasionally I’ll get home early and flip and enjoy the cable tv dealI just got to at least catch a small part of it. She’s always dancing or doing something crazy with the talent and she doesn’t seem like she’s afraid to try anything. She recently showed off her dancing skills when she did a special show about the ‘So You Think You Can Dance‘ competition. I must say she has better skills than I thought she had when it comes to dancing but I think she should stick to being a talk show host instead of a contestant. I’m not sure if she writes her own material because it’s so fresh and funny every day but to say what she does at a moment’s notice I suppose she just has to be that clever. I wish I had stage presence like Ellen but I can stick to watching.

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I do enjoy watching The Comedy Channel. Most of the time they have some really good shows on. A good laugh is always good for the soul. Last night I was channel surfing and came across the comedian Sinbad’s newest gig and it was great. He has been gone for a while and is just coming back and doing a good job at it I’d say.

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I’ve never met anyone with a greener thumb than my own mother. I never really paid that much attention to the house and the yard that we grew up in back then. I mean I knew that we had a nice yard and that the neighbors were always complimenting her on her landscaping ideas and her green thumb, but it was still just a yard to a kid like me that always had to be moving and on the go, usually on my bicycle back then.

We had two very nice outdoor planters at the end of the front walk way that my mother always managed to have something colorful and alive growing in them all year round. I’ve never seen another outddor planter that looks remotely close to them and my mother doesn’t remember where she got them or what even happened to them after we all grew up and left home. My folks were back on their own in a large empty house that they eventually sold and moved across town and down sized a bit.

My mother still likes her outside work, but she has a hard time with the extreme heat that we have all been experiencing this summer. She has focused more on the inside of the house this year rather than the yard and the gardens. She found some nice indoor planters on the Internet that she has placed in various locations around the place and it looks real good. Everything is blooming and it helps the house smell real good. Plants are a good healthy thing to have in your home. 

I didn’t get any part of my mother’s green thumb. I have jut the one indoor planter that I received as a Christmas gift years ago.  I’ve tried to grow things in and have long since given up and just use it for an ash tray for visiting smokers that end up in the garage getting their nicotine fix on.

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One of the reasons that my wife and I enjoy going to trade shows is because we get some really good and creative ideas on how to solve some problems and some great ideas on things like landscaping and decorating.

Last spring when we went to the home and garden show we saw several displays using rain chains as part of the landscaping.  My wife was especially fond of the different garden rain chains that she saw – she especially liked the ones that looked like water was coming out of a watering can.

I liked the gutter rain chain and copper rain chain corner leaderhead that I saw.  I thought that they were great solutions for a couple of the problem drainage areas we have on our roof.

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I was watching an interesting television show about counterfeiting.  Not counterfeiting money, but counterfeiting brand name fashion designs.  I can’t remember the famous names, except for Gucci, but the show made some interesting points about the hidden dangers of counterfeit goods.  Some of the counterfeit goods contain harmful materials in them!  I wonder how many people have bought counterfeit goods and ended up getting sick from them.

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I am hearing rumors that another high school reunion is in the makes. I have only attended one of my reunions and really don’t see the need to keep going back time and time again. But one of my closest friends, from school, is really excited about this next one and is insisting that I go with him. He is on the quiet side and doesn’t want to have to sit alone and by himself all night. I can understand that.

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