Posted on November 17th, 2011 by Jerry under Computers and/or Internet, Entertainment and Fun, Home and garden, Technology and gadgets.
Saw this on Facebook today and it just cracked me up. Most of the time the photos that I see posted on Facebook have been pretty lame so it really felt good to chuckle out loud at this one. I swear I know a few people that would do something like this LOL!

Posted on November 16th, 2011 by Jerry under Entertainment and Fun, Friends/Family, Home and garden, Shopping, Technology and gadgets.
I do so enjoy the warmth of leather and wood around the house, but I have to admit that there is just something nice and clean about stainless steel that is a welcomed change of pace in certain areas in the house. Recently we have been looking at a nice blomus stainless steel firepit that I would like us to purchase for use outside. I do like spending time outside during the evenings and a nice firepit would help take some of the chill out of the air during those times. Now if I get a firepit I’ll certainly be needing a nice blomus stainless steel fireplace set to go along with it.
You see Blomus specializes in stainless steel products that are pleasant looking to the eye as well as being very affordable. My grandmother purchased a blomus stainless steel teaset a few years back that she is very happy with. One that she actually uses on special occasions with her special little lady friends. My grandmother belongs to several clubs and organizations so she entertain quite often, and she really enjoys those times spend with good friends that are in the same age group as she is and have the same interests and tastes.
Posted on November 16th, 2011 by Jerry under Business, Entertainment and Fun, Friends/Family, Home and garden, Life, Shopping, Technology and gadgets.
Do you use a satellite service like Direct TV, or a cable television service for your television service at home? There sure seems to be a lot of heavy competition in that area! There are so many different Direct TV Packages and Direct TV Deals that it is hard to resist the pull of ordering Direct TV Service! Especially if you are a sports fan!
There are so many sports channels on satellite television that it would be easy to watch sports twenty four hours a day! Almost all of my neighbors and relatives have satellite service. Apparently we live in an area that doesn’t have cable, so antenna and satellite are the only two options available right now. But even many of the people that I work with have the option to have either and they still opt for the satellite – they say that they have a lower rate and that they are very happy with the service.
Posted on November 14th, 2011 by Jerry under Business, Computers and/or Internet, Food, Green Issues, Home and garden, Money and Finances, Opinion, Weather Issues.
It really does my heart good to see that more people are turning to and relying on good old fashioned rain harvestings during these past few years of drought like conditions that we’ve been dealing with. Many people pay dearly for water services and some folks get theirs from their well, either way it takes money to get our much needed water supply to us that we depend on each and every day, while mother nature provides us water that just takes something like a rain barrel to collect to use.
My father used to always have a rain water barrel that he used for our small garden that we all worked so hard in year after year for our home grown fruits and vegetables that my mother loved cooking with. That made a big impression on us for years to come about rain harvesting.
I’m hearing that there are now more rain water barrels are being sold than ever before. Did you know you can find many rain barrels for sale right online at sites like simplyrainbarrels.com has to offer? They have a very large variety of sizes, colors and shapes as well as various price ranges. What I really like is that simplyrainbarrels.com accepts PayPal, I’ve put an end to my credit cards and rely on my PayPal account more and more for online purchases such as this.
Posted on November 8th, 2011 by Jerry under Business, Computers and/or Internet, Friends/Family, Home and garden, Life, Opinion, Shopping.
Sometimes I wonder if I made the right decision a few years ago when I turned down that promotion with the company. I have been wanting to be promoted for a long time, but I did not want to have to relocate to a different state. The promotion involved moving to New York. If I was still single, and in my twenties or thirties, it would have been a no-brainer – I would have jumped at the opportunity. I would have been on the Internet looking for apartments for rent in New York so fast it would have made your head spin!
But by the time I was offered the job, my wife had just been offered a terrific job here, and the kids were deeply involved in their school lives, with their activities and friends. My wife and I entertained the idea for a short while and even went up to New York for a week to look at New York real estate in the area that my job would be in. Seems that the New York housing market is one of the markets that never goes into a slump; everything we liked cost a lot more money than we felt we could manage. So I turned down the offer at the time, not wanted to uproot the entire family.
Now it seems that Jason is thinking about moving up there for a couple of years because he has received a job transfer offer from his office, with a very healthy raise in pay. He was telling me that he found a website NewYorkhousing.com and he is thinking about making a trip up to New York himself to see what he thinks of the area. I can understand the exciting draw of the Big Apple to a young single man, but my wife is not very happy to think that Jason would be that far away from home. She didn’t like it when he was away at college, and New York is even further away than he was when he was in school.