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The Importance of Mailboxes

January 8, 2012
by Monica

Commercial Mailboxes, Residential Mailboxes and Apartment Mailboxes have come a long way in the past few decades. It has come to the attention to the masses that having your mailbox display your last name and the street numbers on your mailbox and in plain sight for the emergency personnel to utilize is in your best interest.

There has been so many stories in the news about people seeking assistance from our police or fire departments that have not gotten the help that they needed because these emergency personnel can’t find their location due to the lack of necessary information available to them on our mailboxes.

If we rely on this people to come to our aid, it seems the least we could do is make it easier for them to find them and have our Mailboxes have the right information displayed for them to find us in our time of need. They have a good selection of mailboxes for us to choose from these days. Justcommercialmailboxes.com has a good amount of products to check out they even have Cluster Mailboxes there, if you have the need.

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Afternoon Tea

December 28, 2011
by Monica

For our next Red Hat Society meeting we are having a fun little outing. We made reservations at a little restaurant in a little town about an hour’s drive from here where they serve afternoon tea. I’ve never had a formal afternoon tea and I’m very much looking forward to the experience.

Of course we will be all decked out in our red and purple outfits, but some of us are using this occasion to dress up a little more fancy. I plan on wearing my mother’s pearl necklace and matching pearl bracelet. After all, this is a special occasion!

I have always hoped that Santa would bring me pearls for Christmas, but he’s always found other things to leave under my tree. I would really like a strand of pearls and will just keep dropping hints! Pearls are the extra touch of class and elegance to any outfit.

Here is a tip. If you ever need to test a pearl for whether it is real or fake, here is the best way. Gently bite the pearl with your front teeth. If it is very smooth, it is probably fake. A real pearl will be a little rough or gritty.

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Bulletin Boards

December 27, 2011
by Monica

This year my one daughter has been having me take her to the local library more than ever before, which is a good thing. I love going to the library. I love to read. I don’t really like checking out a book and having a 2 week time limit placed on me so I always go where they have several shelves filled with used books that are for sale for usually under $1 each. I load up and leave that place in such a good mood with my new found treasures.

Another thing I enjoy doing at the library is looking at all of the postings that they have on their “Community enclosed fabric bulletin boards” and looking at all of the pamphlets, brochures and other goodies that they always have on their enclosed bulletin boards to offer the community. There is such a variety of things there for us to take advantage of and the library is known for the best displayed and kept up to date enclosed cork bulletin boards . Like yesterday I noticed that they have a brochure to help people understand the medicare part d deal that so many people are having a hard time understanding and dealing with. Pretty soon we will be seeing all of the tax forms that most of will need come the end of January and before April 15th, 2012. Something to look forward to – NOT!

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Green Is Good

December 9, 2011
by Monica

Coming from a long family of farmers, I can really appreciate all the hype about going “Green” in any way, shape or form that we can manage. If everyone just pitched in we all good enjoy our Mother Earth for a long time to come. I come from a family that has always been aware of many ways to recycle and have done our best in keeping new trees growing and replanting what we can, when we can, amongst many other things.

I’m happy that I found a list of the best 10 green web site hosting companies that are really going the extra mile with an effort to be as Eco-friendly as possible at webhostinggeeks.com. I’m going to spend some time and check them out and see about switching to the one that I decide on. Host Gator states that they are wind powered which is way cool. Out of 5 stars they rate a 4 1/2 so that is a plus as well. So that is a start.

Oh and I found an interesting blog on that site as well that speaks of green web hosting and thought that I might pass it on here for my readers entitled The Emergence of Green Web Hosting. You only need to click on the title to bring it up.

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Littermaid Self Cleaning Litter Box

December 9, 2011
by Monica

When I heard about my brother’s problem about his house smelling bad because of the troubles he is having with his cat adapting to moving to his new house, I bought him one of those Littermaid self cleaning litter boxes, hoping that would help with the cat urine problem he said he is having.

I have one of those Littermaid self cleaning litter boxes, and I love it!  You have to use premium clumping kitty litter in it, which I use anyway.  There is a motion detector in the box that detects when the cat is in the box, and after ten minutes, the rake activates and sweeps the clumps into the covered container.  The only issue that I have with the litter box is the expense of the disposable trays.  The original intent of the manufacturer is to have you throw the tray away every time it is full.  That gets really expensive, really fast!  I have to empty the tray twice a week!  I have found that the plastic shopping bags that I get from Wal-Mart are the perfect size to line the trays.  So, I line the trays with a plastic shopping bag and when the tray is full, I tie the shopping bag closed and throw it away, line the tray again with a fresh bag, and put the tray back into the litter box.  That way one of the trays lasts for several months before it falls apart.

I found a cool website that sells furniture custom made to hide litter boxes.  I found one that I liked and bought it to hide our litter box in.  I love it!  When people come to visit us, they don’t even realize that we have a cat!  They don’t see or smell the litter box, and our cat is so shy that when strangers come to the house, he runs and hides under our bed.

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