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Waiting for blooms

May 25, 2008 by Tricia

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Geranium Johnson's Blue

My garden is at the awkward stage that comes every year around this time.

The tulips are still in bloom, but they are aging and will soon be gone. The roses are in bud but haven’t flowered yet. The clematis, peonies, Rhododendron, and Johnson’s Blue Geranium (above) are also in bud ….

But I’m waiting for blooms.

Don’t get me wrong. The garden looks lovely. However, after the long cold very snowy winter we had this year I’m longing for those bursts of color in the garden that I so enjoy.

I’m thankful that I have so many pictures to look at as I wait to see these plants burst with new blossoms.

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Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Toronto Tagged With: awkward stage, bloom, blooms, blossoms, Blue, bud, color, garden, geranium, Green Thumb Sunday, GTS, longing, peonies, plant, Rhododendron, roses, snowy, snowy winter, tulips, waiting

Shop for the best deals at Shopping.com UK

May 25, 2008 by Tricia

I don’t do a lot of shopping online, but when I do it’s because I’m either looking for a hard to find item, something I can’t easily buy at a retail store or something that’s out of stock locally and of course, I’m looking for the best price I can find.

One of the sites that I visit when I’m looking for the best deal I can get is Shopping.com. You can search for just about anything on the site – clothing, shoes, handbags, jewellery, furniture, garden products, computers, cameras and many more items.

Shopping.com has product listings from thousands of online retailers. You can use the site to shop and compare prices and then once you find the best deal your taken directly to the online retailer’s website. I love it. This site saves a lot of time.

I know that a number of my regular readers are from the UK so I’m happy to let you know that there’s a United Kingdom branch of Shopping.com. Perhaps you already knew about it, but if you didn’t, visit the site and start shopping for some deals.

Saving money is always a good thing!

Filed Under: Decor, Fashion, Gifts, Home and Garden, Jeweller/Jewellery, Shopping Tagged With: best deals, cameras, clothing, clothing shoes, Computers, deal, furniture, garden, handbags, jewellery, listings from thousands, online, online retailer, online retailers, price, Product, purses, retail store, save money, saving money, shoes, shop, Shopping, shopping deals, stock, United Kingdom, visit

May sure has been cold!

May 25, 2008 by Tricia

It’s nice to finally have a nice weekend. It’s been such a cold month of May! Can you believe that April had more warm days than May has so far – well at least here in Toronto that’s the case.

I think last year was like this too. A nice April with the days getting increasingly warmer and then a cold May. You’d think that once the snow melts it would steadily get warmer and warmer each month, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

It does look like it’s going to get warmer though. Saturday here was pleasant. Not warm, but better than it has been most of the month and today is supposed to be even warmer. I think it’s going to get up to 22 C (72 F) and if it does I think it will officially be the warmest day of the month so far!

I’ll be busy today. I’ve got to do some gardening – planting veggies and annual flowers; and I’ve also got to go grocery shopping. I’m not sure what else is in store for us, but it will be a day to get some things done around the house.

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Toronto Tagged With: annual flowers, April, cucumber, groceries, grocery shopping, house, May, month, peppers, plant vegetables, planting flowers, Saturday, tomato, Toronto, warmest, weekend

Buy and sell Panama real estate at Encuentra24

May 25, 2008 by Tricia

Have you ever thought of living in an exotic local? Sure we all dream about living on an island or perhaps somewhere in South America, but few of us act on those dreams. Why?

I say why not? It’s a global world, there are several jobs that can be done from home – a home located anywhere in the world.

If you’ve ever thought of moving to Panama or perhaps you might be moving there due to your current job you might want to visit Encuentra24. It’s the leading Panama real estate listing service provider in Panama.

Features of the site include a large database of properties both for sale and for rent as well as images of most of the properties.

Perhaps you are in Panama right now and would like to sell or rent your property? Just visit Encuentra24, register and list your property. It’s that easy. Your ad will be seen by up to 800,000 prospective buyers and renters.

Along with being the largest Real Estate in Panama website, you’ll also find a variety of classified listings at Encuentra24. You can buy or sell cars and vehicles, find or list jobs, buy or sell items or find trade services to do work on your property.

I tried searching for properties on the site and I found the site easy to use. I was also pleased with the number of listing and their quality. The ones I found included pictures and even video of the properties.

If you are looking for property in Panama do check out the Real Estate Tips article. The article discusses how to buy real estate in Panama, discusses Panama real estate taxes, and among other great tips you’ll also learn which areas are the best areas to buy property in Panama.

I’m fairly happy here in Toronto, but sometimes during our long winters I dream about living in a place without snow. Who knows, maybe even I’ll move to a place like Panama someday. Hey, these days my job is on the internet – why not?

Filed Under: Culture, Home and Lifestyle, Real Estate, Services Tagged With: article, cars, classified listings, database, dreams, Encuentra, encuentra24, global world, images, Job, jobs, largest real estate, Panama, panama real estate, property, property in panama, prospective buyers, real estate in panama, real estate listing, real estate listing service, real estate taxes, real estate tips, Rent, south america, tips, Video, visit

Best Google Adsense day so far!

May 24, 2008 by Tricia

In an earlier post I mentioned that I’d been working on my main website for the last couple of days. Well … it’s a pure HTML based website and it’s huge so any time I want to make a change to the site I have to go through each and every page (if it’s a site wide change, that is). It takes forever, but I think the work that I just spent a couple of days doing is going to pay off big time.

Along with adding a new Privacy policy page as per the new Google Adsense TOS, I decided to implement some of the things I learned through the Adsense Secrets e-book that I purchased in late April.

I wrote a post about getting the Adsense Secrets 4.0 ebook on April 25th – I guess you can consider this an update almost exactly a month later.

I can now tell you that the e-book that I purchased for the low price of $9.95 has paid for itself several times over in the last two weeks or so.

If you are a regular reader of this site or any of my other blogs you’ve probably noticed that I’ve been playing with my Adsense placements as well as trying out a few other affiliate programs like Chitika.

Well my tinkering has paid off!

In the last two weeks I’ve doubled the income I was earning on my blogs through Adsense and by adding Chitika to some of my sites I’ve added a new great source of income.

Now for the big news.

Yesterday evening I started uploaded the pages of my HTML website that I’d been working on. I’d updated the Google Adsense code, changed the colors of the ads slightly and added two more Adsense blocks to each page of that site. I guess you could say that the new ad code and the updated Adsense placements have been up and running on that site for about 24 hours now.

Just those few little changes to the site – things I learned by reading the Adsense Secrets e-book – have more than tripled my income on that one website. In one day!

I can’t wait to see how much I earn on that site next week. I mean, it’s a long weekend in the US so I’m sure site visits and ad impressions are down a little bit …

I’m so excited. Doubled my income on my blogs and at least tripled my income on my very large website. What’s next? I can’t wait to find out.

If you use Adsense on your website or if you’ve been thinking of using it I strongly recommend that you get the Adsense Secrets E-book. Look what I was able to do in just a month (would have been earlier if I’d started tinkering right away).

I would also look into Chitika as well. They’ve just implemented a new premium ad system that higher eCPM than any of their other products. Actually I believe they are implementing some of the premium features into their other products as well so it’s possible that all of their products will have an increase in eCPM now.

I’ve been with Chitika for a couple of years but I never really earned much so I took it off my blogs about a year ago. At the beginning of the month I decided to give it another try and I can tell you that it’s already my third highest affiliate earner. Kontera and Glam are pretty much tied for second place.

Unless your totally opposed to ads on your blogs or websites it’s worth trying some of these programs. Tinker with ad placement and the colors of the ads themselves and see what works best. Oh and check out that ebook that made all the difference for me!

Filed Under: Affiliates, Internet, Make Money, Money, The Blogisphere, Web and Technology, Web Design, Wordpress Tagged With: adsense, adsense ads, Adsense Secrets, affiliate, affiliate programs, blogs, Chitika, code, couple of days, double income on blogs, doubled, doubled earnings, e book, ebook, eCPM, google, google adsense, great source, highest earnings, html website, impressions, income, Internet, kontera, new ads, placements, premium, resource, Technology, tinkered, TOS, tripled, tripled income on website, web, yesterday evening

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