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Exclusive deals and savings with Home Depots Garden Club Newsletter

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I’ll bet that some of the people that read this blog are gardeners? Am I right? Or perhaps you might not call yourself a gardener but you do have houseplants, and perhaps a few potted plants on your balcony, patio or in your yard?

Ok, well then, perhaps you might be interested in signing up for Home Depots Garden club Newsletter?

When you sign up you’ll have access to exclusive offers and coupon deals. I love a deal so that alone makes the Garden Club Newsletter sound pretty good to me, but wait there’s more …

Sign up for the newsletter and you’ll also get information about Gardening news, regional gardening reports, gardening tips and a lot more.

I haven’t received a newsletter yet, but I’m pretty sure that the Garden Club Newsletter will contain exclusives and deals not just on plants and supplies related to garden plants but probably on equipment used in and around the garden and yard. So, even if you aren’t a gardener you might still be interested in the newsletter because of the deals that you might get on lawn and yard related equipment.

Sign up now if you’re interested!





Our neighbors humorous voice

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Oh dear!

I was about to go outside since my husband is kindly watering the flowerbeds at the front of our house, but he has a few of our neighbors circling around him.

Our neighbors are really nice, but one of the guys that’s out there now is the kind that if you start talking to him he’ll never leave. Somewhat like my husband!

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I love this guys voice and laugh too.

Have you ever watched the animated series “American Dad”? It’s on on Sunday evenings. Well, this guy talks and laughs just like roger the alien on American dad. He’s a really nice guy, but every time I’m around him I think about roger the alien and I’m sure I’m smirking at him as he talks, or worse laughs!

Sometimes I have to go in the house, or to another room just to let the laughter out.

We’ll be refinishing our basement soon

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I must be in a mood to redecorate. We should start refinishing our basement some time in the next month or so and I’ve got to find some furniture for what will be a rec room of a substantial size.

We do have a sectional couch that we plan to use in the basement but we need a bit more furniture to go with it. I’ve been browsing online and looking at various sites that sell indoor furniture and I really like some of the north carolina furniture at this store. It looks like it’s well made and I really like some of the styles.

Obviously we have to get the basement finished before I’ll really decide what kind of furnishings I want down there, but it doesn’t hurt to do a little window shopping ahead of time does it?

Getting out the Patio furniture

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Now that Spring is almost over, and summer’s just around the corner the warm weather had definitely arrived, we’ve been getting our garden and patio ready for summer entertaining.

Chris put together most of our patio furniture about two weeks ago. We take it apart each fall so that we can store it. When you live in a cool climate you can’t just leave it out or it’ll rust. I think he still has three of our bar stool like swivel chairs to put back together.

The only thing we haven’t put out yet is the teak outdoor furniture. We have a beautiful handcrafted table that’s made of recovered teak. It looks like it was made out of fallen logs or teak tree stumps. It’s beautiful and extremely heavy. Teak is a heavy wood. We keep it in our enclose porch through the winter.

Now, I know that teak is pretty much resistant to all forms of bug infestation, but the sun can bleach the wood. So each year we lightly sand the wood and then put a couple of coats of teak oil on the table. It looks gorgeous when it’s been freshly oiled, and when it gets wet the color of the wood gets richer and multiple shades of red wood to blond wood color seems to show across the top of the table.

Do any of you have teak outdoor furniture?

Flame wars and trolls

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Wow, I’ve been talking about my other websites this week, and the mailing lists I run and I must say sometimes it’s quite amusing.

A little flame war broke out on one of my lists earlier today and I have a feeling that I might now have gained myself either a persistent troll or worse a cyber stalker out of it. It all depends on the control measures that I just took on the list as to how things go. You see, as the list owner and administrator I had to step in to put out the flames and the troll that caused the trouble didn’t like that one bit.

The person subscribed to the list with a free email after I put his subscribed email on “no post” status, and sent a semi threatening note to the list stating in it “We’ll be watching you”. With the you being me of course. I think this person needs to get sent on one of those Alaskan cruises and end up not being able to get back on the boat once it reaches it’s destination.

Hopefully nothing much comes of this. I just thought I should warn you that it might flow into the blog. Hopefully any of this creaton’s comments get moderated by Akismet before they get on the blog.

At this point I’m finding the situation mildly amusing in that this person thinks their taunts can get to me. Believe me, I’ve seen better! It could however spill over into something much more serious, and that would not be amusing at all. So my guard is up, I’m watching my email, lists, and sites carefully for any signs of attack and we’ll just have to see how this goes.

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