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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!





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?

Lulu.com lets you publish and sell your digital content

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I know that many of the people who read my blog are creative and talented people.Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to publish and sell some of your creative content? Well, you can at Lulu.com. Lulu.com is an online self publishing website.

You can create an account at Lulu and start to easily create content such as books, CD’s, DVD’s, calendars, blog books, photo books and much more, that you can publish and sell with absolutely no upfront fees.

So get creative! Make that documentary that you’ve always wanted to make, or create your first CD of your bands music. Write a book, or an e-book. Whatever you want to do, you can do at Lulu.

Publish your digital content and when someone places an order Lulu handles the business end of the sale by publishing the content, delivering the item and the customer service needs of the client.

You create the content and come up with a fee for your product. You own the copyright and control the content. Lulu.com is just the company that helps you get your creative digital content to those who are interested in purchasing it. You’ll get 80% of whatever retail price you decide your content is worth. Lulu will send out checks at the end of each quarter with your share of the revenue.

If I sound excited about this product it’s because I really am. I’ve had so many people tell me over the last few months that I should be publishing some of my work and articles as an e-book. I’ve also had people telling me that I should do something with my photographs. Now I can do that simply and easily with Lulu! I am sooooo signing up!

I know from visiting many of your sites and having email and IM conversations with many of you that there really are a lot of talented people out there. Please, do take a look at Lulu.com and see if you don’t come to think of this as an opportunity to show the world your creative talents too.

Silly email from my other websites

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I have to laugh at some of the email questions I get for my websites. You may or may not know that I run two websites related to reptile care. Yes, I’m a lizard freak! Not only do I run two big websites, but I also run four mailing lists related to reptiles and their care that are associated with the websites.

I try to get people to join the mailing lists for several reason. 1. So that they can get other opinions other than my own, and 2. So that I don’t have to answer literally 1000 emails each day! Still, I get several emails each day regarding the care of various reptiles, or people write in from Florida telling me that they have wild iguanas eating their plants, or that they found a frog or small lizard in a plant they bought at a nursery.

One of the dumbest questions I received this week was from someone in Australia who wants to buy an Australian Water Dragon (lizard). They wanted to know where to buy one and if they can legally own one. Well, I know Australia has some pretty tough laws about their natural fauna, and they don’t import many exotic animals to be sold as pets either. However, I do not know all of the laws of a country on the other side of the world! LOL Pick up the phone and call your wild life service or whatever it’s called in Australia. Now, as dumb questions go, that one wasn’t all that dumb, but I make it clear on my site that I live in Canada so how the heck would I know the answer to her question.

In other reptile world news one of my close herp care friends is moving! He’s very well known in the reptile care field and he used to be just a short drive away from me so we could actually get together every now and then, but for some reason he’s moving to the Outer Banks in Carolina. I have no idea how long that drive would be from Ontario but I’m assuming it’s a pretty long drive. Oh well, guess we’ll have a nice place to visit if we go up there to see him sometime.

That’s the great thing about knowing people from all over the world. If you’re lucky you might have a place to stay when you travel, but at the very least you can get together with those people and they can perhaps show you around their city or their part of the world. That’s kind of cool.

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