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Starry Night Lights has a great selection of outdoor lighting

September 6, 2007 by Tricia

If you’ve been reading this blog for any time you’ve read how I’ve used various types of landscape lighting to enhance the look of my home, highlight plants and gently light my garden. I love siting in my garden at night. The outdoor lights aren’t very bright, but they light the garden just enough that I can see some of the plants and structure of the garden. It’s very peaceful and pretty.

If you’ve been thinking of installing outdoor lighting in your yard visit Starry Night Lights. They have a large selection of night sky friendly lighting from which you can choose.

You’ll find everything from metallic and ceramic wall scones, to wall lanterns, landscape lights, architectural lighting, light shades and even sign lights. These lights are designed to not only enhance the look of your home and property, but to reduce the effects of light pollution in the community.

You see that’s what I like about siting in my garden. The lights I use are bright enough to enhance the look of my yard, but not so bright that I can’t look up and see the night sky and if I’m lucky some stars as well.

That’s what light pollution is – when outdoor lighting used by homes, businesses and to light the city are so bright that they blot out the sky making it impossible to see the sky properly. You’ll actually find some great articles on the StarryNightLights.com website about light pollution and the billions of dollars that are wasted annually in the US just lighting up our cities and as a result the sky too.





Filed Under: Decor, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Photography, Recreation, Shopping, Tricia's Garden, Web and Technology Tagged With: architectural lighting, articles, ceramic wall scones, enhance look of home, garden lighting, home lighting, information, landscape lighting, landscape lights, light pollution, light pollution information, light shades, metallic, night sky, night sky friendly lighting, outdoor lighting, see stars, sign lights, sky view, Starry Night Lights, view sky, wall lanterns

Thinking about video and regular podcasts

September 6, 2007 by Tricia

I’ve been watching that new television show I-Caught again. I’ve watched three shows so far, and each time I watch it my head starts to buzz with ideas of things that I or my husband could do on the internet.

My latest idea revolves around my husband. As you might remember we purchased an HD video camera for him about a month and a half ago when I got my new digital SLR camera. The plan for his blog, Guitar Licks, has always been to include video guitar lessons. Now I’m expanding that thought.

I was thinking that maybe we could find a free podcast site to upload his videos to, but instead of just doing guitar lessons he could talk about various types of music and different types of guitars and equipment. Very niche obviously, but I’m pretty sure he’d enjoy doing the videos and he’s a fantastic musician with a lot of knowledge to share so those interested in watching his videos would get something out of it.

Another idea that I had involves podcasts or internet radio type shows. There’s a few bloggers that I know doing these regular weekly shows now and I think Chris would be very good at it. Perhaps I’d join him. Hmmm the Chris and Trish show?

Sure I know for the videos we could just upload to YouTube, but I think if we uploaded the video podcasts to a podcast site with a community built around it the content he’d create would be picked up easier and perhaps build a following.

Do any of you do video or regular podcasts? Which sites do you use? How about internet radio shows or weekly broadcast type sites?

BTW did any of you submit your three words to i-caught? I think that’s a great feature. We didn’t get around to it what with my family reunion keeping us busy but I hope to make a submission in a day or so.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Music, Recreation, Video, Web and Technology Tagged With: blog, blogger, broadcast, camera, Chris, community, Digital, guitar, husband, idea, Internet, internet radio, Music, musician, podcast, Television, Video, video podcast, watch, watching, Youtube

What keeps you coming back?

September 6, 2007 by Tricia

This may be a stupid question to ask, and I might even be asking for it, but here goes …

What do you like about this site?

I write a little about everything, but obviously there’s a few main topics or categories that I write about more than others. What topics do you like best when you come to visit my blog?

Since I talk about a variety of topics and I’m involved with a few different groups there are some people that only come to the site once or twice a week to read a particular type of post. Often the photo oriented posts like Wordless Wednesday, Photo Hunters or my own Green Thumb Sunday meme are read by those who tend to only visit for those posts. I have noticed that a lot of my regular readers seem to enjoy those posts as well.

I’ve also noticed that when I talk about food, perhaps a dinner that I’ve made, that a lot of my readers like to chime in and get involved in the discussion. I’ve also noticed that with other topics that I talk about frequently – my quirky life, my husband, health, gardening, WordPress, blogging and internet or tech related subjects different people respond via comments more often than others.

So what do you like about this site? Which topics keep you coming back?

I’m not planning on changing my writing style or the way I blog, but if there are a few topics that the majority of my readers really seem to enjoy more than others I might be able to find a way to write about them more often.

Filed Under: Blogging, Web and Technology Tagged With: blog, Blogging, comments, dinner, Food, garden, Gardening, Health Fitness and Beauty, husband, Internet, life, Meme, posts, return visits, topics, what is interesting, write, Writing

Enter the Cart Me Away contest to win a 5000 shopping spree

September 5, 2007 by Tricia

Who’s interested in entering a contest where you could win a $5000 shopping spree? I know I am!

Shop.com has a new version of their Cart Me Away contest. There’s even more luxurious prizes now than ever before.

If you enjoy shopping you’ll love this new contest which is said to be a fusion of Sex in the City and The Price is Right. Each week those who’ve registered for the contest will get to participate in a fantasy shopping experience.

There’ll be four different fantasy shopping story-lines, one for each week of the contest which began on September 2nd and ends on September 29th. Pick the right combination of products to match the fantasy shopping scenario and you’ll qualify to win the weekly $1000 prize and gain an entry for the $5,000 shopping spree grand prize.

You’ll get three chances daily to pick the perfect match of products to fit the shopping fantasy. New challenges are presented each day.

Along with the chance to win the $1000 weekly prize and or the $5000 grand prize, instant shop.com cash back offers will be given away each day.

Doesn’t this sound like a fun contest? There’s certainly a lot of chances to qualify for the great prizes too. What are you waiting for? Go enter the contest!

Filed Under: Contest, Cool stuff, Internet, Shopping, Web and Technology Tagged With: cash back, Contest, daily cash back offers, fun, grand prize, interesting, match, offer, price, Products, Sex in the City, Shopping, shopping fantasy, shopping spree, the price is right, weekly prizes, win, win 1000 dollars, win 5000 dollar shopping spree

Best Buys – product and service shopping comparisons and reviews

September 5, 2007 by Tricia

When you are thinking of purchasing an item do you try to do a little research before you decide which brand or model you’ll buy? What about when you are about to sign a contract for a service such as one for a mobile phone, credit card or even something like an online dating service?

I certainly try to take the time to read a few reviews and or compare products when I’m thinking of paying a few hundred to a few thousand dollars for something. I want the best product or best service that my money can buy. I’m sure you do too.

That’s why I like the Best Buys website. You can read reviews and compare prices for a variety of products ranging from appliances, audio, cameras, computers, electronics, games, gifts, movies, music, office products, software, telephones, televisions and several other items.

One thing that I found kind of interesting about the site was that when I decided to search for a specific item the search box listed matching or similar search terms as I typed. I didn’t even have to type out the full product name as it guessed almost immediately what I was about to search for – now that was cool.

I had actually gone there to do belated research on the Canon EOS 30D digital camera. As you know I already purchased my new digital SLR camera about a month and a half ago and on this rare occasion I didn’t do much research before hand. However, every time I go looking for product comparisons and reviews for the camera that I purchased I always discover good reviews. Best Buys has 9 reviews for my camera and almost all of them give the camera five out of five stars. I can’t tell you how pleased I am that I purchased a camera that others feel is a good product.

I’ll certainly be going back to doing research before I buy in the future though. I lucked out on my camera, but I’d hate to end up purchasing a lemon just because I didn’t compare a products features, pros,and cons before buying!

If you decide to visit the site you should take a look at Best Buys Comparison Reviews. You can read comparisons on this page of various services. For example it’s said that some of the best and most popular antivirus programs that you can purchase are McaFee and Norton Antivirus. Well at Bestbuys.com you can read a comparison of the two products and find out which product has the best computer security features, best performance and which has the best support as well as finding out which product bestbuys.com thinks is the best buy for your money.

Likewise you can compare services such as Blockbuster versus NetFlix, or if you want to get internet phone service you can compare Vonage with SunRocket and so on. You can compare all kinds of services such music cd clubs, online dating services, satellite TV services, high speed internet services and so on. I’m sure that some of these comparisons will be quick helpful.

Some of the reviews that I’ve just listed above, such as perhaps Blockbuster versus Netflix also has what Bestbuys.com calls “Fine Print Revealed” reviews where you can read information that marketers might not necessarily openly reveal to their clients prior to their signing up for the service. If you want to find out what’s behind the Blockbuster Total Access marketing campaign do visit the service comparison page.

The Fine Print Revealed reviews can sometimes be eye openers and they are worth visiting the site to read if you are interested in comparing particular services before you sign a service contract.

Hopefully bestbuys.com will continue to add more Fine Print Revealed articles to their site. Since I live in Canada a few of their comparison articles aren’t relevant as we don’t necessarily have the same service companies here in Canada as there are in the US. I’m not complaining of course, of the 15 direct comparison articles that I found 11 are services that I might use at some point.

Overall I really like this site and I’ve already bookmarked it. I’m certain I’ll visit Bestbuys.com the next time I’m thinking of making a substantial purchase. The site is very user friendly. You can use the search box at the top of the page to easily find a product or service to read reviews on or to compare features and prices, or you can click on any of the tabs at the top of each page to get to any of the major category sections of the site. Remember there’s over 40 million products and services listed on BestBuys.com!

BestBuys.com also has a weekly newsletter to which you might want to subscribe. The newsletter lists best buys, freebies, and contest information. In fact, speaking of contests, when you refer friends and they subscribe to the newsletter you’ll have a chance to win a monthly prize of $100. I know I’d like a chance to win $100 so if you’d like me to refer you to the newsletter just let me know.

Don’t forget to bookmark BestBuys.com so you can comparison shop before you buy!

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