My next door neighbor came over today and was bragging about his new garage flooring and cabinets that he had installed a couple of weeks ago. Well, of course I had to go over to check it out! When I got over to his place and into his garage, I thought I’d died and gone to heaven! His garage looked like a dream come true! His floor was beautiful, he had brand new cabinets and the greatest storage organizers you can imagine! His garage was so great that I didn’t want to come home to my own garage! I’ve been working hard at fixing up my garage as best as I can with my limited resources, but his was very enviable to say the least!
I asked him where he got his garage floor and cabinets and organizers, and he told me that he got them from a place that he found from the premiergarage.com website. So I’ve been spending the last several minutes on their website, looking at the different floor finishes and types, and trying to figure out which one I would like the best for my garage. I’m going to contact the company for more information next week.
I got up early this morning to stuff the stockings and start breakfast for my wife and family. It’s unusual for her to sleep this late any morning; I’m surprised that isn’t awake yet! I’m looking forward to watching her open her Christmas gift this morning; I bought her exactly what she told me that she wanted. I bought her a couple of miniature buildings of our town made by company BrandyWine. They are similar in nature to the Cat’s Meow Village pieces that she had collected from the town that we used to live in. When we moved here she tried to find Cat’s Meow pieces of our new town, but had no luck finding them anywhere.
One day she was at a friend’s house and saw what looked like Cat’s Meow pieces and asked her friend where she bought them. So she was told where to get them, and that is how it came to be! We’ve been told since then that Cat’s Meow had gone out of business, but was trying to get started back up again. It will be interesting to see if they can, and do start up again. I hope so, because my wife really enjoyed collecting them and would like to have a collection of our new town!
I have to say that I really marvel at all of the beautiful mailboxes that I see when I drive around this area of the country. Sure, there are certainly the fair share of old, beat up boxes, but there are a lot of really nice mail boxes in front of the nicer houses in the area.
When we moved into this house, the mailbox in front of the house was literally hanging down off the side of the post. We put up a new inexpensive one for the time being, so we could get our mail, but my wife has been hinting from the very beginning that she would like to get a nice new mail box as soon as we can afford to spiff the place up a little bit.
I’m hoping that this spring we can put in a new one; I’ve told my wife to take a look at the mailboxixchange.com website and see which one she thinks she would like the best. They have a large assortment of really nice ones! We’ve tried looking in the local stores and can’t find hardly anything, so I was pleased when I found this website!
This morning my wife and I were watching the morning news, waiting for a weather report. We wanted to go out grocery shopping and weren’t sure which car to take. We saw that New England is getting buried in snow again. Thank goodness we don’t live there anymore! We certainly don’t miss that at all! My wife remarked that today is the first day of winter, and therefore days will be getting longer now! I’m glad that we’ll be seeing more daylight; it’s a real drag to have so many dark hours! We end up driving in the dark way too much during the winter! Although I have to admit that it is nice to see how many folks decorate their homes with Holiday decorations to brighten up the night! So anyway, happy first day of winter! I hope it is a mild one for us here.
My wife has been interested and very actively involved in training our dogs from an early age. She got her first puppy when she was in her early 20’s and she took it to a place that taught her how to train it. She (and the puppy) learned very well, and she has applied what she has learned to every dog she has owned since that time. She truly believes that our pets are family members, and she makes sure that they are cared for as well as any human in the house. That being said, she won’t feed them people food (except cheese.) When we go away on vacation she is always reluctant to board our pets, and tries to find someone to pet sit for us. Having a caring pet sitter is always her first choice; she says it is less traumatic for the pets when we go away.
So when her girl friend Tanya from San Diego called us last week and said she was coming into town for the holidays and was going to stop in for a visit, the conversation naturally turned to what was she going to do with her pets? My wife told Tanya that she would look up a San Diego pet sitting service on the Internet and let her know what she could find. She called her back this afternoon and suggested that she look at the expertdogtrainingsd.com website and consider using their services. They offer expert dog training for adult dogs as well as puppies, dog walking, and pet sitting in her area.
