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My sister-in-law called today and asked my wife if we already had one of those new Keurig coffee machines or not. She replied that we did not have one yet, but were interested in finding a good deal on one because her parents are staying with us for a couple of weeks and her father really likes the machine that they have at home. Much to my surprise, she told my wife that she was going to go ahead and order one for us to be picked up at Wal-Mart through their site-to-store service. She’ll pay the tab, all we have to do is go pick it up! That’s really exciting news because it is not very often that anyone in either of our families do anything that nice for us. I’m looking forward to trying it out! I wonder how fast we can go pick it up!

My wife has been talking about buying one of those fake rocks that are hollow inside to put it over the top of the well pipe. When we first moved into the house she was thinking that she would like to buy an ornamental Dutch Windmill to put over the well, but she has searched for years in vain to find the one she would like to have. I suggested that we buy one of the ornamental wishing well houses to put over it, but she really wanted to do something a little bit different than that – many of our neighbors have that cute little wishing well disguising their wells.

Meanwhile we’ve been trying to decide which kind of fence we want to install between our house and our “bad” neighbor. Unfortunately from what we understand the wooden privacy fences have to be installed with the good looking side facing the neighbor, so we are now looking at using bamboo poles to line the inside part of the fence so that even the inside part of the fence will be nice looking. Maybe we can find a bamboo fence that looks nice from both sides. Although thinking about it, maybe we should just plant some bamboo along the property line and just let it fill in naturally. What do you think?

Lately I’ve noticed that my wife has been buying a lot of small items that work with built in solar panels. For the past several years we’ve been buying and installing solar powered landscape lighting. Since money is tight we’ve only been able to do a little bit at a time, but slowly we’ve been able to light the way from the driveway’s parking areas along the walking path to the various doors that are used in the house.

More recently she has bought some lights that are mounted on the side of the house that are solar charged and motion detected, and she has had me install them beside all of the entrance doors. At first I was quite annoyed with her for spending the money on something that I thought was unnecessary, but since then there have been a number of times that I’ve gotten home after dark and found myself really glad that when I got close to the door the lights came on so I could see the door knob clearly enough to be able to find my house keys, unlock the door, and let myself in. When she offered one of those lights to me to install on the wall of the new shop building I told her that I wouldn’t need it, but now that I’ve seen what a great job it does I think I’ll take her up on the offer.

I finally got a price to put the exhaust on the van from a dealership – it almost scared me to death – almost $800!  I went to buy the exhaust for myself at the parts store and it was $460.  So I went online to a parts store that I buy parts from, not knowing if they sell exhaust or not and purchased the whole exhaust shipped right to me for half.  I’ll be installing it myself next week and saving a butt load of cash this way.

It is amazing that we still have several of the gifts cards that we received as presents for last Christmas, so in order to go ahead and use them we have been doing a search online for various items that we have a need for. The first on the list is a very stylish black and oak dining set that we have been eyeballing for some time now and have decided to just go ahead and purchase it now. The wife has been complaining about needing bedspreads for daybeds for a few years now and has found a good deal on them so they are going to be ordered here real soon.

I have ordered (on the sly) some nice beach themed picture frames that I will hold onto to use as a nice gift for her on   Mother’s Day, which actually isn’t all that far off from now considering it is now the the middle of April and this year Mother’s Day comes around the middle of May. Hard to believe how fast this year has been flying by, it will be Christmas all over again very very soon, sooner than anyone of us would like to even think about.