Dr Copa Scrip for Success

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.

It just amazes me how many spices we seem to be in need of these days for the variety of recipes that are being made for today’s families. Our kitchen spice racks are overflowing with so many spices that we have now decided to go through them all and throw away the old and unneeded ones that are just taking up valuable space in current spice rack that just wasn’t made to hold all that many bottles of spices.

We would buy a new, bigger wall spice rack but this one was made by my late-brother in his shop class back in the 80′s and it means so much to the both of us that we wouldn’t dare consider replacing it, ever. So this year’s spring cleaning will include a lot of the kitchen stuff and area, not something that gets done often around here.

It seems that whitehall address plaques are all the new rage around the surrounding neighborhoods around here. This local effort started happening a few years ago when an elderly couple both lost their lives in a house fire that most likely could have been saved if they had only had one of the residential address plaques that are easy to locate and read. The emergency personal had a difficult time finding the exact house, which delayed them and made the whole situation a worse nightmare than any of us would have liked to experience.

Now a days there are so many options that make having personalized address plaques a much easier task than in previous years. And when you consider how important it is to have your address visible we all need to take a second look and make sure that this doesn’t happen to anyone else, anywhere.

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.

I was amazed the first time I saw a USB flash drive.  My kids call them “thumb drives.”  The first one we bought didn’t have much memory (I think it was 128) and was really expensive, but it was a convenient way to move files from one place to another.  The next one we bought was four times the storage size (512), but the same big price.  A couple of months ago we found a USB flash drive for sale that was a the same price as the other ones we had bought a couple of years ago, but it had  whopping 8GB storage!  It’s incredible how technology advances so fast!