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Fire pits and old fashioned fun

Filed Under: Entertainment and Fun, Food, Friends and/or family, General Life, Home and Garden, Relationships, Shopping by Paige — Leave a comment
April 19, 2012

Seems as if fire pits are all the rage lately. My sister was telling me that she was looking at some patio fire pits at FirePits.com to get some ideas about decorating her little garden oasis in the back yard.

I think that the fire pits are cute, and when I think of the memories of my own childhood of roasting marshmallows around a camp fire, I think about how cool it would be to have a fire pit to roast marshmallows on again. But then reality hits me and I realize that as awesome as it would look, my “real” family would probably never use it; my “real” family is a bunch of technogeeks that don’t like going outside for any reason at all. I love my family, truly I do, but I sometimes wish that we could have some “old fashioned” family fun together.

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Planning for spring garden

Filed Under: General Life, Home and Garden, Shopping by Paige — 1 Comment
February 18, 2012

I like to buy several new perennial flowers every spring and fall to add to our garden.  I figure that way, over a period of time, we will have acquired a gorgeous garden without creating a hardship to our budget.

I also enjoy looking through the catalogs that come in the mail all of the time, they help me to plan what I might like to buy – they give a lot of helpful information about what types of plants do well in our area, and which plants are deer resistant (which is important.)  The local nurseries are opening for the season, I am looking forward to going there and picking through their selections, buying a few plants and bringing them home!

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Very beautiful rain chains

Filed Under: Computers and/or Internet, General Life, Home and Garden, Shopping by Paige — Leave a comment
February 15, 2012

Sometimes I think that I must have been a Japanese woman in a previous life. I am so drawn to the artful and graceful things that I see that are Japanese in origin. For example, in my mind’s eye I can picture a beautiful Japanese home with rain chains guiding the rain water down from the rooftop into water collection basins.

We have a set of wind chimes outside the window where I keep my computer, and every time they chime I get the sensation of walking through a Japanese garden that is behind a Japanese house. Again, I see water trickling down a rain chain, but this time it is part of a water feature in the garden.

My hubby has told me that we need to be thinking about replacing the down spouts of our rain gutters in the next year or two. I think I’m going to show him some pictures of chains rain on the Internet and see if he thinks maybe we’d like to replace the downspouts with them instead.

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