i hope you had the chance to go outside and look at the huge moon last night. It was so awesome! I tried to get a picture with my digital camera, but it does not do well in the dark without a tripod. This photo was taken about 9:30 at night – it was bright white all night long!
This guest post from Lenny Mcknight
From time to time in the winter we all need to leave our homes. But, we often forget that we may not be able to return for awhile due to things such as the car breaking down, a blizzard causing the roads to home to be inpassable, or any emergency that can cause a significant delay in our return. You need to think about a few things before embarking on any journey away from the house at any time but especially in winter. Make sure that you’ve set the thermostat a bit lower, but not low enough to cause your pipes to freeze. If your pipes are close to the ground surface, just leave a hose on at a slow trickle which keeps water moving in those pipes. Be sure that lights are on inside and outside you home to ward off anyon! e who may be up to no good. Don’t forget to leave extra food and water out for your pets and bring them in while you’re gone. Don’t leave them outside to starve or freeze to death. Coming home to a messy house is a much better alternative than to come home to sick or dead animals. When you’ve checked everything, just prior to getting into your car, make sure that you’ve set your home alarm by Home alarm systems. You’ll be less stressed now while out.
My kitchen is so small and I get so frustrated trying to cook, that I have decided to make changes. I am looking at the enclume pot racks that I can buy online and give my wonderful pots a place to hang and be accessible to me while I am cooking.
An enclume pot rack makes my favorite pots within arm’s reach instead of having to get down on my knees and reach into a deep dark cabinet cluttered with all the different pots and lids that are jumbled on the shelf. I really dislike kitchen cabinets – they are not made to be user friendly at all.
After looking at all the enclume potracks on their web site, this is the one that I want to order. See how it has a nice shelf for me to have all my cookbooks handy? This is the perfect design for my needs! Finally, someone has made user friendly ways to store the essential and most frequently used things in my kitchen.
I love to sit outside on the deck and the winter months leave me yearning for my deck time. I’ve been thinking about getting a fire pit or outdoor fireplace of some sort with Outdoor Gas Logs so I can still sit outside, even in the cold. In a lot of ways it seems like a luxury, but then again, you have to pamper yourself and soothe the inner beast somehow. Gazing into a fireplace is a great way for me to unwind and meditate.
Not knowing much about fire pits and outdoor fires, I read the Gas Log FAQs on Hansen Wholesale’s web site. This is my favorite wish list type of web site. They have such a wonderful selection of
Gas Logs that I love to shop the different styles and dream of having them in my house. Or on my deck.
The R. H. Peterson Real Fyre Gas Logs are marvelous. I can’t make up my mind which of the over 40 styles of logs will be best for my fireplace. Part of me wants a traditional split oak log arrangement and then my inner poet wants the beach driftwood effect.
I had never heard of rain chains before I went to the local Home and Garden show last month at the armory. There was a landscaping display by a vendor who was selling a wide variety of rain gutter chains and he had them set up so you could see how they actually work.
I really liked the looks of the copper rain chains, and was thinking about replacing our gutter downspouts with them. Our downspouts are old and beat up – they really are an eyesore! I think that replacing them with a pretty rain chain would really dress up the house!