Thursday, September 2, 2010

Motorhome insurance

We've had so much fun going camping this year. It's nice to check out the places first if you can. This winter sometime we plan on visiting my husband's mom in Florida. One of the places we want to stop is Silver Spring's glass bottom boat ride. A lot of old movies were filmed there including "Creature from the Black Lagoon". The boats that you ride in have glass bottoms. There are all sorts of fish in the water. My husband says they used to give you bread to feed the fish. I hope it is still the same. As the date grows closer we will be shopping around for motorhome insurance hoping to get a deal on a six month policy. I'm getting excited about our trip just talking about it.

Up and down weather

This weather is so crazy 90 degrees this week and then dropping down into the 60's this weekend. My husband was working downtown building scaffolding at the new wing of the veterans administration hospital. It was 65 degrees when he left in the morning at quarter to one in the afternoon they decided to let the guys go early as the temperature reached 94 degrees. Absolutely no shade where he was working. As the sun passed the edge of the building the asphalt under him radiated a high of a hundred and fifty degrees six inches up the pavement. He said you just can't think straight with that much heat.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Modern furniture

We go over my mother-in-law's at least once a week. It would be really nice if we could get all the kids to pitch in money at Christmas to buy mom some new modern furniture. It's tough because we would be picking it out for her and all the furniture that's in there was picked out  by dad and her because dad passed on. But we'd like to get her out of the house to have new rug installed along with the furniture. I think that it would be a great Christmas.

Outbuilding solar lighting

Want to add light to an outbuilding or your shed but don't want to spend the fortune on running electrical wires from your house? The solution is adding a solar powered light. Some of these lights you can just switch on  when you want others are motion censored. When they detect movement they turn on for a period of time. We like it because it would really surprise someone if they didn't know it was there.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

POS systems

Starting a business can get out of control in a minute. Just because you bought all your shelving, does your product fit the shelving? Sometimes you can't even trust UPS they lose things on occasion. It's tough to have a grand opening when the grand opening banners don't arrive on time. We only got lucky they arrive the same day after being sent to the wrong zip code. A lot of the things we needed came from POS systems. We specially liked the new hand scanners replacing the old ones we had.

The complexity of building a train track

Talk about complexity, Jarred want to build  another new train set for his geo-trak. For those of you that haven't built a train track obviously where you started is where you finish connecting. The thing about geo-traks is that we have so many bridges that we can make  a train track  three levels high. As you put these together if you are not following closely you're actually building two different tracks and that's not really what we want. We never start out with any particular plan just start building and it turns into a masterpiece for Jarred.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Basement dehumidifier

Each winter it seems that we go through the same thing. We tried to take care of it by cleaning but its a pretty futile fight. Down on our block walls in the basement moisture always builds up. The cold blocks with the frozen grounds behind them start to having moisture on the inside. This can also lead to mold and mildew if you don't take care of it. Adding a basement dehumidifier has helped so much. By adding this we have cut down the moisture by at least ninety percent.