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Gardening in the dark

by Tricia

I think that I’ve mentioned more than a few times here that I often tend to do a good portion of my gardening work at night. Why? Because my snoopy old lady neighbor who is very lonely follows me around and makes my gardening work hell ’cause it takes me at least three times longer to get anything done when she’s outside watching me.

I love the dear girl but I’d rather sit and have a tea with her before or after I get my gardening done.

There have been times when I’ve gone outside and planted new plants in the dark. My husband holding a big halogen light so I could see.

Now I’m starting to think of less obvious ways to garden in the dark. What about a headlamp flashlight? This would be helpful too if I’m gathering earthworms for the compost or another area of soil in the garden too.

I came across a company called Opticsplanet.net and they sell streamlight flashlights, as well as a number of other brands such as Surefire and Pelican. They have everything from the headlamp flashlight I was fantasizing about earlier, to LED flashlights, pocket, gun mount lights, and flash light accessories. The company also offers discount pricing and free UPS on orders over $29.95 so I think I might just spend a bit of time over there browsing and see if I can come up with a way to light my garden as I work and defeat my nosy neighbor.






Filed Under: In The Garden, Recreation, Shopping Tagged With: accessories, Entertainment and Rec, flash light, garden, head lamp flashlight, In The Garden, pelican, Shopping, streamlight, surefire flash lights

I haven’t put my garden to bed yet!

by Tricia

Slap me! I’ve got bulbs to plant and bushes to trim, perennials to cut down and a whole garden to put to bed for the winter. The weather was pretty nice here all week too.

Did I get any gardening done? Nope!

Now watch, I’ll find time sometimes to get all that work done- and believe me- it is work as it take 3 to 5 days to properly get everything away, trimmed, mulched and covered for winter, and the weather will turn cold on me. God forbid it will probably snow.

Won’t I be the fool for not getting it done earlier when I should have?

I can’t help it though. I just don’t feel well lately and the thought of going out there and doing all that stuff is too much for me right now. If I don’t feel better soon there’s a chance that a good portion of it won’t get done properly either. Oh my husband will do his share but he doesn’t really know everything that has to be done. He always helps me but I’m the team leader in the garden.

Fingers crossed that the weather holds for a few days more so I can get the gumption to get out there and do the work that needs to be done!

Filed Under: In The Garden Tagged With: cold weather, garden, In The Garden, mulch, plant bulbs, prepare for winter

Zopa Inovative investment and lending idea

by Tricia

I’ve been hearing about a new kind of peer to peer lending system. This system was created by a company called Zopa, and they’ve come up with an innovative investment and lending idea.

Zopa has created this peer to peer investment or loan system. It’s a network of people who borrow or lend money to each other. Right now this system is only operational in the UK but it will be coming to the USA very soon. Sounds interesting doesn’t it? If it works that would mean that you’d be cutting out the bank and all it’s charges for paperwork, and administration. Now, I don’t know about you but my bank charges for everything and anything that it can so I’m always looking for ways to cut out bank charges.

Members can borrow money from each other or make online loans. I peeked at their rates for borrowing money and at this time a personal loan’s interest rate is only 5.2%. That sounds pretty good to me.

I think it’s worth taking a better look at this company and what it offers.

Filed Under: Finance Tagged With: Finance, network, online borrowing, online lending, online loan, peer to peer, Zopa

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