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Give sloppy kisses to your loved ones

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Now here’s a site that I think might be of interest to my readers. Are you a dog lover? I bet you are, and if you’re not I’m sure you know some people that just adore dogs of all types.

The site is called Sloppy Kiss Cards. I love that name, don’t you? It’s perfect for the site considering that it’s a site that has animated Ecards for dog lovers. Get it? The site has over 35 dog breeds to select from and you can even name the dog that stars in the card that you create.

You can browse the site and have fun picking out dogs and cards and creating cards but you need to sign up for a membership to actually send a card to a friend or loved one.

I played with creating card and I just loved the card I created. I choice a dachshund that looked exactly like one that brother used to have, choose the name Sammy because that’s what that’s dog name was and made a card for my husband. I picked the I love you card. It showed the dog on the beach, near a billboard that said I luv you, with office buildings in the background that’s lights spelled out I love you and so on. It was really cute. At least my husband got to see the card when I made it.

Since there is no advertising on the site, the site gets its funding through membership. Membership only costs $9.95 for a year and once you are a member you can send an unlimited number of cards. A portion of the membership fees will go to support Petfinder.com.

I love this site. Please do check this out if you are a dog lover and let me know if you agree that its a fantastic find.






Using the Garden as an outdoor room

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Have you noticed that since you’ve taken up gardening that you are doing more and more activities in your yard? Have you gone so far as to set up your garden area so that you can use it in several different ways?

The latest trends are of course for gardeners to set up their gardens into areas. One area is often set aside as an outdoor room and is used for dining, entertaining and relaxing. Another area might be for more energetic activities – a pool, a hottub area, or a small play area for the kids. Then of course the garden itself can be divided into any number or areas depending upon how large your space is.

How many of you have an area in your garden that has a patio or deck with an outdoor table, perhaps extra seating in the form of chairs or even a couch, a barbecue or an outdoor brick oven, lighting for the evening, and perhaps even a speaker system so that you can pipe music into your outdoor room?

Our yard is broken up into areas. One part of the garden is mainly for vegetables, but I do grow them with some flowers. The rest is an assortment of perennials and annuals. The garden beds boarder the edges of the yard, but stop in an oval 30 feet or so from the house. That’s where our patio area begins. In mid summer the area is screened by 3 to 5 foot tall plants so it’s very much like a room. We have our barbecue nearby and often entertain outdoors.

Our house is quite small so it’s been a joy to create this extra space. We enjoy it, our guest enjoy it – we’re all happy.

I need new contacts for my dry eyes

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My eyes are so irritated from lack of sleep and dry air that I’m not even wearing my contacts lately.

I keep trying to remind myself that I need to get new contact lenses. I haven’t purchased lenses in more than a year and It’s beginning to be a desperate situation.

I still have a stock pile of single day use Ciba focus lenses, but I don’t find that they are as comfortable for me to wear in the winter months. The lenses are thin and dry out easily, particularly in my dry furnace heated home. I think the medications that I’m on also make my eyes drier so I need to find eye contacts that are a little bit thicker and don’t dry out easily.

I’ve had Discountcontactlenses.com bookmarked for a while now. I’d like to purchase the Ciba Focus Night and Day lenses from them. I purchased some a year ago from an Optician specialty store and they were the most comfortable lenses that I’ve ever worn.

If I buy them from Discountcontactlenses.com I can get them for as low as $36.39 a box if I purchase 4 boxes. That’s a great price. I don’t think that I can find a lower price anywhere else.

If you need to replace your contact lenses you should check out discountcontactlenses.com to see if they carry your favorite lenses. They probably do as they seem to carry all of the major brands and styles from what I can see.

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