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Slight delay on site changes

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Yes I know, I said I was going to change the theme and look of this site a few days ago and nothing has happened yet. Honest, it’s going to change soon.

I won’t put a time limit on it, but I’ve got the new theme picked out and I just have to work on it and whatever graphics that I might include in the new design.

I’m also hoping to post some great articles soon. I have them in my head, I just have to start writing all of them out. I’ve recently been inspired and I think you will like the new home and garden related articles that I’ll be posting here soon.

The reason that I haven’t got much done this week – on any of my sites – is because I’m still feeling very sick. I just can’t make myself sit up and work on articles and site design when I’m like this. I haven’t even been able to talk myself into taking a walk in my garden to see what’s growing. Now isn’t that sad? I think it is.

Anyway, keep an eye on this site. Sometime in the very near future there’ll be a lot of changes and some great articles that I think you’ll enjoy. Stay tuned.






Have a regular game night in your home

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My husband likes to get together with the guys every now and then for a game night. One of our friends has a regular weekly poker game and my husband goes to our friends house regularly to participate in this mini poker tournament.

When I visited the Executive Gaming Monthly website a little while ago I discovered that they have a game of the month club. When you register and purchase one of their game of the month packages you’ll have a new game of your choosing sent to you each month. I was thinking that this might make a great birthday gift for my husband since he already enjoys participating in a regular game night at his friends.

We could have our own regular game night – and not only that, but feature different types of games each month thanks to the game of the month club.

The site offers a number of different types of monthly game packages. There’s the “Player level game of the month club” all the way up to the “custom game of the month club”.

There are a wide selection of games that you could select to be delivered to your home each month. For instance, depending upon what package you chose you could get a blackjack game one month, a poker game the next, and a roulette game the following month and so on.

If I got a gift like this for Chris we could set up some of the games in the backyard with our lovely garden for ambiance in the summer time, and then in the cooler winter months we could set up our hopefully soon to be renovated basement as a recreation and games room with, eventually, a variety of casino like games set up to play on game nights.

Now imagine having three or more different games that you could play on game night? Wouldn’t that be great? Check out the Executive Game Monthly website if you are interested in seeing all the games and gaming packages that they offer. Oh and they even have extra game supplies too.

The many benefits of Gardening

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Have you ever sat back and thought about how good gardening is for us in general?

There are obvious benefits to gardening, for example if you grow fruit or vegetables in your garden you have access to fresh fruit and veggies throughout the growing season. The produce your grow is so much fresher than what we can purchase in grocery stores isn’t it? Not to mention that it likely lacks harmful pesticides and other chemicals that could be bad for our health.

Less obvious perhaps are the social, psychological, and physiological benefits of gardening. Maintaining a garden, whether it’s one that produces food for your family, contains a mix of flowering and leafy plants or a mix of both is good exercise, gets us outdoors for some fresh air, and allows us to spend quality time with our family or friends when we are working in the garden, or sitting back and enjoying the view from the patio.

My garden is many things to me. I spend several hours working in the garden from Spring though to Autumn. I know that I get a fair amount of exercise while working in the garden.

When I’m out working in the garden my neighbors often come out to work on their own yards, or simply just to say hello. Therefore I get a chance to get to know my neighbors better and to create a sense of community within my neighborhood.

When I’m not working in the garden, I can often be found either gazing out the window at the lovely flowers, or sitting at my patio table enjoying a drink or pleasant meal with my husband and or friends and relatives.

My garden is also one of the first places that I head after a long night of working as a Nurse in the ER. There is nothing like walking through the garden in the early morning hours to see which new flowers are about to bloom and smelling the heavenly scent of rose perfume wafting through the air. A few minutes in the garden after a long night of taking care of patients and perhaps saving a few lives and I’m almost magically de-stressed. It’s wonderful.

I also take great pride in how my garden looks and I’m very pleased when people stop on the sidewalk as they are walking by our house to look at the flowers in the front yard, or even to stare down our driveway to see the beginning of our backyard paradise. If I happen to be outdoors when my garden catches their eye I usually don’t mind talking to them about the plants I grow, or listening to their compliments.

Why do you garden? What benefits do you derive from gardening?

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