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Oh those Bleeding Hearts

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I believe I took this photo in early June last year.

My bleeding hearts, Dicentra spectabilis, aren’t even up yet, and they likely won’t come up until the end of April or beginning of May, but once they begin to grow they will grow fast and should be blooming by the end of May or early June.

I’ve always heard that Bleeding Hearts don’t get very tall but mine often grow close to three feet tall and spread out almost three feet in diameter. I have to stake mine so that they don’t flop – perhaps that’s why mine look taller than most that I see?

So far the only Spring flowers that have bloomed are my crocus’ but I expect that others will follow very soon, perhaps by next weekend if I’m lucky.

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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.

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