As the Garden Grows

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Gift baskets Plus for all your gift giving needs

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Did you realize that Mothers day is this coming Sunday? My how time flies! Not only that, but today is my father in law, and my brother in laws birthday. Yep they were both born on the same day, and in my brother in laws case I believe it was on Mothers day. I guess a baby’s a good present for Mothers day huh?

If you’re looking for a more practical gift that a mother won’t have to care for, for the rest of her life, you might want to give her one of Gift Baskets Plus’ personalized gift baskets. They have a large selection of personalized gift products, and personalized gift baskets for all occasions.

Visiting the site you’ll see that not only do they carry lovely gift baskets for all occasions, but they also sell holiday and seasonal items, personalized gifts, furniture, and they also have sections where they suggest gift ideas, as well as display their premium packages and popular gift items.

In the furniture section I found a Children’s rocking chair that’s lovely on it’s own, but that could be personalized with custom art. They also have a really cute and practical fire truck step stool and a dinosaur rocking horse among many other items in the children’s Furniture section.

In the personalized gifts section you’ll find personalized baseball coat racks, bookends, and a children’s toy chest. Premium packages include Gift Baskets Plus signature line products such as high quality chocolates, candies and baked goods. There are several premium packages to choose from and I think they’d make fantastic Mother’s Day gifts.

If you’re looking for gift ideas for adults or children Gift Baskets Plus is a good place to start.






Lightening, free nitrogen and plant growth

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All day yesterday I was expecting rain. The weather station said it was going to rain in the evening but it never did. You know when it finally did rain? 4 in the morning!

What a storm! Thunder, Lightning and torrents of rain … we need it. Our garden was pretty dry and I hadn’t watered for a week or so because we’d been expecting rain that never materialized.

Personally I don’t really like thunder and lightening storms. I don’t like the crash of thunder, nor the flash of lightening, but for my gardens sake, every time I hear that we are supposed to get rain I always hope for a few flashes of lightening in the area.

Why?

Well, lightening puts free nitrogen into the air. Have you ever wondered why your garden always looks so much better have a thunder shower than just a simple rain or even watering with the garden hose? It’s all those free nitrogen molecules in the air. our gardens get a heavy dose of the food that they need to green up and grow – that’s why the plants always look so much better the day after a storm and often seem to grow a few inches right afterwards too.

Humor me … the next time you’re expecting a storm in your area take a good look at your garden or your neighbors garden if you don’t have one of your own. Take note of how the plants are looking and perhaps even how tall they are. The day after the storm, and perhaps even the day after that take a look at the garden again and see if the plants don’t look healthier, stronger and perhaps even bigger.

Peace of mind with IDrive-E’s online backup

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Some of my websites have seen a large increase in traffic lately and have obviously grown in popularity if the traffic, page views and number of comments are any indication. I would hate for anything to happen to my sites such as a failure at my web host that wiped out my sites contents on their servers.

I would be absolutely devastated if I lost the contents of my sites with no way of recovering the information. Equally, if something were to happen to one of my home computers that caused me to lose precious financial data, my many photographs, graphics and other bits of information that I consider important I’d be quite upset.

I do backup my sites on my computer, and since I have two computers I keep a copy of my most important information on each one, but that’s starting to load up my hard drives as the amount of backup storage space needed gets bigger and bigger.

That’s why I’m thinking of using IDrive-E Online Backup. Sure I might still continue to back up onto my computers but I’d also have the added security of having an online backup.

IDrive-E is a leading consumer online backup service. You can encrypt the data that you store, and you’ll have open file backup support as well as a number of other fantastic features.

It’s also free! IDrive-E offers 2GB of free remote backup space. What’s more- there are no backup or restore restrictions, no bandwidth limits, and no file type restrictions either. So you could do a daily backup of your precious data without any problem at all.

You can set it up and do fully automated remote backups of your files and folders, and be assured that your data is secure since IDrive-E uses advanced data encryption. You can also do incremental backups, mapped drive backup and so on.

If you need more than 2GB of storage space you can get unlimited storage space for just $4.95 per month or purchase 12 months worth of IDrive-E online backup for only 49.50 which of course means that you get two months free of charge.

I’m going to try their free service for now and if I need more storage space I might purchase their one year plan. Certainly for the peace of mind and security it gives you, you can’t beat a free offer like this.

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