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Waiting for the Tinmen

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Update, I wrote this post earlier today after I cleaned up the house in anticipation of visitors (who would soon be making a mess of the house!), but it’s not going to happen. AGAIN!

We’re in the midst of a snowstorm and our expected guests just called to tell us that they wouldn’t be driving into Toronto from where they live out of town as the weather and driving conditions are just too bad. Boo Hoo … my tin ceiling has to wait again. Oh well, maybe next weekend.

I was looking forward to their visit. Read below to find out why.

I’m sitting here waiting for our friends to show up and help us work on our tin ceiling. I have a feeling we won’t get much work done tonight though.

My husband is a musician and so are the two men that are coming over for the weekend. I think this evening will be filled with the sound of acoustic and electric guitar and vocals.

As I sit here writing this post I’m listening to a song that was composed by one of the guys. He sent it on Thursday night so that Chris could listen to it and help him figure out how to do one part of the song different.

It sounds fantastic to me. It’s kind of folky mellow but has a beautiful rhythm and the words are catchy enough that before you know it you’re singing along to the Chorus. Who knows I could be listening to the next great hit.






Is your credit card saving you money or costing you money?

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I think that it’s probably safe to say that most of the people that read this site likely own or rent their homes. Am I correct? I know that there are probably some apartment or condo dwellers amongst my readers but most of you likely have homes or cottages where you garden.

One reason why I was wondering this is because I was recently told that in recent times more people are likely to put their money towards home loans rather than spending on credit cards. While that may be true, I think that since the majority of people who read this site are gardeners with their own homes and land to garden on that you probably do use your credit cards for purchases.

Certainly at this time of year many of us are putting in orders for spring with the mail order garden companies. Purchasing plants, seeds, gardening supplies and gardening tools. Which is why I wanted to tell my readers about a site that I just visited creditcards-gb.co.uk where you can learn more about credit cards in general, as well as compare credit cards in order to obtain the best one for your purchasing and budgeting needs.

I figured that since many of us are probably making gardening purchases with our credit cards that it might be time for some of us to evaluate the current card that we are using and perhaps get another card that has better rates, and perhaps even 0% balance transfers. I know that I’m always looking to save money on my credit cards. I’d rather have one with low interest rates or 0% balance transfers than one that charges me 18% interest! I’m sure you would too.

If you are interested in finding out if obtaining a new credit card might end up saving you money why don’t you visit the Uk Credit Card Guide and read the credit card news, and compare the many different types of credit cards that can be found on their site and see for yourself if one of the cards offered on the site might suit your needs better than your current card.

Tin Ceiling going up this weekend

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Our renovations are back on!

We have two good friends coming to our house from out of town this weekend. They’ll arrive on Friday. They are coming to help us finally put up our tin ceiling!

We purchased the tin ceiling tiles three years ago when we started renovating our living room and dining room area by knocking down some walls, and venetian plastering the walls. Now we’ll be working on getting the majority of the ceiling tiles up.

I’m excited! I’m finally going to see what the rooms look like with their new ceiling.

We’ll have to get a case of beer to keep the guys hydrated. (yes I know beer actually dehydrates, but most men don’t seem to realize that) My husband also wants to have a bbq but with the weather being so cold now I’m not so sure about that. We’ll see.

Once the ceiling is finally finished we just need to put the baseboards on, figure out what kind of molding will look nice with the tin ceiling and also decide what kind of wall to put up between the basement stairs and the dining room.

At that point all of the work we’ve started will be finished. After that we’ll decide whether we’re going to begin renovating the unfinished basement or the kitchen. This house is going to be very nice when we’re done.

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