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If you need a dehumidifier check the product ratings at Wize

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Our summers here in Toronto are so hot and humid that I’ve seriously considered getting a dehumidifier. Obviously now that the weather is cooling I don’t need one now, but come spring I think I’ll be looking for a small one to put in our basement and perhaps one to put on our main floor. If we can get the humidity out of the air perhaps we won’t use the air conditioning as much or we can raise the temp on the air conditioner and save some energy.

If you live in an area that gets humid you might also be thinking of buying a dehumidifier. If you are you should check out the listings for dehumidifiers at Wize.com. They have quite a list of brands to choose from and you can read reviews on the various types of dehumidifiers in order to pick the one that suits your needs best or choose one that has a high Wize rating.

Wize ratings are basically consumer satisfaction ratings so a product on Wize with a high Wize rating is one that most people are happy with using.

You can search for dehumidifiers on Wize by price, brand, the amount of square footage that the dehumidifier covers, pints per day and by humidity control. With so many ways to search for the perfect dehumidifier your bound to find the right one for your needs quickly.






Still recovering from my trip and starting to winterize the garden

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I’ve had a heck of week or three between being sick before I went to Vegas and getting even sicker while I was there. I’m still not up to par but I’m doing a lot better today than I have in more than a week. I think …

We got home early Monday morning and my husband had been wise enough to have both Monday and Tuesday off work. He tried going out in the garden on Monday afternoon to disassemble the patio furniture and start putting it away but it was cold, gloomy and rained quite a bit that day so he didn’t get very far.

Tuesday was a different story. It was very nice outside and while I was lying on the couch still feeling ill he decided to go outside and finish what he’d started the day before. He also managed to mound some soil around the base of ALL of our many roses in order to give the roots, graft and the first foot or so of above ground growth a bit of winter protection.

Hopefully over the weekend we’ll both get out into the garden.

I’d like to trim some of the roses that have very long branches that I know will die over winter. If I trim them a bit I can more easily protect what’s left with a large pile of leaves and some burlap wrapped around the roses. Then when spring comes all I’ve got to do is take the burlap off and digg out the leaves and if it’s anything like previous years there will be very little winter damage to the rose branches and if I’m really lucky the stems might even still be green.

Most of our roses are fairly hardy, but I have a feeling this is going to be a brutal winter so I want to be sure to protect the plants. We lost a few roses last year because we didn’t do any winter protection. It was a mild winter but we had very little snow so the cold, ice and frost damage might have been even worse than if we had had a good snow cover.

Have you begun to winterize your garden yet? Or do you even think about protecting your plants at all?

There’s nothing better than a flat panel TV

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You can not believe how happy I am to be home from Vegas! I’m still sick and recovering from my trip. I haven’t managed to do much at all since we’ve been home, but I can tell you that one of the things I appreciate is being able to watch all the shows we taped while we were away and well … just being able to see them on a decent sized TV. Our hotel had advertised their rooms as having flat panel TVs but they did not. We had a small, at most 20 inch, TV set that only got 9 channels!

As I said now that I’m home and don’t have much energy to do anything I’m quite happy to sit back and catch up on all the TV shows that we taped while we were away.

We have a Samsung DLP and I love it. One day though, we’ll probably end up getting another HD ready flat panel TV perhaps for the basement when we renovate it.

If you are thinking of buying one of the new flat panel TVs you might want to visit Wize.com where you can read reviews of LCD and Plasma flat panel TVs.

They’ve set up the listings so that the televisions with the highest consumer ratings (Wize Ratings) are listed near the top of each review page. You can of course search for television reviews by brand, television type, price range, screen format and display size.

When you find a television that you are interested in you can click on the listing to read all the reviews and even find online stores to purchase the set. Check it out.

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