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Strange weather

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How’s the weather in your area?

I think we’ve had some strange weather this year. It seemed like a good portion of June and July were cooler than they should have been and then we got slapped with a huge heat wave with temperatures in the 100 F range. Plus it was extremely humid.

Then during the second and now third week of August it’s gone back to being fairly cool some days. I mean it’s only 17 Celsius outside right now. That’s 62.6 F. Pretty cool for mid-August if I say so myself!

The funny thing is that by the end of the week we’re supposed to have another big heatwave!

We’ve either been freezing or boiling this summer. I sure hope that autumn is nice.






Buy new blinds and get your money back with innovative new program

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How would you like to be able to Shop for Free Window Blinds? Certainly if you need blinds for you windows I’ll bet that you’d appreciate getting them free.

This is a very interesting idea and I hope that more companies adopt this patent-pending method of shopping.

The idea behind this is that you’d visit Freeblinds.com and shop for window blinds just like you would at any other online store. The difference is that once you get to the check out and pay for the blinds that you’ve just ordered you’ll be given a unique code, lets call it a referral code. All you have to do at that point is share your referral code with others. You’ll then receive 20% of their product purchase.

So, just for the sake of simplicity, if the blinds you purchase are $100 and five of the people you give your referral code also buy blinds worth $100 you’ll get $20 from each of their purchases and in no time the new blinds hanging in your living room or bedroom will end up being absolutely free.

If you have friends, family or co-workers who need new blinds it should be easy enough to pass on your referral code. Even easier if you have a blog or website as you can embed a banner in your web site or myspace page. Freeblinds.com makes it easy to hand out your referral code to as you can print out cards with your unique code on it once you are in the checkout area. You can also opt to enter the names and email of friends and family while in the checkout area and Freeblinds.com will send them an email with your referral code.

You will keep receiving 20% of the purchase price from all of the people who use your referral code until 100% of your purchase is has been returned.

I don’t need new blinds right now so I’ll bookmark the site and likely use it in the future. They do have a wide selection of blinds, shades, and motorized shades and blinds to choose from as well as installation instructions and other information about blinds and shades.

If you need new blinds visit the site. You can’t lose since you’re sure to eventually get your money back.

The Color Purple

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My garden is made up of many different colored flowers, but when I look at the photos I’ve taken it seems that there are much more of some color than others. I thought I’d show you a few of my lovely purple flowers today.This flower is grown from a bulb. It’s formally called Liatris and more commonly known as Gay Feather.

Liatris

In my front flower bed I grow a small woody plant called Pervoskia Little Spire. I believe it’s a form of Russian Sage. I think it was a little windy when I took this photo and the flower stalks in the center moved closer to the lense as I shot the photo so the center is slightly out of focus.

If you can’t grow lavender you might try growing Russian Sage or even a nice Salvia as they are similar in appearance (tidier I believe), but they don’t have any scent.

Pervoskia Little Spire

Finally, here’s the common but ever so lovely purple petunia. Need I say more?

Purple petunia

How many purple flowers do you grow?

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