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Ever wonder what to do with an old shovel?

by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

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When we were at the art show on Saturday I came across this piece. Now I can’t wait for my shovel to rust up so that I can do something like this to it.

Don’t you just love it?

I love the mustache … the eyes and the Oooooooo mouth. Maybe he just got stabbed with a pitch fork?

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Filed Under: Art, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Recreation, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: Art, art work, eyes, Humor, love, metal artwork, photo, rusted shovel, Saturday, shovel art, Wordless Wednesday

Do you think Live Earth will make a difference?

by Tricia

There’s an interesting conversation going on about the Live Earth concert at Go Smell the Flowers.

The blog author asks the question:

Live earth is kicking off around the world today with performance in all 7 continents with over 10,000 events promised globally. Will it really help? Are we too late or no need for concern?

There’s been quite a few replies to that post. Some people are being quite pessimistic stating that whatever we do now won’t make a difference and that the message of the concert won’t really get through to many people. Others are more optimistic stating the changes they’ve made in their own lives towards becoming more green and how every little bit will help.

What do you think?

Do you believe global warming exists?

Whether you believe in global warming or not, do you think that if we all made a few changes in our lives it might help the environment or that it might really be a better way to live?

Chris and I aren’t totally green, but we’ve made a lot of changes in our lives over the years toward living green.

Here’s just a few of the things that we do:

  1. Almost all of our lights are energy efficient, as are our appliances.
  2. We turn the heat down in the winter
  3. We live a few blocks from work so we walk to work
  4. Our car is a 4 cyl and because we live so close to work and many small shops we really only use our car once a week or so for short trips to get groceries etc.
  5. We have a few small trees in our yard
  6. Not all of our plants are drought resistant but many are so I don’t have to water a lot
  7. We grow many of our own veggies and fruit
  8. Our garden is organic
  9. What we do purchase in the grocery store is local whenever possible
  10. We don’t eat much meat
  11. We rarely eat processed foods,
  12. We recycle and use recycled products if they are available
  13. We dry many of our clothes on the line instead of using the dryer
  14. We bring our own reusable bags to the grocery store.
  15. We try to use eco-friendly products whenever possible ie no harsh cleaning chemicals etc.

Do you do any of these things? Perhaps you have some more ideas on how to live green for those who read this site?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Living Green, Organic Tagged With: 4 cyl car, appliances, bike, buy local, clothes line, drought, drought resistant plants, eco friendly products, energy saving lights, environment, flower, flowers, food, Fruit, garden, green, grow, grow your own food, less meat, light, Live earth, Living Green, Organic, organic garden, plants, product, purchase, recycle, recycle products, reusable, reusable bags, tree, trees in yard, turn heat down, veggies, walk

Moving? Visit Relocation.com first

by Tricia

I’ve only moved a couple of times in my life, but after our last move from our apartment to our house I decided that if we ever sell our house we’ll hire professionals to help us with our move.

Let’s face it – moving is stressful. Sometimes a move is just a move from one home to another, but many times it also includes other life changes such as being newly married, starting a new job or a position in a new location, or the purchase of your first house. Why not hire professionals to assist you with every step of your move? You’d be able to deal with whatever other changes might be happening in your life that much better.

If you will be moving sometime in the near future or perhaps might be relocating from your present location because of work you might want to visit Relocation.com.

Relocation.com has everything to assist you with your move. The site doesn’t just list moving companies, no, they also have several sections that will help you with all aspects of relocating from purchasing real estate to securing a mortgage or getting a loan to help you finance your move.

In the moving section you’ll be able to find companies that will assist you with a move within your state, to another state or even your move from one country to another. There’s listings for self service moving, moving companies, auto transport, a moving guide that will help you be sure that your move goes well from start to finish, and listings for international shipping and storage companies.

The people who’ve created Relocation.com have really gone a long way towards making the site a one stop relocating resource. Not only will you find listings for everything that I’ve already mentioned, but you’ll find apartment hunting listings, be able to get quotes for home and auto insurance, find an handyman or renovation company for your home improvement, and you’ll even find a Career section where you can search for a job in your new location.

Do you see what I mean? Once you begin exploring the site you could use it for all of your relocation needs. They’ve thought of everything that has to do with moving and relocating from one area to another to make it that much easier for you.

I also noticed that there are a number of great articles in each section. For example if you are moving there’s the moving guide and a number of other great moving related articles. If you are looking for a mortgage there’s articles about home equity and home mortgage loans, a mortgage calculator and many other informative articles.

The site is quite impressive once you realize how many resources are at your fingertips. If you will be relocating in the near future do take a moment and visit relocation.com.

Filed Under: Finance, Great Sites, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Moving or Relocating, Real Estate, Renovating and DIY, Services Tagged With: apartment hunting, articles, auto transport, career, companies, handyman, home improvement, informative articles, insurance, international shipping, jobs, loans, morgage calculator, mortgage, move out of Country, move out of State, moving, moving articles, moving companies, moving finance, moving guide, purchase, quotes, Real Estate, relocating, relocation.com, renovation, renovation company, resource, shipping, storage companies

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