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Outdoor cedar furniture

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I’m sure many of my readers have lovely gardens, and patios from which to sit and enjoy their gardens. Others might not have full gardens, but you might have a nice apartment or condo balcony that you’ve added potted plants to and have tried to create a nice area to relax in.

What kind of furnishings do you use in your yard, patio or balconies? If you need more outdoor furniture or if it’s time for a change you might want to take a look at the various types of outdoor wood furniture that is being sold at Adams All Natural Cedar.

I don’t know about you, but I really like Adirondack chairs and cedar tables. The chairs are comfortable and I like the color of the wood.

If you also like lovely outdoor wood furniture do take a moment and visit Adams All Natural cedar. It seems they carry quite an impressive selection of items. Just looking in the Patio section of the site I see listings for Wicker furniture, barstools, cedar chairs and loungers, potting benches, outdoor storage, gable vents, cedar planters, Garden benches, Garden bridges, Garden trellis accents, Dog and cat houses, Swings and Gliders, Outdoor rockers, outdoor tables, mailboxes, door mats, flower window boxes, log furniture, arbors and pergolas and much more.

If you were to purchase some furnishings from Adams you’d also receive free ground shipping if you live within the U.S. contiguous 48 states. I can imagine that it’s not cheap to ship wooden furniture so it’s nice that they offer free ground shipping to customers.

Visit the site if you are looking for outdoor furniture. I’m pretty sure you’ll enjoy the selection.






My sites are back up!

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I’m so sorry to those of you who might have tried to reach this site or any of my others between sometime Saturday morning and late last night. I had a terrible problem with my web host and I’ve since moved all of my sites over to a new web host.

This problem should not occur again. I’m quite happy with my new host and I think my sites are in good hands.

I was so busy trying to get my sites back up again – contacting my web host via support tickets and so on that I didn’t take a time out to visit Green Thumb Sunday bloggers.

I do hope that my Green Thumbers did some green thumb posts on Sunday. If I get time I’ll try to come around a visit some of you. I don’t think I’ll do a GTS post since it’s already Tuesday, but I will try to make next Sundays extra special to make up for missing this past Sunday.

Free blog community at Thoughts.com

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I was asked to do a write up of Thoughts.com blogs – a 100% free online blog community.

Thoughts.com was given an appropriate name since it was created as a place for people to share their thoughts. It has since developed into a community of bloggers from all over the world.

As free blog communities go there are a few features that you’ll find on Thoughts.com that you won’t find elsewhere.

Unlike other blogging communities members of Thoughts.com can share videos, photos, music files and podcasts. Registered members can even rate other members videos, podcasts, blog posts and photos. In fact, if a member wanted to be able to make posts in the community blog sections of the site they would need to have been rated by other members and have attained a rating of 4 in order to post. So participation and interaction with other members is obviously encouraged.

I realize that many of the people that read my gardening blog have websites or blogs of their own, but not all of you do. Perhaps Thoughts.com might be a site to explore since you can upload your own photos and videos for others to see. If you were to sign up for a free membership you could use your blog as a journal and make entries about your plants or gardening methods.

The best feature of the site is of course that you can upload so many different types of multimedia all in one site. Other blog related communities or for that matter even personal blogs often need to host their photos, videos and podcasts on a variety of sites and then embed code into their blogs or posts in order to show others what they’ve created. Since you can store all your multimedia files right on thoughts.com I’m sure it’s easier to use photos and videos in your posts or point others to these files without having to leave the site.

Another great feature of Thoughts.com is the fact that they reward their top members with a free trip each year. This year they’ll be taking five of their most active members to Las Vegas. It’s an all expenses paid retreat. You can read all about it on the site but the winners will stay in a 4 star Las Vegas resort, have three free dinners and two free shows awarded to them, as well as having round trip airfare from anywhere in the continental United States.

Now that sounds like a pretty sweet deal. I can’t think of any other blog community that does anything like that. The best part is that all you have to do to win is be one of the most active on the site which is easy enough to do if you are uploading photos and videos, having them rating by members and rating other members items as well.

Check out Thoughts.com if you’d like to start your own free blog and socialize with others. Don’t forget to visit the community forums while you are there.

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