Dr Saxe

Some Good Old Fashioned Camping Is In Order

With such great weather for the next few days it has brought on a craving to be spending time Outdoors. Some Camping and Hiking sounds like a great idea, but I’m sure that the ground is still a bit frozen from the harsh coldness and all the snow that has been so abundant for the past several months. But the real Spring season should be rolling around pretty soon and I’d like to get out the Sleeping Bags and Tents out and take a weekend to do some good old fashioned camping with some good friends.

If I need to pick up any item that might be needed that I can’t seem to find I can always go online and pick up some sweet deals on the Internet. There are plenty of good deals to be found these days. Companies are hurting for business, big time, so prices are dropping in order to make any type of sale.

I do believe that when the weather breaks and we get out of this dark cold winter, people’s spirits will start rising. It’s been a rough winter and with the economy not showing any signs of improving there are a tremendous amount of very unhappy folks out there. I can only hope that spring will help us all out. Travel and Outdoor Fun can do wonders for a body.

Dinner & a Movie

Since we knew more snow was on the way today, last night I took a gal to dinner and then to the movies. She wanted to see Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief that just came out in the theaters on Friday. We went to the Olive Garden and had a good meal and a few glasses of some good wine before heading to the movies. I had no idea that the movies were going to be so crowded, we ended up having a hard time finding two seats together and ended up having to sit in the second row, which is hard on my eyes and my neck. But it was a good movie, my date was happy and for the most part the evening was a success.

Neighbors

I grew up in a wonderful house in a wonderful neighborhood, my parents still live at the house that all of us kids all grew up in and one day (when my parents have left this world) I’ll most likely be living there myself. My father has put a lot of blood sweat and tears into the place and I’d be proud to take over where he leaves off. The backyard is spectacular, my parents and their friends and neighbors still enjoy spending time back there all year round.

My father and the neighbor next door took a lot of time looking into garden arbors back in the 90’s and both decided that they could build bigger and better wood gazebos then what was available for sale at that time back then. My dad’s gazebo is still standing strong, while the neighbor’s has been long gone, a vegetable garden taking up the room that once held one of the nicer gazebos in the whole neighborhood. Both of the beautiful arbors are still in place though. Oh well nothing good lasts forever as they say.

Our long time neighbor has just placed a “For Sale” sign on his house. They are heading south to the Carolina’s, looking for better weather to live their golden years out in. People are heading more and more to the Carolina’s to retire in, I guess Florida has reached it’s limit of seniors, so it is either out west to New Mexico and/or Arizona or down south to North or South Carolina.

We will miss our long time friends and neighbors and we can only hope that our new neighbors are friendly folks that we can get to know. It makes such a big difference if you can get along with your neighbors, we have always been lucky in that way at the old homestead.

Mother of All Blonde Jokes

This blond decides one day that she is sick and tired of all these blond jokes and how all blonds are perceived as stupid. So, she decides to show her husband that blond really are smart.

While her husband is off at work, she decides that she is going to paint a couple of rooms in the house. The next day, right after her husband leaves for work, she gets down to the task at hand.

Her husband arrives home at 5:30 and smells the distinctive smell of paint. He walks into the living room and finds his wife lying on the floor in a pool of sweat..

He notices that she is wearing a heavy parka and a leather jacket at the same time. He goes over and asks her if she

is OK. She replies yes. He asks what she is doing and she replies that she wanted to prove to him that not all blond women are dumb, and she wanted to do it by painting the house..

He then asks her why she has a parka over her leather jacket. She replies that she was reading the directions on the paint can and it said……..

You’ll love this.. Yep, I know you will.

“FOR BEST RESULTS, PUT ON TWO COATS.”

Online Shopping

Online shopping is here to stay. I know that I’m not the only one that hates leaving the house to go shopping all over town trying to find what you want at the best price. I heard the numbers on the news the other evening of the online shoppers who purchased the majority of their Christmas holiday shopping using the Internet at home and at work. I don’t remember the exact numbers but they were very high, I’m wasn’t surprised at the numbers I can tell you that. It only makes sense to use the Internet to your advantage to find the best deals possible without ever having to leave the comfort of home and/or work.

Now with Christmas done and over with we are finding ourselves with a lot of gift cards to use on products or services. I just ordered a pair of hush puppies shoes along with a nice pair of ralph lauren sneakers online using one r more of the Visa gift cards that I received for Christmas.

With Valentine’s day coming up next month I have had my eye on a nice timex ironman watch that I would like to give to a certain lady friend on February 14th. I’ve done my research and found the perfect one at the right price. If I order it now it should arrive in plenty of time for the occasion. If something doesn’t work out with the order I still have plenty of time to find something else in time.

I look for free shipping offers, if you can get out of paying for the shipping you can get some mighty fine deals.