Dr Saxe

Spring is coming

When you start to realize that spring is just around the corner, for some reason it seems to be the time you start looking around the house and realizing that the house needs to be spiffed up just a little. The outside is getting ready to burst with beauty and your home looks like old man winter has whooped its rear end. I guess it comes from having a mother that always had to change something in the house before spring made our house look ‘tired’ as she would put it. She usually went out and bought new artificial flowers but that’s not my thing.

I think my house needs some new window blinds. You know how old and dingy they get after a couple of years and they’re an inexpensive way to really add a new ‘touch’ to the same old room. No need to spend a fortune either if you know the right place to shop for them. I even like window shades for some of my rooms like the bathroom for some odd reason. I don’t know why I want shades in there but maybe it’s because they seem to me like you have more privacy with them but that’s my opinion about it anyway. No one wants anyone to be able to see into their bathroom, now do they?

There are all sorts of window coverings available now from blinds, shades and those pleated shades which I really like. The wide array of colors are just about guaranteed to add that special touch to an otherwise ordinary room. You can color coordinate your blinds or shades to match your couch, bed covering, curtains or what ever you are wanting to accentuate. Luckily as a man, I had a mother that had a good eye for decorating and I guess I got a touch of that from her. Or at least, I like to think that’s where it comes from.

MR Direct Stainless Steel Sinks

I think that it is high time that had a nice double stainless steel kitchen sink for my kitchen. This has been something that I have been meaning to do, but has been put on the list and is pretty much at the bottom end of that particular “To Do” list. MR Direct has some sweet deals on their stainless steel kitchen sinks right now. Stainless steel is the only way to go as far as I’m concerned although they have such a wonderful variety of sinks these days that are really attractive but just not as practical in the long run like good old stainless steel.

Their website (mrdirectint.com) states that they offer same day shipping which is always a plus that I look for. Since I don’t enjoy going out and shopping the Internet has become the way to go for me to go these past few years. There are a lot of great deals to be found for online shoppers like myself, and I intend on making use of all that I can with my budget issues right now.

I’m just about ready to take all of my paperwork to my buddy in order to have my taxes taken care. I think that I did a pretty good job in keeping all of the receipts and tiny pieces of paper that is so necessary come this time of the year with April 15th looming right around the corner. I’m hoping that I will be receiving a good chunk of change back this year and I’d like to take care of some things that are on that “To Do” list and have them done once and for all.

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.

Mailboxes

 Commercial Mailboxes and Residential Mailboxes have come a long way in the past few decades. It has come to the attention to the masses that having your mailbox display your last name and the street numbers on your mailbox and in plain sight for the emergency personnel to utilize is in your best interest.

There has been so many stories in the news about people seeking assistance from our police or fire departments that have not gotten the help that they needed because these emergency personnel can’t find their location due to the lack of necessary information available to them on our mailboxes.

If we rely on this people to come to our aid, it seems the least we could do is make it easier for them to find them and have our Mailboxes have the right information displayed for them to find us in our time of need. They have a good selection of mailboxes for us to choose from these days. Mailboxixchange.com has a good amount of products to check out, if you have the need.

Quality Planters Online

Things are finally getting back to “normal” with the holidays finally behind us, once and for all and it’s back to reality. It’s getting colder and colder with each of these very first days of the new year of 2010. Below freezing temperatures with snow and ice still readily abundant  from the storm we got right before Christmas! And now we are to expect another snow storm later this week…..something to look forward to, sigh…..

I really am anxious for spring to get here, I’ve never been much of fan of winter weather although I do enjoy going skiing a few times each year. This will be a busy spring for me this year. My folks purchased numerous Garden Planters and Window Box Planters that they will need help preparing for and then the actual installing about the place. They picked up some nice High End Planters online. They used Planterixchange.com and found some of the nicest Decorative Planters that they have gone crazy over. I don’t mind helping a bit, I’m grateful that they are still in good health and active around the house and the yard with all their gardens that they are so proud of each year.

Planterixchange.com has a great selection of Indoor Planters and Outdoor Planters that I would encourage anyone to check out. Basically any type of Planter that you could possibly want or need for residential or commercial use.