With everyone tightening up their budgets and looking for ways to cut costs and save money to offset the huge increase in the cost of gas - its right at $4 a gallon most places around here now - I have had to cut my grocery shopping budget. My fresh vegetables from the garden help a little, but to be honest I need to save about $40 a week from my

We tried a small vegetable garden this year and I must say that it is a great success. We have so many tomatoes off of just 2 tomato plants that we are already giving tomatoes away to friends at work. The jalepeno pepper plant is putting out all the hot peppers I’ll need for the rest of the year. My green pepper plants are very slow to bear but

Hubby is hinting all ready about his birthday present for this years celebration. He has always wanted and is now looking at gun safes on the Internet. Seems he found a web-sie that has several that he is excited about and wants me to look at them also with him. I think that is it a good idea, we do have several guns in the house,

California continues to burn. The photos on Yahoo News are fascinating in a macbre way. The view from Sausalito eastward to the San Franciso skyline is usually crisp and clear except for a couple hours of fog in the mornings. Now it is a thick brown-gray haze of smoke from all the wildfires. It must be very difficult to even breathe for hundreds

I am hoping that tomorrow night we can take the kids to see the new movie that we have been seeing so many commercials about and is said to be an awesome movie by the name of Wally. We haven’t all gone out to the movies in such a long time and this is the type of movie that the whole family will enjoy and I am really looking forward to it.

My sister is telling me that she has started making money at home with her blog that she has been writing for several years now. She has found a company by the name of Bloggerwave that will pay her directly through her PayPal account for the blogs that certain advertisers want her to write. It does sound interesting,

Last year the California fires making the news were the southern California wildfires. All around Los Angeles and San Diego there were dozens of major fires that took months to put out. Even the upscale and exclusive Malibu Beach area lost multi million dollar homes to the fires. People were being forced to leave their homes and camp out at the

Still looking good for our planned camping trip this weekend. The weather forecast so far says no rain. Still too early to tell, though, so we are keeping the dates in pencil and if it turns bad at the last minute we can change the date without much trouble. One of the fun parts of this weekend is that my girlfriend and her hubby are going

Our youngest daughter has had the same best friend now for over 5 years now and they are so good for each other and I hope that it lasts forever. Having the same best friend over the years is such a positive thing, I am so lucky in that my best friend and I, we met in the 4th grade, are still the best of friends, some thirty odd years later