My Big Concrete Plans

I see a theme starting here. I have been talking a lot about the home improvements we want to make. I seem to have a lot of ideas and not enough drive or energy to keep up with them all! I suppose most people have this problem as well! I keep thinking of things that need to be done to beautify our property, and just hit upon another doozie.

The man who built our home was strange. He did a lot of strange things that don’t make any sense. This one kind of tops the list. Our home sets back off the road about 800 feet, and he decided he was going to make a cement drive way. I guess if he had the money to do it, so be it. The only draw back to it was he didn’t continue it to the road, he left about 30 feet of it gravel, and he only made it wide enough for one vehicle. It is very narrow. The narrow part I can’t do anything about, but the other I can. I just need to come up with the money! I wish I knew of someone like Salt Lake City Concrete that I could get to come and finish the end of my drive way!

I would have other work for them also, like finishing off around my pool. We have been thinking about putting in pavers where there is a little patch of grass left by our fish pond (which is right next to the pool). Instead of doing pavers, we could do stamped concrete!

I have a lot of big ideas, don’t I? They all seem to be bigger than my wallet too!

Troy Is Back!

We picked up the boy on Saturday. Troy did very well in training camp. He was so glad to be home, and to actually sleep on soft furniture though! He didn't move from the couch most of the evening. When it was time for bed, he was right there, and he wasn't going to move for anything!

Adam went through the commands with him yesterday, and he did beautifully. He has retained what he learned! So, we need to give it quite a while, keep going over all the commands with him on the leash for a while, until it is second nature, then we can try off leash training.

So, for the most part, he is doing beautifully. Still having a couple accidents in the house, here and there but he is still a puppy...

Free Millionaire Dating Service

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Father Charged After Texas Crash Kills 5 Children

Chanton Jenkins has been charged with 4 counts of intoxication manslaughter. This is one charge for each child found dead so far. Jenkins was the father to 3 of the children found.

Apparently the road was slick from rain, and Jenkins was distracted by his cellphone that rang. He lost control of the vehicle when he hung up the phone. The car flew down an embankment into a ditch.

The heavy rains started carrying the vehicle downstream. Jenkins' brother, a passenger, escaped along with a 10 year old girl. (she is Jenkins' daughter)

When I first saw this story, it brought tears to my eyes. So many accidents are caused by cellphones. They are a distraction and should not be used while driving. Another cause is the intoxification of the driver... He failed a field sobriety test at the scene.

This man deserves everything he will get for these deaths and for driving while intoxicated. Nothing will bring these children back, from a mistake of pure stupidity.

Don't Skimp On Wedding Favors!

Are you looking to save money on your wedding? A lot of people will try to save money on their favors. I remember the last wedding I went to, their favors were very lame. Now, I am not saying that you need to have memorable wedding favors. Most people will remember the beautiful wedding itself, not the favors 10 years from now! My humble opinion is don’t have favors if you are going to do something that will be embarrassing. It will be better to have nothing at all, than something that will embarrass you.

With that said, I have found a site that has wonderful favors, at very affordable prices. And they have edible wedding favors too! The nice thing about this site is they let you choose your own packaging, with a label you design, and the ribbon you like also! They have wonderful wedding cookie favors and candy wedding favors as well. You can even use these favors for other kinds of parties as well, even as give aways to your clients!

Colorado Woman Arrested For Taping Dog To Fridge

A Colorado woman has been arrested on cruelty to animal charges. She taped her boyfriend's dog to the refrigerator.

Apparently she was angry because her boyfriend wanted to keep the dog, so she used packing tape to bind the dogs legs, snout and tail, then stuck the dog to the refrigerator upside down.

Source Fox News

How about we bind her arms and legs up with packing tape, and stick her to the fridge upside down. I wonder how she would feel then??!!!

Another Project At The Homestead!

We have a couple of projects to take care of this spring. Not just the hole in the ceiling of the kitchen! We had a couple of leaks this winter onto our kitchen ceiling as well. Our roof unfortunately backed up with ice this winter.

The winters here in northern New York are brutal. One year we were snowed in for 4 days. The snow that was in front of our house was up to about 6 inches below our roof line. I am not exaggerating either! You couldn’t even tell there was a house on our property if you were looking from the road! So last winter, we had a lot of snow, then warm days following it, then it would snow again.

The whole winter went that way. We ended up with about 1 ½ feet of ice backed up on our roof. That is when the leaks started. I got out on the roof and started chipping away at the ice. My brother in law came over and helped as well. Then my husband and father got out there and got the majority of it off on a real warm day. When the shingles were uncovered, of course there was some that were damaged. Now they need to be replaced.

I really want to put a steel roof on the house, just to alleviate all the problems we have run into the last couple of years. That way the snow and ice will just slide right off of it!

I wish I knew a roofer like the Salt Lake City roofer that could help us out with this. I get so aggravated when I have to go and pick out everything at the stores. I just want a roofer to come in, have me tell him what color I want, and be done with it. I want the job done right! Now all I need is someone to pay for it!!!

10 Ways To Cut Your Grocery Bill

In this day and age we need to save money any where we can. That includes on our grocery bills also. I came across this great little ebook that gives tips on how to save money on our groceries.

Just a little disclaimer, you do not have giveaway or resell rights to this. If you wish to purchase resell rights, there is a link inside the ebook to do so.

Here is the link to download:
10 Ways To Cut Your Grocery Bill

Our Quest For Travel Bags

My husband travels for a living, and is on the road probably close to 200 days a year. Needless to say, he tends to go through a lot of luggage. The airlines aren’t as careful with it as you believe they are. They usually do the old “heave ho” when putting them on the conveyor belt to get onto the plane. Yep, they sling them pretty darn good. He has come home plenty of times with the rollers broken, and zippered compartments ripped. We are constantly on the look out for more durable luggage than we have found thus far.

While surfing on line one night when I was bored, I came across a great site for wheeled carry on luggage. Luckily, he doesn’t have much trouble with his Briefcases and Carry-On Luggage, since they are always in his custody!

It seems that my husbands bigger bags tend to get shredded a lot faster than the smaller ones. I was looking at their larger wheeled luggage and found one that I think will hold up to the wear and tear of his travels. It is called the Intensity, and it is a 24” expandable bag. It comes in two colors also, black and coffee. I’ll see what my husband thinks of this one, I think he will like it too!

New Blog Game - BackLink To Me

Here is a new blog game that we all can play. It is called BackLink To Me. This is a new and fun blog game that we all can play, which will help us increase our backlinks. Backlinks, as we all know, is the foundation to a successful or increased Google PageRank. If you want to increase your Google PageRank, you have to increase the number of backlinks to your site and almost as importantly, your secondary or (deep linked) pages. Backlinks are a collection of other pages on the Net that link back to your site or page within your site. Playing the new blog game, BackLink To Me will help you increase the number of sites that link to your site.

Hello! My Name Is Kate. My website is at http://hodge-podge-blog.blogspot.com/. I have a BackLink to Tempting Magazine . Here is how the game works:
1. Create a new post and title it, New Blog Game - BackLink To Me.
2. Copy my entire post and paste it into your new post.
3. Change my name to your name.
4. Change my website address to your website address
5. Change the name of the person I have a backlink to my name! ( Change Tempting Magazine's link to Hodge Podge Blog's link of this post to make a connected chain of blogs)
6. Link my name back to the url of this post!
By participating in this blog game your site and one deep link page within your site will be a link in a huge chain of blogs that are all connected together. Google bots visit our sites daily (not sure if you knew that). By keeping our chain of links all together in a continuously growing circuit, we gain and increase a united linking strength. I want those Google Bots to visit all of our pages so that we all can have an improved Google PageRank.

If you decide to play the new blog game, please remember to link directly to this post, not my home page. I already have a link to that here on this post.
Please write a quick comment here on this post to let me know you are playing! That way I can keep track.
Have Fun!
- Kate :D

Free Weight Loss E book

I came across this e book when I was surfing the internet, and wanted to share it with all my friends out there that are trying to lose weight like me!

Just a little disclaimer, you do not have resell/ give away rights to this book, you may purchase resell rights to this ebook, there is a link within the ebook to do this.

Here is the link!
15 Tips To Lose Annoying Holiday Pounds

Our Plumbing Incident

Ok, so my husband definitely isn’t Mr. Fix It. We have been slowly remodeling our bathroom for 2 years now. Actually it has been ever since I was pregnant with my second girl. She is 19 months now. The former owner decided he wanted a tub and a shower stall in the bathroom, instead of combining the two.

Needless to say, I was getting too big for the shower stall, so I demanded that we correct the situation by making the tub into a tub/shower combo. Then we would take the shower stall out, and make it a desperately needed closet.

Anyways, we were able to get the tub/shower combo done prior to me delivering. The only part that went by the wayside was the closet. This past weekend my husband decided this was it, he was going to finish it. Out came the shower, and needless to say, he wasn’t too careful with taking it apart, so he literally broke the drain pipe.

Now we were stuck with a broken drain pipe and no way to fix it. Needless to say, we had to call a plumber. I searched high and low for one to come out on a weekend., and finally found one, who ended up charging an arm and a leg for 5 minutes of his time. I wish we had someone like the Roxboro plumber in our area, that way I would have known I wouldn’t have gotten taken!

Next time, no plumbing for my husband! The next project is to fix the hole in the ceiling of our kitchen. (he stepped through it when he was in the attic!)

Pet Sitter Accused Of Animal Cruelty

A pet sitter in Minnesota has plead guilty to the charge of animal cruelty. She apparently over fed a potbellied pig named Alaina Templeton. The pig normally weighed 50 lbs. She ballooned up to 150 lbs within 9 months. Her collar became embedded in her neck and had to be surgically removed.

Unbelievable once again folks! This woman plead guilty to this charge, because she knew she would be found guilty by trial... The collar alone is enough to get her on animal cruelty charges! Another prime example of someone who shouldn't have pets.

Source Fox News

Post Your Resume Free Online And Get Paid For It!

Have you been looking for a new job? Are you looking for a change, but still want to stay in the same field of expertise? The latest craze to hit the job market is- posting your resume online. There are many sites out there that give you this opportunity. You can post resume free online, and hope that a suitable employer will look at it and call you. Seems pretty simple. But, how would you like to be paid everytime a prospective employer views your resume? Now it is possible with this website I found!

You can create resume, and post your resume free on this site. I am so excited about this site, I can hardly contain myself. I wish this type of thing was available years ago. I may have landed a better career than what I did!

If you are an employer, this site will act like a resume assistant for you. You can search resumes for free. If you choose to download a resume, they will cost you $3.00 at the least. The money that is charged for the resume gets split up, $1 goes to the owner of the resume, and then donations are made to a school or charity of their choice.

Pennsylvania Couple Too Drunk To Notice Baby Dying

I just read an article that made my skin crawl with anger.

A Pennsylvania couple apparently had an evening of drinking and snorting cocaine, then the mother breast fed her baby in a recliner. The following morning the mother awoke to find her baby unresponsive.

The couple are denying that mom was intoxicated. The defense is planning to present evidence that the baby had no alcohol or drugs in its system. Witnesses are saying they saw the couple intoxicated from alcohol and cocaine.

Source Fox News

My opinion on this is, what was the mother doing drinking let alone snorting coke when she was breast feeding???!!!!

Even if you take the breast feeding out of the equation, what is she doing drinking and snorting coke when she is taking care of her child???!!

Sometimes, I just don't understand people.