Tony Brewer

Being in the real estate business, I’d like to encourage homeowners who are trying to sell their homes to take a close look at using some window boxes on their houses.  I think that having some nicely done, well-maintained garden window boxes add a real visual touch of homey charm that will make just about any house more appealing to the prospective buyer.  Having some pretty trailing ivies and colorful cascading petunias flowing out of a couple of window flower boxes on the street side of the house will make the house look more inviting. 

But if you are going to do that, you really need to make sure that you keep them looking nice.  Make sure to water the plants often enough so that they don’t droop, and keep dead-heading the petunias so that they will keep flowering for a longer period.  And make sure that the boxes themselves are in good repair – seeing boxes with peeling paint will definately be unappealing!  It might be wise to invest a few dollars into some new ones, just to spruce up the place!  After all, street appeal is important – it is what gets the prospective buyers into the house in the first place!

Well, I heard that the groundhog saw his shadow and ran back into his little den.  The theory is that if he sees his shadow and is frightened by it and goes back into his den then we will have six more weeks of winter.  I don’t really think it is his shadow that scares the little guy!  Good grief, all of the press and officials and party-goers there gathered around to see him is enough to scare any little critter!  I think we should leave the little guy alone for crying out loud!  We ought to be smart enough to know that if it is a sunny day then anyone would see their shadow and just call it good!  No point in the harassing a poor little groundhog over it!

Teri has been thinking about trading in her eyeglasses for the latest contact lenses.  She’s seen some designer lenses that have special effects like cat’s eyes and she thinks she wants to buy a pair!  I’ve never seen anything like them, except for in the movies!  I think that the new contact lens technology where you can do things like that and make them affordable to the average consumer is awesome!  I think that the contact lens technology is growing in leaps and bounds!

It seems that January 28th is National Kazoo Day. I never heard of National Kaz0o Day, but then what do I know. So I decided to google “national days” and found a complete list that was most useful and interesting. I cut and pasted January’s national days to post here, maybe you will learn something as well.

JANUARY

January 1 is …First Foot Day and Z Day

January 2 is …Run Up the Flagpole and See if Anybody Salutes It Day

January 3 is …Festival of Sleep Day

January 4 is …Trivia Day and Humiliation Day

January 5 is …Bird Day

January 6 is …Bean Day

January 7 is …Old Rock Day

January 8 is …National JoyGerm Day and Man Watcher’s Day

January 9 is … Play God Day

January 10 is … Peculiar People Day

January 11 is … National Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend Day

January 12 is … Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day

January 13 is … Make Your Dream Come True Day and Blame Someone Else Day

January 14 is … National Dress Up Your Pet Day

January 15 is … Hat Day

January 16 is … Hot and Spicy Food International Day and National Nothing Day

January 17 is … Blessing of the Animals at the Cathedral Day

January 18 is … Winnie the Pooh Day

January 19 is … National Popcorn Day

January 20 is … National Buttercrunch Day

January 21 is … National Hugging Day

January 22 is … National Answer Your Cat’s Question Day and National Blonde Brownie Day

January 23 is … National Handwriting Day, National Pie Day, and Measure Your Feet Day

January 24 is … Eskimo Pie Patent Day

January 25 is … Opposite Day

January 26 is … Australia Day

January 27 is … Punch the Clock Day and Thomas Crapper Day More Info on Thomas Crapper Day

January 28 is … National Kazoo Day, Clash Day, Rattle Snake Round-Up Day

January 29 is … National Cornchip Day

January 30 is … Escape Day

January 31 is … National Popcorn Day and Child Labor Day

I have always wanted to purchase myself a brand new frost-free freezer. With so many food products that now need to be kept in freezers it is becoming a real challenge finding room to place everything that I am buying at the grocery store each week. I have asked my mother if she would go to Sam’s Club with me sometime in the near future to look and see what types of deals that may have on their chest freezers.

I’m hoping that my tax refund check will be coming shortly and I’d like to use some of that money to buy a few things that I have been needing around the place. I don’t have a membership at the local Sam’s Club, but my mother certainly does and she takes me there on occasion and I have a field day there with her. I like shopping with my mother, we have always had fun times when we hit the stores and I look forward to many more years of shopping with her in the future.