Tony Brewer

Well, it’s official.  It is the holiday season.  Yesterday Teri started playing Christmas songs on the stereo.  When I got home from work she was playing the Garth Brooks CD “Garth Brooks & the magic of Christmas.”  We’ve had that CD for several years now, and I have to say it is my favorite Christmas music CD.  My favorite song on the CD is the song “Baby Jesus is born.”  That’s a toe tapping hand clapping song with a really nice beat and great lyrics.  I hope it doesn’t get played so much that I get tired of it!

Teri tells me that it is time to buy some new mattresses for the twin beds in the spare room.  I don’t know very much about these beds except that they used to belong to her grandmother, and were handed down to Teri’s mother, and then handed down to Teri.  Teri tells me that these two beds are bedstead beds.  I thought that was a brand name, not a bed type!  I didn’t realize that there are different types of beds - divan and bedstead.

Teri wants to buy some luxury bedstead mattresses from the rest-assured.co.uk website.  She says that they have a large selection of luxury mattresses, and one thing we don’t want to skimp on is a good night’s rest!

Lately Teri and I have been thinking about ways we can make our family room a little bit more versatile.  We’d like to be able to enclose it somehow from time to time and use it as a temporary guest room, when the need arises.  It has very wide open doorways on two ends of the room.

I think I found exactly what we need; Bali Blinds sliding panels!  These make great sliding window coverings, or room dividers.  They have a huge selection of fabrics, textures, and colors to choose from, and they are very reasonably priced.

I found these great sliding panels on the Internet, at the blindsaver.com website. I remembered to check out this website because Teri had pointed it out to me when we were buying Window Shades a few months ago.  The blindsaver.com website carries all of the major brands of window shades, and window blinds.  Their prices are very reasonable, and are lower than many of the retail stores.

They accept all major credit cards, and Paypal as payment methods.  They offer discounts or bonuses from time to time; right now the customer can get a free Ipod or a 5% Holiday bonus discount on orders placed before December 8th.

I noticed that the new bowling alley in town has opened, and is advertising for leagues.  Teri and I were considering going there and maybe joining a league.  We really enjoy bowling, and we’d love to support a new local business.  The big drawback is that we heard that they allow smoking throughout the entire alley all of the time.  Well, I’m afraid that is a deal breaker; Teri is badly allergic to cigarette smoke!  It makes it difficult sometimes to go places because so many places allow smoking inside.  I heard there are some states, like Maine, that has made it illegal to smoke in restaurants and all public places.  I sure wish they’d do that here!