Comfortable Seating at the Counter

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Walter

Years ago we moved to a new house as a rental while we searched for the right house to buy. We had no idea that finding nice, affordable bar stools would be such a challenge.

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Tempering Construction Costs With Used Equipment

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Walter

Working with heavy equipment is something that most people cannot do.
1) http://www.tractorexport.com

anchor text choices for link 1:

“used construction equipment for sale”

“used tractors for sale”

“used farm tractors for sale”

“used compact tractor for sale”

2) http://www.tractorexport.com/used-backhoe-loader.html

anchor text choices for link 2:

“used backhoe sale”

“used backhoe loader”

“backhoe for sale”

http://www.tractorexport.com/used-bull-dozer.html

using anchor text “used dozers” or “used bull dozer”

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Eggs Used in Every Meal

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Walter

Today I realized how prevalent the use of eggs has become in the traditional or typical American diet. We have eggs or egg products in every meal and a lot of snacks.

Breakfast can be the traditional bacon and eggs or sausage and eggs, but it you don’t want to cook that style of side meat with eggs meal and decide to have pancakes or french toast, there are eggs on those, too. Eggs are in the bread for your lunch sandwich and eggs are used in noodles, dinner rolls, muffins and many casseroles that we serve for dinner.

Late night munchies and a lot of snacks include eggs. Brownies, cakes, pies, cookies and a variety of other baked goods all contain eggs. Some people like hard boiled eggs and pickled eggs for afternoon snacks. Eggs are everywhere in our diet.

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Tighten Up on Energy Efficiency

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Walter

When we were gathering up all the bills and receipts from last year to figure up our taxes last month, I was shocked to see how much we had paid for just our electric service last year. The total bills were almost as much as our mortgage payments! That is ridiculous and I want to look into hiring home energy auditors to come inspect this house and tell us where we can make changes or improvements to save money on our electric bills.

I am sure that there are things we can do to make the house better insulated and more energy efficient. If what I have to spend on a home insulation contractor is equal to the savings of just a year or two on our electric bills, that would be worth it to me.

There are most likely a lot of things we can do differently to cut back on our daily energy use. I have been questioning the efficiency of our heating system. The furnace is the original one that was put in when they built the house in the 1980′s. Our kitchen appliances and laundry machines are several years old, too. We must cut our electric bill in half and will look at all the energy saving solutions that an audit will reveal.

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Is Europe in Our Travel Future?

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Walter

My wife is interested in saving up now for a trip next winter with the Ski Club. We have been on 6 different long distance ski trips with the Club and we always have a wonderful time. As a bonus to going with the Club, we save a whole lot of money on travel expenses, as the Club gets huge discounts on air travel and lodging.

This time we want to go with the Club on their European trip. Every year they go to either a skit destination in Italy, Germany or France. We’ve been looking at photographs and tourist information on European ski resorts and are getting excited at the thought of an European ski trip.

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