Tips on Saving Energy

With the raising costs that are hitting all of us what can you do to reduce your energy use and try to save your money:
1: Switch your light bulbs to new CFL(compact Flourescent) bulbs, you can save up to 45% on your lighting, these bulbs cost a little more but they also last longer than regular bulbs.
2: Plan your trip so you don't back track, avoid area's that you know have traffic issues to avoid idleing, this will save you gas.
3: Unplug un-used appliances, a lot of appliances and electronics use electricity even in the off mode.
4: Turn your heater down in the winter, use a sweater.
5: Summer time keep hydrated to stay cool and use less air conditioning
6: Turn the hot water heater down in your house, you won't even notice but heating it a few degree's less can make a differance.
7: Purchase new appliances with the Energy Star Rating, these will use much less energy than your old appliances.
8: Use rechargable batteries (saves money and is better for environment)

Good Luck, let me know of any other idea's you might have.

A golfing Vacation

We are planning a trip and would love to visit some of the best golf courses in the world we are checking out Golf Packages in Portugal as we have never visited Portugal and we have heard they have some of the most challangeing and beautiful courses around. They have 4 and 7 day excursions that get you set up on the golf retreat with beautiful accomadations.

What a Beautiful View

When we were at the beach the other night I snapped this shot of my wife looking out into the water at sunset. I thought this was a beautiful picture both of her and the scenery around us here in our new home. The water was fairly warm and the kids had a great time playing in the sand and getting me to tow them around on their boogie boards.

Internet Collectors

As a collector the internet has become a very useful tool for connecting collectors with the items they are looking for. You can quickly search the internet and find those special or hard to find items. I have found all kinds of very interesting and unique things that I'm sure you will feel the same way. You can search for sports memorabilia, stamps, models, coins and even presidential dollars. The Collectible Shopping Network is specifically designed to do just that and creates a great environment that is easy to navigate. They feature secure checkouts that you can trust. They ensure product authanticity and will get you great products that you really want.

Mr. McLobster

Sometimes walking on the beautiful beaches around here you never know what you might find. Last night while walking along the beach Blake and I found this big lobster on the shore line. It was pretty cool looking at this guy on the beach with Blake, Kohl and Trinity. They usually only see lobsters in the tank at the grocery store so to inspect one up close and personal was fun. What will we find on our next journey off to the beach?

Reducing our Footprint

It took a long time but it seems as though the general public is becoming more aware of the severity of issues with the Environment. It is great to have the general public becoming more educated about green options as such but what really needs to happen is to have the Governments around the world become more serious and force industries to come up with solutions, faster to reduce emmisions, energy consumption and environmental impacts. We are seeing dramatic changes in our World today as a result of our poor management of resources. With warming climates a shrinking ice field and raising sea levels we could be on the path to disaster. It is important for everyone to become more Carbon Neutral in their thinking and use less energy and recycle as much as possible. Everyday little things we don't even think of can impact our carbon footprint. Would you even think that something as insignificant as sitting at your computer using a Search Engine would have an impact. Your impact so small but when millions of people are using the energy involved to produce the searches are added up it does actually ad to our carbon footprint on the environment. It is a challange to change our way of thinking and doing what ever small things everyday to change our environment, turn the light off a little sooner, put on a sweater and knock a couple of degrees off your thermostate, recycle that pop can instead of tossing in the trash. We all need to work together to fix our environment for tommorrow.

Summer Time

The summer is finally here, after a long weekend of working, I finally got to take the kids to the beach last night and it was really nice, the water maybe a bit chilly but that's not all bad when it's super hot. They had fun and after the beach they still wanted to swim some more so we had to swim at home in the pool too, they've been asking me all week to get in the pool with them.

Clothes shopping

We are getting ready for back to school soon and with a teenager it is becoming harder to shop for him, he is beginning to shop on line alot to find stuff he likes and thinks he will feel "cool" in. It's alot easier as he is also hitting that stage where he doesn't want to be seen with us in public so we are better this way. He is getting into a stage of wanting comfortable clothes with lot's of pockets and things. He found some cool 5.11 Tactical Pants that should fit the bill for him nicely.

Bringing Employees and Employers Together

It is an ever increasing challange to bring employees and employers together but the team at Regency Beauty Industries have taken it to the next level by creating a free website to service the Beauty Industry and bring potential employees and employers together in one space. Employers can post their jobs in beauty for employees to search. Employees can add their information to the online database so employers can find them easily. There are many of today's salons like Great Clips, JC Penny salons, Regis and Life Spa that use this site to connect with potential employees. The easy to use site allows users to review job postings and resumes by zip code to match up to their needs. Bringing employees and employers together is an ever increasing challange it's important to explore every opportunity that is available and this service is free to use.

Our new Family Member

After a long deliberation we finally got our Puppy this weekend. My father had a Beagle and had a litter of pups so we decided to get one for the kids to have. Breigh came home with us and is having a great time and the kids love her, of course she is a lot of work right now with the house training and general puppy needs but she is a great pup and everyone loves her.