It’s not uncommon to see flyers and ads offering Callaway golf clubs in my area, we have a couple of golf courses near here. I was surfing today and found myself wondering if there was such a thing as a pet friendly golf courses. So far I have found out about one - Belgrade Lakes in Maine. Do you know of any others? I think it’s a terrific idea, and shouldn’t be a problem if owners bring supplies to clean up. What a great walk that would be on a nice day!
I was browsing in the Amazon Toy Outlet and found five terrific deals on games. All five of them are in stock.
Monopoly Disney Pixar Edition
Hasbro Transformers Risk Game
Disney Hannah Montana Mattel DVD Game
Hasbro Monopoly Tropical Tycoon DVD Game
Scene It? TV Travel DVD Game
Have you ever heard of the television show Dog Whisperer? It’s a show where Cesar Milan, a dog trainer, tries to help solve dog problems, or problem dogs depending on how you look at it. Today I learned he’s now got a site called Sessions with Cesar. Cesar is offering people a six month membership to his online training courses for $129.95. I myself think that’s too much money. Many people enjoy training their dog their own way. For dogs with behavioral problems I don’t feel an online course that anyone can take is of value. You could learn most of the same material from watching his show, reading books or going online. The site is attractive and easy to navigate. The one thing I thought was of value on the site is the online community people can join for free. If you check out Sessions With Cesar, stop back here and let me know what you think. By the way, this is not a paid post.
Big Fish Games sent me is running a special promotion until September 3rd, offering 40% off all games on Bigfishgames.com! To use it just shop as usual on Big Fish Games and when you get to the checkout use the coupon code BACKTOSCHOOL when you check out.
Over the past several years digital cameras have become less expensive and more accessible to consumers, even ones with a tight budget. When I first learned of Picasa and tried it years ago I wasn’t terribly impressed. At that time it didn’t do much more than find pictures on a user’s computer and allow them to be organized. Now, Picasa allows users to organize photos on their computer as well as edit them, print them and create movies, collages, slideshows and screensavers. Picasa has improved over the years and now that they’ve added Picasa Web Albums I think we’ll all be seeing a lot more of Picasa. Picasa Web Albums allows users to create online photo albums such as Flickr and is free to use. Currently users have a minimum of 1gb of storage available. Users can upload images to their own albums, download friend’s albums, caption and comment photos and share them with others. (I wonder how many people are sharing before and after acne cream photos and stuff like that.)
If you like music you might be familiar with Pandora free internet radio. Or, if you’re like me you might not be. Pandora creates a music channel (or multiple channels) based on the analyzing of songs by the Music Genome Project. I’ll spare the in depth details but what it means is that you enter a song you like and Pandora will find similar other songs. Pandora is free to use. Users can create as many stations as they want. If a song plays on your station that you don’t like you can vote it down and it will stop playing and leave your station immediately. I was impressed with Pandora.
Sort of. There’s a new reality show that premiered tonight called Greatest American Dog. The show will feature a dozen dog and owner teams living together and competing against each other for a prize of $250,000. Each week one team will be eliminated by the judges, who are Wendy Diamond, Allan Reznik and Victoria Stilwell. The host of the show is Jarod Miller. Greatest American Dog will be airing on Thursdays at 8pm on CBS.
As I mentioned recently on one of my other blogs, my son CJ has been having a blast watching golf on television lately. He goes wild when any of the players hit the ball. CJ is turning nine years old in two weeks and I’ve been thinking about what to get him. Today I saw a set of kids pretend golf clubs on Amazon and thought that he might really enjoy one of those. A couple of companies make playsets like this but so far the Little Tikes looks like it’s the nicest. Do any of your kids have a pretend play golf set? Which one? Do you recommend it?
Television’s going to the cats! Sort of. There’s a new television show called Housecat Housecall. It’s being sponsored by Purina Cat Chow. In each weekly episode a veterinarian will visit three different families and try and solve problems the owners have been unable to. Sort of like a Dog Whisperer but for cats. The show will be on Animal Planet, airing on Saturdays at 9 am and Sundays at 7am. The cats will all have different issues, submitted by real people. Some of the real stories already submitted are an aggressive cat, a cat that sleeps in the sink, a cat that stalks a camera and a cat that won’t leave the computer alone. So, if your cat is acting strangely, perhaps hiding all of your Guess watches, send your story in. Maybe you’ll get a Housecat Housecall.
Lately there’s been a bit of press about Britney Spears appearing on the network television show How I Met Your Mother. It’s been announced the Lindsay Lohan has signed to appear in Ugly Betty for six episodes. I wonder if the producers are trying to cash in on the free bad girl pr. Are they hoping to get a free ratings boost from viewers tuning in to see if the drug rehab grads are a wreck? I’ve not seen How I Met Your Mother, and I didn’t like the one episode of Ugly Betty that I saw. And I’m not interested enough to watch it either show just because Britney or Lindsay or on them.
Some people feel that buying additional warranties aren’t worth it. I have found that it’s worth buying an additional warranty on any expensive purchase. We have bought one for every vehicle we’ve bought from a dealership since we married, and used every one. I follow the example my parents set for me. Buy the warranty if it’ll save you more than it will cost you to spend to replace the product and buy the warranty if it”ll be cheaper to buy it than hire a repairman. Most recently my parents flat panel tv in the den started having problems. The repairman came out to the house and said that he couldn’t repair it there and it’d need to be replaced so he took it right off of the tv wall mount and off to the shop. Soon after the tv was replaced with a brand new one, so it paid to have that warranty. Do you purchase additional warranties on expensive purchases? Have you ever had to use it? Have you ever wished you’d bought one after the fact?
Going back a couple of years we had to replace our old metal swing set. It had rusted and was falling apart. My oldest son wanted something big enough that his friends could play on. We wanted something that would last a while and be affordable. So off we went to look at and price swing sets. We looked locally and everything we wanted or liked was out of our price range. Unwilling to give up, I decided to search online to see who else in our area carried them. I had never considered buying one online. I was so surprised to find out that some really big manufacturers sell their wood swing sets online for mush less than you can buy them elsewhere. And they’ll ship them to you on a freight truck. We saved about $400 on the swing set and it’s still standing and in excellent shape. So, if you are considering getting a swing set I recommend doing a little surfing online. You might find what you’re looking for at a really nice price.
Want to save yourself some money in 2008? Of course you do. You can, if you win the contest that Elizabeth over at Table for Five is running. The winner will save themselves some money because they’ll be the recipient of a year’s supply of Orville Redenbacher’s Natural Popcorn AND a one year subscription to Netflix. We boy a box or two of microwave popcorn every week, so this would save us a bunch of money. If you want to enter the contest just write about it and then comment on her blog. That the short versions of the instructions of course, check her site for the full set. The winner will be selected on 01/05/08. I’m in. See you there!
For Christmas all of the guys (my father, husband, son and all brothers) each received a new Xmod radio controlled car. They all already had at least one but since they like racing them so much my Mom got them all another. One of my brothers loves playing with his so much that he has even put together a track at his house. Sometimes they like to add stuff to them and dress them up, so now I have to keep my eyes open for a Dodge Charger accessory or two as I think that’s the one my son got.
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