Beverly Hills California is at all times synonymous with the 90210 zip code - this area is a popular home and haven for socialites, elites, and most of all the rich and famous. The city became a household name when Shannen Doherty and the cast of Beverly Hills:90210 debuted during the 90's. Most residents of Beverly Hills are celebrities from the entertainment industry that alone is enough to draw thousands of visitors to the city annually.
Affaire at the Garden
The city is filled with annual Beverly Hills events such as The Affaire at the Garden Art Show - where artists can show their incredible artworks to the audience. This yearly event which started in 1973 has become a great drawer for brilliant artists and visitors, and for over 35 years The Beverly Gardens Park is the place of The Affaire at the Garden Art Show. The art event showcases the amazing artistry of numerous artists and exhibitors from all over the country from various crafts such as painting, watercolor, ceramics, jewelry, mixed media, printmaking, drawings, sculpture, and photography.
Beverly Hills Shops and the World Famous Rodeo Drive
The world famous Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California has attracted shoppers around the world for its designer clothes and fashion apparels. Besides Italy and France, Beverly Hills is the epicenter of the fashion industry in United States. The shopping district of Rodeo Drive extends with over 100 shops and boutiques of renowned designer clothes.
The Greystone Mansion
One of the well-known houses in the area is the Greystone Mansion, it was built in 1928 for the son of a wealthy oil baron. Its amazing backdrop has been the subject of top-notched television commercials, movies, weddings, film and photo shoots and cultural proceedings. Today the mansion is one of the most popular Beverly Hills Attractions - a public park which holds special events, visitors can access the formal garden and inner courtyard area. Besides being a public park the Greystone Mansion holds Musical and Theatrical Performances all through the year.
City Parks and Things to do in Beverly Hills
Anybody can enjoy life of the rich and famous in Beverly Hills Metro, the area is filled with remarkable recreational services and facilities that will surely entice visitors to have a good time such as picnics, family outings, biking, jogging, and hiking. After a busy day of recreation and leisure visitors can enjoy great accommodation at Beverly Hills hotels and great dining to dozens of famous restaurants that offers wide array of cuisines here and around the world.
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I love garage sales that nickel and dime me, but even a dime is paying too much for paper napkins because it was a dime you could have spent on something more durable–like cloth napkins.
I learned about cloth napkins from a friend of mine who grew up in a country where there were no paper napkins. This friend was very frugal and brought up to eat neatly and make that napkin last for one week! She encouraged me to try using cloth napkins and would point them out at garage sales. I had always thought of them as special occasion items that had to be ironed and fussed over, but she used them every day and it didn’t seem to be wearing her out.
I switched to cloth when we had three kids at home and were using so many paper napkins a week that we might as well have been wiping our mouths with dollar bills! Good cotton or linen napkins can be bought at garage sales and thrift stores for anywhere from 10 cents to 50 cents each. (I don’t like to pay more.) If you are handy with a sewing machine, you can make your own from scrap fabric or old tablecloths for even less!
I figure that I wash the equivalent of one queen size sheet in napkins each week. (I don’t demand that one napkin be used for a week!) This requires a little water, a tad bit of soap, and my time to move them from washer to dryer (or out on the line) and fold them.
Do I sometimes use paper napkins? Sure—when I can get them for free! Begonia
We are on countdown to retirement. In Australia you can set up a Transition To Retirement so that when you retire the transition goes smoother. It's also a way to organize your finances so you know what kind of income you are getting from your Superannuation etc. We went to see a Financial Advisor, the same one that many at Hubby's place of employment are with. The meeting went well. Now he is coming to see us on the 25th with a plan of action and we will go through everything and either say yah or nah. I have to say I am a little apprehensive about it all, but then it's something that will come whether I want to put my head in the sand of not.
So Hubby is working for money, and I am working to handle it. Hence a budget and a Price Book and strategies to make the dollar go further.
I had somehow gotten into my noggin that a pants press would be a nice thing to have - as Hubby's khakis come out of the wash impossible wrinkled, and he has a tendency to give me a bit of a hard time because I am not enthusiastic about dragging out the ironing board to iron them.
The new ones can be $200-300 - but I had seen some for just under $100 on EBay - but couldn't bring myself to spend that much. Well - hubby found one in a local Out of the Closet thriftstore (lots of men's stuff there - ) for $20 - so I told him to get it. We could return it in a week - but I am experimenting with it - and altho it's not really designed for it, I am learning to more or less iron the khakis with the press. (There is a knack to it.) I can set it up in the living room & press while watching the tube - which is MUCH better than ironing - & any minor wrinkling can be dealt with using my trusty wrinkly spray of 1/2 water & 1/2 fabric softener (Boy, does THAT save a lot of work!)
We have found lots of great appliances at thrift stores - but this presser and the little movable AC unit are both gems (& would have cost mucho anywhere else). Ditto our portable dishwasher for the apartment - they are more expensive than the regular ones! But at a thriftshop - affordable!
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Have you started your master list yet? Our village-wide garage sale, and those of other towns around here, will be beginning in about six weeks. I get the bulk of my “needed stuff” at the first couple of village-wides of the season. People who don’t normally have a garage sale, as well as the “regulars,” have sales during these Festivals of Economy, so the pickings are excellent! Now is the time to prepare: make your list and start enveloping some cash each week if you haven’t started already!
Having a list helps me stay focused on what we need and slows my impulse buying. I find that without a list I forget or fail to budget for the things I will need in the household in the coming year. (I journal what I spend at each sale, so I know on average what I spend each year at garage sales. That amount becomes part of the household budget line the following year. Seemy 2/23/10 blog.)
I carry with me at all times my master list and index cards containing clothing and shoe sizes and the measurements needed for shopping remodeling and decorating items (such as paint, flooring, tile, baseboards, molding, curtains, and countertops).
Here’s an example of my master list so far:
·Electric chainsaw
·Freezer (20 cubic feet—chest, 2 or 3 years old)
·Flooring for living room and family room (wood and tile—300 sq. ft.)
·Bathroom sinks and or counters
·Bathroom faucets (new)
·1x2-inch wire fencing (3-4 ft. width)
·Split rail fencing
·Bricks and patio block
·Ceiling and wall paint
·Plywood
·Plastic fruit ripener
·Extra two-paddle bread machine
·Extra adjustable slot toaster
·2 sets of King Sized sheets
·Bicycle Repair Stand
I can’t wait for the season to start in earnest. It’s been a long snowy winter. I’m looking forward to some real bargains. I hope you are, too! Begonia
I’ve got the fever. Temperatures are going to be in the 40s (F) for the next four or five days. It’s time to plant the cold frame.
Last year was my first season using the cold frame on the south side of the house. I wish I had room for a couple more! My husband made it for me out of scrap wood and one of three large storm windows I junk picked from a neighbor years ago. (The other two are installed in the south wall of the chicken coop with a three- inch air space between for insulation value.) I planted greens in March and then harvested in April and replanted with cabbage and broccoli for transplant. I used the frame for hardening off seedlings in May. This year I’d like to see how long I can extend the growing and harvesting season by planting another crop of greens in August/September.
It wasn’t as complicated as I thought to grow things in the cold frame. I did have to pay attention to temperature and open the frame when it got too hot inside. Watering was a key issue as well. It dries out fast when the sun is shining. I had some problems with squirrels digging around on warm days, but this year I am going to cover it with a screen of ½-inch hardware cloth from a dismantled chick play pen.
I prepared the soil in the frame last fall so it would be easy to pop the seeds in and water. Today, I divided the frame into two parts and planted two kinds of cut-and-come-again greens (mesclun) mixes plus spinach and radishes. I’ll have to cover the frame with Styrofoam insulation board at night until the temperatures quit falling into the 20s and teens (F).
Some good references for extended season and four season gardening are Building and Using Cold Frames by Charles Siegchrist in Storey’s Country Wisdom Bulletin series (www.Storey.com) and Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long by Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch, and Kathy Bray.
I can hardly wait to taste that first salad! Begonia
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We have just dropped wildblue and as we were doing this
the representative we reached had trouble finding our
wildblue account. They could not find us by the email
address we had with them nor could they find us with
our wildblue account numbers.
We told them this was the reason we were dropping their poor
wildblue satellite Internet service because we were rarely
able to make use of it. ( 2 years of frustration! )
They said that if we wanted to sign up for the wildblue satellite Internet
service, it would not be possible because it was not available in our area!
I will never touch any satellite internet service again.
I hope that we can someday see our phone company
provide DSL service or the local cable company reach
an additional 2 miles to get to us. There are nearly
300 other people who would sign up for cable tv service
along with us. We could then add Roadrunner internet
service as so many of my friends and co-workers enjoy.
Why did wildblue install our dish and take over
$2000.00 of our money for this service which they
admit is not available to us???
Why are there several other homeowners near to us
in all directions that have wildblue satellite Internet service??
Will wildblue refund all of our money which they have
ripped off from us??
I noticed the lights on the wildblue modem and watched
my Netmeter graph for about an hour after we canceled our
service and the first thing I saw was that the lights did
nothing unusual. The next thing I witnessed was that my
Netmeter graph indicated at next to the highest data speed
level that it ever has. Most all of the time when we were even
able to use wildblue, it rarely exceeded 3 to 4 times our dialup
download speed and never gave us as fast an upload speed as
our dialup. I guess they had to activate our service temporarily
in order to un-authorize our modem.
One of the reasons we dropped wildblue was that we could not
connect to the internet at the time we called to end our now
expired contract.. But when they needed to de-authorize our
wildblue modem, they suddenly activated it and at a much higher
speed than we ever were able to use to surf at except for
1 single time when it worked at the speed we were paying them
for.( Except for nearly 10 minutes, 1 time and 1 time alone )
This single time for less than 10 minutes, wildblue ran as fast as
my friends enjoy on Roadrunner!
This was as if they were searching for my modem and
after they found it, the speed went up to about 1/4 of the
speed we have been paying so much for!!
Why did wildblue have to turn our internet on simply to de-authorize
our wildblue modem? Why didn't they just keep on with their old
scheme of not allowing me to use the internet? What right did
they have to turn my internet service off at all, as I always paid
my bill on time? Why didn't they turn off the costs of my wildblue
service when they turned my service off so often?
Funny, we were not able to reach the internet at the time we
called to cancel wildblue but after they finally found our modem
address to de-authorize our service, the internet suddenly
appeared and at a very much faster speed than we were able
to use, save that single time when we got the speed we paid for!
This proves to me just how badly I have been cheated by them.
All those times I could not use the internet with wildblue, they
had simply turned me off!! I should get a refund for all the weeks
and months total during which the reason I could not use wildblue
for internet was obviously that they had selectively and intentionaly
turned my service off
And I was never late on my payment to them ever! They were in
the habit of turning me off for extended periods and on a highly
frequent basis. They owe me a very large refund as well as a public
apology to all of us who have suffered from these service drops.
We upgraded our service with them twice in an effort to get faster
speeds than our $9.95/month dialup gave us. Neither of these
upgrades did anything at all except for increasing what we paid for
the service that we never got.
Our modem is still acting as it has for most of this 2 year
fiasco, the internet is still there but I can no longer use it.
( Nothing much has changed !!! )
Most of the time when we were able to use wildblue, it
only downloaded data at about 1/4 of the speed of our dialup.
We now have our 2nd phone line and are past the absurd 2
year contract.
We only gained a slight benefit from having wildblue, which
was when we wanted to use the phone for calls instead of
for our dialup. But we now have 2 lines and can both
access the Internet and talk on the phone at the same time.
No wonder we have had such a terrible time with this
wildblue scam, they seem not to have turned us on in
the beginning. I guess this is why they never answered
any of my emails complaining of their poor service. It
is also most likely the reason why they never finished
the install in the beginning and caused me to buy my
own new parts as well as properly install the dish and align it
myself.
Why did I have to wait for my 2 year contract to be over
to avoid paying them their crooked early cancellation
fee? If wildblue was not available in my area then why
did they want the early cancellation fee?
Beware of this scam, They will take your money and then
run away from all their obligations to their subscribers.
Their so called 90 day equipment warranty is worthless
because they refused to complete the hacked up installation
and never replaced the junk modem they installed.
I learned they installed A junk modem during their hacked up
install, when the new modem I purchased outright myself gave
me their own message on my computer screen that the modem I
was removing had already been reported as scrap!!
( Imagine that !!! )
Why would they ever answer any complaints from someone who
lived in an area in which wildblue was not available?
Why did they take my money then?
After this, we had to give them our Dishnetwork account
numbers and they then found us but added in amazement
that wildblue was not available in our area!!! (Imagine that)
We signed up for wildblue through Dishnetwork, but we were
not able to get any help from Dishnetwork to correct the
many problems with the sorry wildblue service. Dishnetwork
said wildblue was a separate company and they had no way
to help us other than to give us the wildblue phone number
and web address.
Wildblue never had anyone answer a single email we sent
asking for them to finish their hacked up installation. They
never had anyone reachable at their phone number unless
we waited on hold for often more than an hour just to listen
to some ignorant uncaring person tell us our new $3000.00
computer was too slow to use wildblue service.
It did not matter to wildblue that we could not connect to
the internet with their equipment or service and they wanted
to charge us more than $100.00 to check the install which
was made that same day. ( And did not work !! )
We were never able to contact the installer who hacked up
our install, because he left nothing with his or his business
name that was readable. The phone number for his cell phone
always returned a message that the phone was either out of
area or turned off. The business phone number he left reached
a payphone in a laundromat. We never thought to get the
license number from his car.
I really hope someone has the time and money and legal
resources to either put an end to this scam, or at least
force them to only be paid for service actually received by
their subscribers.
I would be very happy if I could get a refund for all the totaled
weeks and months in which we could not find the internet on
our wildblue satellite system. From all the reviews I have read
on the internet since my mistake in believing their false
advertisements, I am but a single person among the thousands
of duped customers who fell for their hype.
If I only had to pay for wildblue at a prorated cost related to the
actual speed we received as compared to the speed we were
charged for, then wildblue would probably only cost $5.00 a month.
As to their advertised speeds, they very seldom were able to
exceed the speed of my dialup which I had to keep just to have
internet access.
Only 1 time in 2 years of my suffering with wildblue did they
provide me with their advertised speed. But this was for less
than 10 minutes total time.
I am now using my old dialup which I was never able to
drop when we had wildblue because wildblue was seldom
available.
I now do not have my browser popping up the old and tired
messages that I have lost my Internet connection.
I now no longer spend or waste my time hitting the re-try button
to see if I can get a webpage. I am very happy with my old
slow but dependable dialup service.
I do however wish to say that my upload speeds on dialup remain
much faster than they ever were on wildblue. And I can now
attach pictures to my emails I send on dialup without having
to re-send because of wildblue's "OOPS, an error ocurred"
message. I learned early on that if I was going to try to send
a picture on wildblue, I could only send a single picture at
a time because they could not handle multiple attachments.
If I wanted to send someone 5 pictures on wildblue, I usually
had to send 5 emails and expect to read their "OOPS" many
times. Often wildblue caused me to spend more than an hour
just to send an email with a single picture attached, because
of their "OOPS".
And as well, I am saving about $100.00 per month by not
having to pay them any longer.
Buyer beware, because you need to research well before you
also fall victim to this disaster of an internet service.
I have disconnected the wildblue modem and am awaiting the
shipping box they said they would send to me for returning the
modem, power supply and tria to them. I have these items all
ready for the shipping box, but I expect I will need to call them
again next week to let them know I still have received no box
as they told me I would. I can only imagine their probable
response to me, they will probably again tell me that they have
no record of me and that wildblue is not available where I live.
I’ve been delving into my stash of yarn to make scarves for a clothing drive at church. It is a local effort to provide warm clothing for families in need. I am really enjoying crocheting again for a good cause.
Last spring, I hit a garage sale that had a lot of yarn during our village-wide extravaganza (95 sales in one weekend). The woman running the sale noticed me looking at the yarn. I picked up only one bag (I had pretty much run out of money by this time).I told her that I would be using it for charity work, and she said, “Oh, just take it all!” So here I am making scarves with it a year later true to my word.
I’ve tried fancier patterns for scarves, but this granite stitch goes quickly, is flexible, and is very warm. I can make a 4- or 5-foot scarf a day if my needle doesn’t start smoking too much!
Easy Granite Stitch Crocheted Scarf
Choose a needle that complements the thickness of yarn you plan to use . (Gauge will vary depending on size of needle and thickness of yarn.)
Chain 27 (or odd number of chain needed for desired width plus 2 chain for turning)
Row 1: Single crochet in third chain from hook, chain 1, skip 1 chain, and single crochet in next chain. Repeat across, single crocheting in final chain. Chain 2 and turn.
Row 2: Skip first single crochet and single crochet in first chain-one space of previous row, chain 1, single crochet in next chain-one space and repeat across. Single crochet in space between turning chain and the first single crochet of the previous row. Chain 2 and turn.
Repeatrow 2 until scarf is the desired length.
Add fringe or leave the edges of the scarf plain.
You can vary the pattern by using half, double, or treble crochet instead of the single crochet in the pattern shown. The result will be a more open “weave.”You can alsocreate insets of openworkby inserting rows of half and double crochet.
If you don’t have a good cause to donate these scarves to, you will also find that they make good gifts and beginner crochet projects. The first scarf I made using this stitch, manyyears ago, won a blue ribbon at the Eau Claire County Junior Fair! Have Fun, Begonia
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