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Same Day Carpet Cleaning

Oh my goodness! You have a dinner or house warming party tomorrow, and your dog just tracked mud all over your living room carpet! What are you going to do now? Well, if you are lucky enough to live in the service area of Same Day Carpet Cleaners, all you will have to do is pick up the phone. You’ll  get expert rug cleaning in no time, and you won’t have to worry another moment about that muddy carpet.

You can try calling other carpet cleaners in the city, but you will find that Same Day Carpet Cleaning will adjust their schedule to fit yours. They don’t charge extra for weekend work, either. When you hire Same Day Carpet Cleaning, you won’t have to worry about your carpets or furniture being damaged, either. They have trained and experienced technicians who always check to see what your carpets or furniture are made of before the work begins. This company is also 100% green, using a variety of organic cleaners and different cleaning methods to make sure your carpet is as clean as possible.  You candepend on Same Day Carpet Cleaning because:

  • We arrive right on schedule. We’ll give you an exact appointment and you will never have to wonder when our cleaning team will arrive.

  • Each job receives our team’s full attention. We have never over booked cleaning appointments.

  • Powerful and consistent cleaning service for each and every job.

  • We do things right the first time

Preparing For Pregnancy?

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photo courtesy everydayfamily.com

Whether you are a young woman preparing for pregnancy for the first time, or a grandma who wants to refresh your memory because your daughter or daughter in law has announced that she is pregnant, you can find a lot of information on the EverydayFamily.com pregnancy pages. It is just a normal thing for you to want to know all the information you can get about every phase of pregnancy, from conception to delivery and beyond. You can get all the answers you need on the pages of EverydayFamily.

Some of the topics covered are “how do I know if I am in labor?”, “Unusual Baby Names”. “Pregnancy Basics”, “First Trimester”, “Second Trimester”, “Birth Complications”, and “Pregnancy Complications”.

My youngest daughter just had a baby. He is 20 days old today! He is so adorable, but boy did my daughter ever have complications with this pregnancy. She always called me after her doctor visits, telling me about preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, placenta previa, and high blood pressure. I always had to go online and look up these terms. I could find everything I needed to know about them at the EverydayFamily.com Pregnancy pages. While I still worried about her, at least I knew where to go to find out more and stay informed along the way. Check it out today if you are expecting or becoming a grandmother.

Wrought Iron Railings

When I was growing up, the house I lived in had beautiful wrought iron railings on the front porch and carport. That house was built in the early 1960′s. My mother still lives there, and those wrought iron railings are still existing, and are in great shape after all these years.

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When my husband and I were looking at houses to buy, we looked at many many of them, but there was no wrought iron fixtures of any kind on any of them. I thought that the artful work of wrought iron was a thing of the past. I was mistaken, though, because Indital USA still produces a line of wrought iron railings and fixtures.

If yo are looking for some beautiful wrought iron products, check out the website of Inditial USA. They have a wonderful selection of scrolls, rosettes, newels, and panels, and all the hardware you would need to put together the wrought iron hand rail or porch rail to enchance the look of your home. Just look at all these designs:

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I love this type of newel post

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This reminds me of my mother’s wrought iron porch rails

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I am thinking of ordering this panel to hang on my wall. It is just so beautiful!

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If you have been thinking of updating your porch or stairs with a nostalgic look, go take a look at their website today!

Dickie’s Loose Fit Cargo Pants For Men

dickies loos fit cargo pants If your husband is like mine, he is a jeans wearing kind of guy. He never owned a pair of “dress pants” in his life until our daughter got married two years ago. I never saw him in anything but jeans.  It has been hard to find anything he would wear that is bit more formal looking than jeans. These Dickie’s Loose Fit Cargo Pants for men are not exactly what I would call dress pants, but do look better than jeans for the rare occasions that he needs to be a bit more dressed up. While they are casual, if he pairs them with a button up shirt and a blazer, he can look quite spiffy!

Dickies has been in business since 1922, and here is what they say about their brand on their website:

Through its dedication to innovation and continual customer contact, Williamson-Dickie Mfg. Co. has transformed itself from a small bib overall company to the largest work wear manufacturer in the world. Sold in every state in the U.S., Dickies now offers a broad spectrum of work garments ranging from work pants and work shirts to denim jeans and women’s work wear. Since its beginnings in 1922, every piece of Dickies work wear has stood for the quality, toughness, and pride that embodies the spirit of the American worker.

Dickies work wear is durable, and lasts quite a long time. They also have Big & Tall sizes, which is great because in addition to not wanting to wear anything but jeans, my husband has a hard time finding pants large enough to fit him.

 

Schär Gluten Free Ladyfingers

I found this package of Schär Gluten Free Ladyfingers at a local grocery store, and decided to give them a try. These cookies were sort of “stiff” when I took them out of the package, but they turned out to be soft and crumbly. I used them to make a strawberry shortcake:

They were easy to break in half, and when covered with the strawberries and juice, they absorbed the liquid quite well.

A dollop of Cool Whip completed the shortcake. My non-gluten free husband did not particularly like these cookies, as they had a somewhat “lemony” flavor to them, and I agree with him on that point.

It could be that we are used to using a shortbread type cookie to make strawberry shortcake, but we both found these cookies less than satisfactory. I am going to use the rest of the package to make banana pudding to see if we like that any better. I will come back and edit this post when I do.

Schar Gluten Free Table Crackers

The other day when I was in Kanab, Utah, I was delighted to find these gluten free Table Crackers on the shelf at Honey’s Jubilee. It has been almost two years since I found that box of Biscotti Con Cioccolato at a little store in Maryland. I still remember the taste of them, but since I have not seen anything of this brand in a store since then, I haven’t had them again. And since they were so good, I decided to buy a box of their Table Crackers.



The next day for lunch, I had a chef salad, served with Schar Gluten Free Table Crackers. The crackers were just crunchy enough, and had a marvelous taste, almost like my pre-gluten free Club Crackers that I loved so much. They hold up to peanut butter, and one of my favorite ways to eat crackers, spread with butter.

I will definitely be buying these again. These were also expensive, at $4.89 for a 7 oz package, but they come in three individually wrapped inner packages.

Schar, whose name has two dots over the “a” that I can not figure out how to put there in this blog, has a wide variety of products. These include breads, pasta, flour, snacks, cookies and more. With two out of two that I have tried being top notch products, I won’t hesitate to try others if I find them on a grocery shelf somewhere.