John Edward Friends

Guest post from: Natalie Walter

After weighing the benefits of a home security system, we decided that we would have one installed. They came this morning to put it in and were in and out in a hurry. It didn’t take them long at all. Only two hours flat. They showed me how to use all of the functions in that time period too. After they left, I headed to the grocery store. I was trying to get everything ready for New Year’s. We are going to visit my sister who lives about four hours away. I told her that I would do all the cooking (she can’t cook to save her life). I picked up all of the spices to take with us that I know that she would have. I am going to cook a ham, acre peas, and greens. If you eat peas and greens on New Year’s day, it means that you are going to have a year of good luck and money. I’m glad that we have a new alarm system this weekend. Now I can visit without having to worry about the house!

Guest post written by Leonard Walton

Each and every year, we like to decorate our home with Christmas things on the day after Thanksgiving. Well, I handle the outside of our house because we put a whole bunch of lights on the outside of our home and in our yard. We don’t just put them on the house but we also have all kinds of lighted yard decorations too.

We have a pretty big yard and all kinds of lighted decorations, so I always get my son and son-in-law to help me put all of them up. My son thought that this year he would help me out by finding some new ideas for the decorations and while he was online he saw some info on Sears Pittsburgh. We need some replacement windows for our home and we’re going to use them for them.

he did come up with some pretty good new ideas for our exterior Christmas lights, like wrapping the light cord around the branches of the trees instead of just throwing lights up in them. It looks a lot nicer that way.

Contribution by Paula Gonzales

I had to take my dog to the vet today. There were a few things that were concerning me. First, since we moved his skin had started to break out and he was loosing hair. He had patches of redness on his skin. They looked like they hurt, but he wasn’t acting like they did. Also, when he sleeps, he snores so loud that I thought I was going to be on the phone with ADT MONITORING because it was so loud, I was afraid that he was going to set the alarm off! When I took him to the vet, he immediately knew what the problem was. He identified the skin problem but also said that the snoring could be because of hypothyroidism ( I didn’t even know dogs got this!). After his blood work came back, he did have it. It explained his weight gain, skin problem, and snoring. I am hoping that the medicine he is on clears up the snoring first, because I can hardly get any sleep! Who knew a dog snored louder than a person?