How is your garden doing this year? If you are having trouble with any plants there is a website that will help you diagnose and repair them before they die.

Check out Gardeners.com

Grandparents love pictures of their grandchildren. Microsoft offers you 51 Calendar Templates to use in Word. Take your pick, insert your pictures, print it out, wrap it and you are done!

Word Templates
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT103589901033.aspx?av=ZWD000

October is a great month to introduce your family to hiking. There are beautiful views and one great plus over hiking in the Spring, no mosquitoes!

Finding new and appropriate and interesting locations can be a challenge. Here is a site to help you to find the right hike in the right location. You can find routes by town or location such as White Mountains. You can choose by distance, key word, or rating.

There is something for everyone. Besides hikes, there are walks, bike rides, commutes, bike rides, skating, kayak/canoeing, running and swimming for next year!


Mapmyhike.com

Could your yard use an overhaul? Will you be buying tools this year tom improve your yard? If so, check out this week’s recommended website – yardcare.com.

Yardcare.com will tell you how to create and maintain a beautiful lawn with the least amount of effort. Their experts tell you how to choose the right seed. They also offer helpful advice for selecting the right tools - the first time.

They will tell you the best kind of lawnmower to use to turn soil that attracts moles to soil that resists them. Take a moment to look at their ideas. It could save you time, effort and money.

Yardcare.com

Here are two websites that will assist you in teaching your children the meaning of Memorial Day. The first site suggests simple activities that will teach children of all ages. The second site offers a greater selection of activities from which to choose.

Don’t miss the opportunity this holiday offers to teach your children to be thankful for the sacrifices of others.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2123481_teach-children-memorial-day.html

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/memorial-day/

Here are a couple of websites that will help celebrating Mom be even more fun than last year!

The first site will help dads and kids express their thanks for mom in new and different ways. There are several cute card ideas there.

The second site has Mother’s Day games, sayings of mothers, Mother’s Day stories and much more!


http://www.daniellesplace.com/html/mothersday.html

http://www.creativeyouthideas.com/blog/announcements/mothers_day_ideas_3.html

Do you ever wish that you had a faster way to locate just the right photo that you know is somewhere on your computer? Are you like some people who take lots of digital pictures but have trouble organizing them? Cooliris can help you.

Cooliris is simply the fastest and most enjoyable way to speed search through photos on your computer, facebook, and picasa. It will speed up your search of google images, youtube and more. They provide a list of sites that are supported.

Cooliris turns your pictures into a 3d wall of photos you can scroll through rapidly to locate just the right one. Take a moment to check it out at,

http://www.cooliris.com/product/

We all want to save money on groceries. But searching for coupons and going through grocery circulars can take a lot of time. With multiple time demands we sometimes (often) skip on the savings.

Here is a website that helps you find out how to save money on food quickly.

MyGroceryDeals.com

There is a free side and a membership side. You can decide which best meets your personal needs.

Here is some of what this site offers.

• Collects store circulars so you can see what is on sale
• View deals by category
• View deals by store
• Create a starter list
• Search for a product

Just type in Salmon today and you find out that Shaws has it for $4.99 a lb until April 16. Or type in Asparagus and find that Shaws has it for 1.49 lb until April 16.

I don’t normally shop there but by using my Shaws card and dropping by I can have two of my favorite foods at a considerable savings.

Try it!

Would you like to learn more about Blue Whales? National Geographic brings you pictures and insights into the life of the largest animal that has ever inhabited planet earth. Copy and paste the link below into your browser.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/03/blue-whales/brower-text

Here is a piece of helpful software that can help you diagnose the health of your hard drive. And it is free.

Have you ever wondered how healthy the hard drive is on you computer? Here is a utility that will tell you.

HDD Health is a full-featured failure-prediction agent for machines using Windows 95, 98, NT, Me, 2000 and XP. Sitting in the system tray, it monitors hard disks and alerts you to impending failure. The program uses Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) built into all new hard disks, and can predict failures on your hard drives. A host of alerting features include email, local pop-up messages, net messages, and event logging, while using no system resources.

You can get a free copy at: http://www.panterasoft.com/ by scrolling to the bottom of the page.

Teaching Kids About $

Why not use the uncertain economic times to teach your children about money.


Planet Orange uses games to teach the value of money, making a budget, understanding credit, building savings, investing and setting goals for the future. Cedric and Amy will guide your children to Moneyland, South Spending, the Republic of Savings, and Investor Islands.

The site says it is for 4th – 8th graders but there is information there that adults can use as well. You will find the links page especially useful for yourself.

http://www.orangekids.com/home.htm


The USMINT uses games to teach any child who can read about money. You will find cartoons that teach how money is made, a time machine that teaches about our currency through history and more.

http://www.usmint.gov/kids/

Have you ever had stuff you wanted to give away but were not sure who would want it? Have you ever had something you wished you could get for free but did not know who would give it to you?

Well Freecycle may be the answer to your problems. Freecycle is an organization that connects you to the person who wants that treasure in your basement and connects you with the person who has that item you really desire but do not wish to buy.

Here is how frecycle works. A woman needed a daybed for her mother. Deb and I had a daybed we wanted to give away. The woman shared her need on freecycle and I read it. I contacted her and she came and picked up the bed. Deb and I wanted a different Christmas tree. A woman wanted to give her tree away. She listed it on freecycle and we contacted her. I drove down Page Road and picked it up.

Freecycle is an organization that has groups all over the USA. There is one locally in Concord. You can check it out and see if Freecycle is for you at freecycle.org.

Could you use a little inspiration, a little pick-me-up? Take a moment to meet Nick Vujicic. Nick was born without legs or arms. Find out how he has touched the lives of thousands. And, let his life touch yours!

www.lifewithoutlimbs.org