Ottoman Storage Bench This ottoman storage bench is so easy to put together and great to store many items. When the bench is put together, it measures about 15″ square. When I opened the box, it included the padded top, the base that folds flat and a bottom piece. It’s so easy to put together, I just popped the sides of the base out to make a square, dropped the bottom piece inside the square and then place the top on, that’s it, so simple! I like the padded
TODAY IN HISTORY Today in history is bringing me back to 1969. Some of you were not even born yet but I was 20 years old and remember hearing about what was called an “Incident on Chappaquiddick Island”. On July 18, 1969, Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy was hosting a party with his cousin on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. One of the attendees was Mary Jo Kopechne who worked with the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign. Robert Kennedy was Ted Kennedy’s older brother, and following his
TOSHIBA EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE I had a crisis the other day when my SD card wouldn’t read my phone and I was afraid I would lose all 4,000 plus photos. I didn’t want to transfer that many to my laptop so I knew I needed to come up with another plan. After checking a variety of external hard drives, I found this Toshiba portable external hard drive with 1 TB of storage. I choose the royal blue and it’s about the size of my phone! I have an old dinosaur
Hummingbird Solar Lights I love to add lights to our garden and these hummingbird solar lights are a perfect addition to those I have. I like using solar lights because it saves on electricity and it’s safer than having electrical cords around the yard. It’s easy to set these lights up, I just pushed the two sections of the stakes together then attached the pointed end to the stakes and push in the ground. Each stake has a small solar panel attached to it and will charge during the
BLOGS I READ Each day of the July Ultimate Blog Challenge, a topic is suggested to write about. Today it is about the BLOGS I READ. It was suggested to pick five, but for me that was so hard since I read so many great ones. All of them are so interesting and to pick “top blogs” is impossible for me. So I picked ten of the bloggers that I enjoy daily but I also had to pick my most favorite of all, the one that is tops on my