Jeremy Herndon Blog

The house that I grew up in had the best looking Window Box Planters in the neighborhood. My mother worked hard keeping those Decorative Planters in their best shape and condition possible. She had colorful flowers planted in them most of the year, they just seemed to grow well and keep their shape and color right up to the end of the season.

I have a few Indoor Planters around my place that seem to do pretty well. But I can’t seem to have much luck with an Outdoor Planter no matter how hard I try. I’ve seen some real nice High End Planters online that I’d really like to try and use to have here and the prices are pretty decent right now as well.

I’ll keep looking around a bit longer and see what I can come up with. I’ve got plenty of time to find the right one(s) for the right price. With this heat wave and drought going on there are a lot of sad looking yards out there.

I’m tired of iced tea. Sodas just don’t cut it any more. Beer is best but you can’t go around drinking that day in and day out right? I used to really enjoy Kool Aid when I was a kid, so I decided to pick up a few packages of the flavors that they have these days and I have to say that I’m really enjoying them, a nice change.

Next spring will be my father’s 70th birthday.  My brothers and sisters have decided that we want to surprise him with a a special surprise party and give him a gift that he has always dreamt about – a trip to Myrthle Beach.  He’s been retired for five years now, and he’s dreamt about playing on the Myrtle Beach golf courses as one of the retirement fantasies that just haven’t come to pass yet.

My wife and I have been trying to review the many different Myrtle Beach golf packages on the http://www.myrtlebeachgolf.net web page to see which ones might be the best ones to get.  We all agreed to split the cost equally, but we still need to keep a close eye on the cost.  And we want to make sure that our mother has plenty to do while our father is out on the course.

We also need to figure out if any of us should accompany them, or if we should try to make it a romantic getaway for the two of them.  After all, maybe booking some spa time for our mother while our father is out on the golf course would be the perfect touch!

One of the things that has disappointed about during the past few years is how many of my favorite restaurants no longer offer salad bars. Many of the restaurants have simply closed down. There are only two local restaurants anymore that even have salad bars, and I go to them as frequently as I can. My wife doesn’t usually eat salad; she tells me that she wants to save room for dessert! But last night we went out to eat and she decided to order the salad bar with her meal and she ordered her appetizer and dessert to go!

She certainly made up a huge salad! She ended up taking half of her entree home as a leftover, too! She said that was going to be a really good lunch for her to eat sometime in the next couple of days! I don’t think I’ve seen her so happy in a long time, bringing so much food home to eat later! She said that any time she can eat food that good without having to heat up the kitchen and wash up pots and pans is a good thing!

My wife and I like to think that we are not stupid.  We’ve signed up for Online Trading for the stocks we own, and we each have IRA Accounts. We try to be conservative, however, with our Stock Trading activities. We’ve been burned a little bit a couple of times, and we really can’t afford to lose very much money.

The most confusing part about owning stocks (to me) is how to go about reporting the profits, losses, and dividends on our income taxes! I’m really glad that we have a great software program that keeps track of all of that. I’d never be able to keep it all straight if I had to keep track of it on paper! And I’m more than happy to let my wife take care of that portion of our financial life! I tell my wife that’s why I keep her around – to do the bookkeeping! (And her cooking’s pretty good too!)