PROMISES TREATMENT CENTERS

If you are a caring person and have a friend or loved one that is fighting a losing battle with drugs or alcohol you most definitely want to get them the proper help. I have found a website that offers treatment for both and located in a beautiful setting in either Malibu or West Los Angeles. It is called Promises Treatment Center and you can find them at http://www.promises.com/. Log on and see what they have to offer and take a tour of each of their facilities. The nice thing about their center is that they limit the number of residential clients to 24. This way they can give each patient the care and attention to help them succeed.
You must keep in mind that a program is only as good as the staff working within that program, and at Promises they have a world-class team of treatment professionals that can provide private rehab to bring success to your loved one.
Many staff members have personal experiences with drug or alcohol abuse and are active in their own recovery of an addiction. These staff members know what others are going through and have the knowledge and experience to guide our clients to recovery.
Promises takes you away from the day to day life of "using friends" so you won't be influenced by them. Once you are there you will see that private rehab is best. They also have Extended care treatment, day treatment, outpatient treatment and sober living.
Take the step now and visit the website, http://www.promises.com/, look at what they have to offer and call 866-871-3149 and talk to a specialist who can help you decide what is right for you.

GARAGE SALE PET PEEVES

With the garage sale season coming to an end I reflect back on the many I have gone to. People if you have a sale, please put something worth selling out there. You need more that one small table to make a lot of money and that table being filled with old glasses from jelly jars or small chipped figurines. Put something worth while out there. Secondly things in a box look good but don't try and sell it for what you paid for it 5 years ago. It may look good BUT IT'S USED. One can probably buy it new at Wal-Mart for just a couple of dollars more. People are looking for bargains not retail prices. Garage sales are not meant to be Macy's. Price things and clothes accordingly, I've seen kids dresses on hangers for $10 and $20. This is ridiculous.
Please keep in mind that when the sale is over, go around and collect the signs that led people to your sale. I can't begin to tell you how many signs I followed only to find out there is no sale there. It was probably the week or month before. Also write large enough so we can read the sign, writing in pen just doesn't work. Don't advertise in the paper HUGE garage sale and have nothing to sell. If you can, get your neighbors to go in on a sale with you. This will produce more items to sell. Tool's are always a big seller if they are priced right.
Next year keep some of these things in mind and have a good garage sale.

LET IT END

Every day for the last couple of months or so there have been blogs and hundreds of e-mails about our presidential candidates. Each blog or e-mail accusing them of saying this or saying that. These e-mails and blogs may be a release of anger toward one or both of the candidates but look at it this way. Most people have made up their mind who they are going to vote for. If they are a die hard Republican or Democrat there is no way these writings will change a persons mind. Obama touts that he will bring change. Doesn't every elected President bring change in one way or another? I'm sure this would include McCain also. At this point in time forget the parties and vote for the person you think will do the better job and not try to change our Constitution. And for God's sake don't turn this thing in a racial contest. Choose the right man.

GOOD FUN WEEKEND

Gotta tell you, spent time with in-laws this weekend and had a great time. Weather was perfect, being in the low to mid 80". No rain and no clouds to hide the sun. The in-laws I am referring to are my brother-in-law Bob and sister-in-law Dottie. They live in Hoffman Estates, Illinois so I don't get to see them very often. We do talk on the phone but that is not like seeing them in person. They arrived Friday afternoon and we left for my camper around 5:00. By the time we arrived it was dark because where the camper is, is one hour ahead of our time. They had not been there since 2004 or 5 and they wanted to see what changes had taken place in that period of time. We ate out that night, came back to the camper and watched a stupid Steven Segal movie. I do mean stupid. I do swear that his acting gets worse and worse to the point that he should just give up.

Saturday we got up and had a light breakfast of coffee and banana nut bread that Dottie made and we decided to go to Amish Acres in Nappannee Indiana.

They had Amish Acres decorated for fall and Halloween. Here is a picture of Bob looking to see what was cooking in the pot. It turned out to be apple butter. We wandered around looking in the craft gift shop and checking out the displays outdoors where Dottie found some treasures such as a small crafted pumpkin and a gourd she plans on cutting the top off and putting flowers in it. Couldn't leave Amish Acres without taking a picture of Bob and Dottie in front of one of the beautiful decorations on hand. From there we

headed for Borkholder's Dutch Village to look at crafts and antiques. When our legs gave out we headed back to the camper for lunch and a golf cart ride. Dinner was ham steak on the grill, sweet potato, carrots and tomatos. When night came we joined Don and Lorie around their campfire and had good conversation and laughs. A real treat was the cheese cake that Lorie offered us. Great stuff. Around 12:00 we called it a night. Sunday morning brought a breakfast of ham steak and eggs and toast. Toast made and buttered by Bob. Another golf cart ride was required to the dump and then around 12:00 we headed home, but not before we stopped at Culver's for lunch. Arrived home around 2. Bob and Dottie left and I settled down to watch the last of the Bear's game. What an exciting ending. To bad it was not in the Bear's favor. As I said, it was a great weekend.

THE PUMPKIN PATCH

Yesterday Delaney had only a half day of school. What could I do with her for the other half day. In know! lets go to the pumpkin patch that has a petting zoo. We did. When we got there it was overcast but warm and Delaney headed straight for the petting zoo. The had chickens, pheasant, lama's, goats, rabbits, donkeys and more. There was one goat who had his head stuck outside the fence, it was his horns that kept him from getting his head back in. He was like that for almost half an hour but he finally figured it out. There machines, that for a quarter you could buy food to feed to the animals. I didn't know that lama's could spit, I know camels do and I did find out at the expense of a little girl that lama's do too. He did quite a job on her. It wasn't funny to her but it was to everyone else. There was a giant pumpkin where kids could go in a bounce around at the cost of $2.00. This was also a farm and there were fruits and vegetables for sale at reasonable prices. Delaney picked out a pumpkin she liked and for $5.35 we took it home with us. There were scarecrows around so you could take pictures with them. Delaney picked out her scarecrow buddy and you can see she cuddled right up to him. The overcast day turned into a rainy day so it was time to leave and go get something to eat. So we headed for her favorite place which is McDonalds and this is where we filled our tummy's.