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I fell in love with my first kitchen. Back then I was living inside a small apartment, but the previous tenant definitely had a good eye for interior design and kitchen equipment. She left in a hurry and left most of her stuff for me to enjoy and use. The kitchen furniture was so useful and versatile that I did not hesitate to take them with me when it came my turn to move to a bigger place.

Three moves and ten full years later, my husband and I now have our own home. It is spacious and allows for the perfect amount of wind and sunshine. I’m dreaming of setting up the perfect kitchen here, but I know it will be a few more months before I have my dream kitchen. The kind of kitchen equipment and furniture I want are on the high end. It is costly and some are hard to come by – they have to be ordered overseas. I also need to save up for most of them.

However, I know it will all be worth it in the end. Having a dream kitchen that can hold its own against a professional one will make me – as well as my family and friends – very happy and fulfilled. For now, it doesn’t hirt to window shop and keep the dream alive!

We haven’t been here in Dallas very long but I’m already loving the neighborhood and our new home. Not only is it big and spacious, it is also very airy and has a lived-in look and feel to it. My husband on the other hand, has concerns of his own. He says the house looks to open, specially in the pool area. I don’t exactly know what too open means, I thought it looked perfect. But since he’s the one in charge of security and safety of everyone inside the house, including our two adorable dogs – I trusted his instincts.

One fine morning I woke up to a knock on the door. I was surprised to see a uniformed man who introduced himself as from the DFW Fence Company. At first I had no idea what he was and what he was doing in front of my door, but a light bulb suddenly appeared and I realized that my dear sweet husband has called in professionals. What better way to close off a space that is too open than to box it in with a fence, right?

I was not exactly happy about it so I made an excuse to leave the house and shop whole the men worked in the back. I just hope that the house will still be pretty as a picture when I come back.

The robot age has made manufacturing and industries more advanced and easier to manage and operate. If before, manpower and management was the biggest asset and liability of manufacturing companies, they are now able to find a way around that by automating their operations. Take for example a soda bottling company. As early as 40 years ago, these companies were employing machines for their operations but they were operated and maintained by human personnel. Everything was still monitored and overseen by a human expert.

While the business may have been efficient, it was affected by problems such as absences, tardiness or accidents inside the workplace. The absence of computer machinery also made everything slower and more cumbersome. As a result, they are not able to achieve their set goals most of the time. Things changed with the arrival of companies such as Vector Automation Technologies.

Companies like them heralded the automation of industries with the arrival of computer operated and run machineries. The operations also became large scale with the introduction of robots and robotic equipment. Nowadays, soda bottling plants can run for a full 24 hours every day with only minimal people working the shifts. Computers are at the heart of this technology, but rest assured the products still have some bit of human touch to them.

I am glad that at this day and age finding jobs for disabled people is less difficult than several decades back. Fortunately, people now are much aware of the rights and needs of the disabled.

I am saying this because my husband got into a serious car accident a couple of years ago that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Initially he was also finding it hard to move his arms but after months of therapy he gradually regained control of his upper limbs. I haven’t worked my entire life because my husband had a good job but after the accident I learned to step up and be his support for a change. We both went through a lot but it was a good thing that our church elders helped us to get our lives back on track by finding a job for my husband. They directed us to several websites that offered employment opportunities for disabled people. Given my husband’s experience and skill, it did not take him long to find a new job.

I couldn’t have survived that experience with a sane mind without the support of the community that is why I have also committed several hours a week to help out some church activities.

I have nothing but praise and admiration for the guys who run the site www.buckleystriperguide.com! I have arranged to hire their services last summer to celebrate my dad’s 60th birthday. He has always been a fishing enthusiast. However, none of us children shared his interest in the sport. He used to take us fishing when were all kids, but my siblings and I were more interested in playing and swimming than paying attention to what dad was trying to teach us.

When we became teenagers, we still went with him but we mostly stayed in the cabins and cooked or just enjoyed the vacation time. Dad stopped fishing a decade ago when his liver problems prevented him from going on extended trips alone. He had always dreamt of conquering Lake Texoma and wanted to catch their famed striped bass. On his 60th birthday, all of us children agreed that this was the best gift we could give our old man.

Since none of us are able anglers, I was told to organize the trip and hire fishing guides to help us find our way around Lake Texoma. I hired www.buckleystriperguide.com and was very happy with how they made my dad’s birthday fishing expedition a very memorable occasion.

Being an intense home gardening enthusiast can be quite an accomplishment. I’ve been gardening for 20 years and I have to say that the best part about tilling soil and caring for flowering plants is the journey you take to reach that end goal of spring when all your blooms are beautifully showcasing their true wonder in different bouquets, aromas and colors. When I decided to move into a bigger home so that I could take up more lawn space do do some landscape gardening, i promised myself I would put a fountain in my backyard. I immediately drew up some plans and decided on two Dallas stone fountains which would balance out both ends of the yard, culminating in cream and red rose beds.

This plan was easier said than done. It took me about two months before I found the right home gardening contractors to install the fountains. It was worth it in the end because now, my yard is the envy of every neighbor and many of my home owners association members has even asked me in person to help decorate their backyard. Dallas Stone Fountains are truly one of the most beautiful landscape decor you can install in your backyard or garden.

One of the great things about being a retired individual is that you have so much time to devote to things that you’ve always wanted to do but never had the opportunity or time to do so when you were still on the corporate heading. The first thing that I wanted to revisit in my life as I reached my retirement age was my passion for decorating.

I promised myself that I was going to create a beautiful sun room as my first home improvement project to celebrate my prime years. I went to crate and barrel looking for ideas when I found this leather sofas San Antonio style made of black color. I knew that i had to purchase it and make it the centerpiece inspiration for my sun room. I wasn’t mistaken because three months after, that same leather sofas San Antonio is sitting in the center of my sun room with white faux fur cloth as its seat cover. I took my entire inspiration for  the renovation from the leather sofas San Antonio and i was happy that I did because leather chic was easier to channel with it being the focal piece of the room.

For our 20th anniversary I decided to surprise my wife by creating a romance sanctuary in our backyard. It was the perfect timing because she had to go to her sisters for a couple of weeks and make it back just in time for our anniversary party, which gave me so much time to plan and figure out how to recapture the passion in our marriage my coming up with a romance boudoir.

I started with a beautiful backdrop, some trellises with roses ,a big day bed in the middle of a limestone and marble floor plan and of course to set the ultimate romance mood, a outdoor patio fireplace. I had to hire a professional contractor to get the job done in time but I have to say that It was all worth it especially when i saw the look in my wife’s eyes the first time she saw what I did to our patio. She said that at first she thought she got lost and stumbled into the neighbors house but after she saw me she knew that I went through so much trouble to make the romantic lounge for her. These days, the romance area is our favorite spot where we spend every night cuddling to a warm fire and gazing through the stars.

When I decided to retire from 20 years of working in the textile industry I was so bent on renovating the house that I literally went into a decor rampage. My very first project was to remodel the kitchen. It had been in a state of antiquity,having the same rustic look since my great grandmothers, and I wanted to give it a face lift to bring it into the 20th century.

The first thing that went to my mind was how to set the mood for the kitchen area, ambiance was everything and It was imperative that I find the appropriate kitchen lighting solutions to fit my concept or the renovation would be failed.I did a lot of research until i stumbled on a really good website that offered several lighting fixture techniques and how to effectively play with lighting to get the desired mood or effect in a kitchen. I have to say that picking that first kitchen lighting fix really paved the way for a beautiful and elegant kitchen that I am seriously proud of. Every time I stare into the finished designs and accents for my new kitchen i still cant believe that I was all my doing.

My family is the outdoorsy type. Instead of having soirees or house parties our concept of bonding would be to drive inter coast into a  state park in our mobile home and just experience nature as God intended. For my parents 40th wedding anniversary they decided to surprise us with a trip to the Amazon for the whole family.

We were all so excited and couldn’t stop thinking about it until we actually got there. It was every bit the fantasy that we had and more, with lush tropics exotic animals and a breathtaking scenery that was perfect for outdoor living.Things turned a bit more exciting than expected when our dog spike decided to wander off and got lost in the woods. Thankfully my parents came prepared and installed a GPS container tracking device on him so we were able to find his location in a matter of hours. Our dog being lost aside, I have to say that spending time with my family on a truly exotic vacation getaway is one of the best experiences I ever had, and that GPS container tracking was really cool. I would love to do the same for my future wife and kids.