Karen’s Opinion

How many of you use your phone to check the time? I forget that my phone tells me the time and I’d have to dig it out of my purse so that is not the best way for me! I like a good old fashioned watch. In fact, I feel panicky when I look at my wrist and my watch is not there. My watch is part of me!

I think of my watch as a necessary piece of fashionable jewelry. Just like my glasses, I like a fashionable watch. I have found that Blue Dial.com has the best selection of beautiful ladies watches at the best prices. I like to have a heavy duty watch like the ESQ Classic Sport II to wear every day. I am hard on watches so I appreciate the brushed stainless steel case and double locking clasp. I am always smacking the face of my watch on things like the inside of the washing machine so I especially like that this watch has a scratch resistant mineral crystal.

When I attend church or go to a wedding, it is fun to have a fancier watch like one from the ESQ Ladies Fusion Collection. It has a beautiful Rose-Gold toned steel case and rose-gold-tone sub-dials with sweeping hands. A little bling is nice for those special occasions!

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I was thinking about all the games that children play on the computer and wondered, do kids play games like I played when I was little?

I loved to play jacks. The game was played with little metal pieces that were thrown on the ground. Wherever they landed made the job of picking them up more intriguing. The object was to bounce a ball, pick up as many jacks as possible before catching the ball as it came down from the air.

What games do you remember playing as a child?

Have you watched any of the episodes of Coupon Moms? While I do think these ladies take their couponing to extremes, I am inspired by their quest to save money. They are probably already aware of Savings.com coupons. I am happy to have recently discovered this website. I have always been one to check out the online coupon websites so I have some knowledge as to which sites have the best coupons and link codes for savings.

Savings.com has coupons for just about everything you could imagine. I was so happy to see that they even have a coupon code to save 20% at Vera Bradley. Christmas is coming and my daughter in-law loves Vera Bradley bags.

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Savings.com is also geared to the local economy. I clicked on the local tab and discovered I can buy restaurant gift certificates for two very popular restaurants in my town and that the gift certificates are half the cost of what I would pay just walking into their venue. I am getting some great gift ideas!

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I have put out thistle seed for the finches all summer long. Just recently, they have gone crazy with their eating habits. They might need prolotherapy Arizona if they keep pigging out like they have been.

It is inexpensive to feed finches and I have so much fun watching them boot each other off the feeder perches. I don’t know how they decide their pecking order but they do a lot of pushing. LOL

Most recently, I have found that they like my purple cone flowers. All of my flowers are drying out which makes the seeds more attractive to the birds. It is so funny to look out across my flower bed and see the flowers bouncing up and down. Finches have agile feet to grip the stems of seed heads while feeding. They carry and spread the seeds across my yard causing sprouts of flowers in some strange places.

Doves seem to enjoy eating the castoff seeds that fall from the feeder. Is it true that doves always travel in pairs?

My hummingbird food went to waste this year. I put it out late in the season and by the time the hummingbirds found my feeder, it seemed that they had no interest. I’ll have to remember to put it out right away come spring.

I have enjoyed watching the birds this summer and fall. I hate to see winter arrive. I’ll bet the birds do too.