Home Security

Is there a need for us to spend money  for a home  security? With our declining economy we should tighten our belt and had to think if a huge purchase is really practical. But on the other side we all knew that home invasion, home robbery, broke in is very rampant now a days. Of course, we all love to sleep at night safe and sound but if we learned that our neighboring areas had this problem we had this thought of "what if it will happen to us"? Well my friend called home security Pelham the other day because they are going for a long vacation and they like to be at peace when they are having fun in another country. At the same time when she learned that Direct TV had this bonus offer when you order she didn't hesitate to called them immediately. It would be their first tv provider and she can't wait to be back home because she knew that she could find the movies that she wanted to watch. I told her for now just take time with the vacation and to know that her house is well secured no time to worry, just had fun!!!

Dipped apples with Peppermint chips

Thanks to Wm Rowe The holiday season is one of the best times to get some amazing tasting treats. One of my all time favorite treats during the Christmas season are dipped apples that have peppermint chips scattered onto the sticky coating. Many people may think of dipped apples as an autumn feast, but they're actually big for Christmas as well. Especially if they have peppermint chips on them! The last time I saw these for sale, I was watching an advertisement for them on my Direct TV. I wound up purchasing some of them to enjoy at home. I actually tried making these myself once. You take green apples and dip them in caramel. Before the caramel hardens, you take peppermint chips and sprinkle them onto the apple. Peppermint chips are similar to chocolate chips except they taste like peppermints and are white with red swirls. The apples came out pretty good, but I still enjoy buying them from professional candy makers. The professionals know exactly what to use and what tastes good, and their apples usually taste better than the ones I come out with. It was still a fun project to do at home though! Once in awhile, I'll give the apples out as a gift for the holiday season. I love the looks on peoples faces when I give them a large and delicious-looking apple that they can just sink their teeth into. The peppermint adds a hint of Christmas to this otherwise autumn-y treat.

Canadian Fishing Trip

Guest post written by Joseph Finch

I was watching my Direct tv one Saturday morning, and saw a fishing show about Ontario that was really interesting. I wouldn't have thought that I would be so drawn into the show and so entranced by the destination that I would spend the next few days planning a fantasy vacation in my head that would turn into a reality. Sitting around at work, I found a fishing lodge in Ontario that offered a great deal, and started to just browse for tickets, just to see if anything was a good deal. I found a site that advertised in commercials and they had a phenomenal deal for flights. I had vacation time, but nothing planned because vacations can be so expensive sometimes. I called a few work buddies of mine up and we decided that it would be a great time, and a good way to use our vacation time up, as none of us had anything else to use it for! It was a blast! I've never pulled so many fish out of a lake! It was a great time! My buddies asked me how I thought to go there- I just smiled and said that I just saw it on a TV show and thought it'd be a good idea. It sure was! I've never taken a vacation that was so much fun.

Ni Hao Kai Lan

This is a guest blog from  Julia Richey

Ni Hao Kai Lan is a great new show that comes on direcTV all the time. My girls and I like to watch it because it teaches a completely different language than most of the other shows that come on. Even though Spanish is a widely used language in the US, I prefer for my kids to know something different and Kai Lan follows along in Dora’s footsteps, but teaches Chinese words instead.

Aside from that, I like this show for my children because it’s cute and it appeals to them solely based on the fact that they are young and they are girls. This show is also educational in that it teaches children vital social skills. In conjunction with other educational programming, Ni Hao Kai Lan is a bombshell and it can teach children very important survival skills as well as manners and etiquette.

This show is very colorful and has cheerful characters that seem very believable. The message in each show is different and it’s always important to remember certain aspects of the show so that the viewer can interact with questions the characters ask. Ni Hao Kai Lan has excellent values and manners and is always teaching important words in Chinese to its viewers, which is a great thing to have close at hand. If I didn’t know any better, I would say my kids would watch this show all day.