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New DRAIN-OFF patio protector keeps patio dry from potted plant drip water...

By Anonymous

Fresno, CA February 12, 2004--Multiple Products Line Introduces New Plant DRAIN-OFF Patio Protector. DRAIN-OFF patio protector catches potted plant drip water to keep patios, wood decks and walkways dry and stain free. DRAIN-OFF patio protector also provide conditions necessary to keep potted plants healthy, presentable, and safe from hazardous planter drip water.

The results include no more wet, stained, patios or wood decks from potted plant drip water. Eliminate potted plant drip water to help prevent West Niles Virus. NEW! There is no other product like this on the market. Features: Eliminates patio or pool deck stains caused by planter drip water: All drip water drains off immediately as it drops into the drip tray: No drip water left to stagnate and breed harmful bacteria: Plant roots no longer stand in drip water:

DRAIN-OFF patio protectors have a concave bottom to force excess drain water to the inside perimeter of the tray where the water drains out through a 1/2 inch round drain spout. The spout extends outward from the outside bottom edge of the tray where a nylon tube is attached to carry drip water to a flowerbed or yard area, leaving patio surfaces clean and dry.

Inside the round saucer are three raised ridges in a pie-shaped arrangement. The ridges are elevated in height extending from the center of the drip tray to near the inside wall of the tray. The ridges are left away from the inside wall to assure that drip water reaches the drain spout. Additionally, the raised ridges keep smaller pots, ones that sit inside the drip tray, elevated above the concave bottom keeping the pot from resting on the high center of the tray.

The outside bottom of the drip tray has broken 1/8 inch high raised ridges that encircles the perimeter to hold the tray elevated off the patio surface. The 1/8" raised ridges leaves a space under the tray for cleaning purposes. The broken ridges allows hose water to flush debris from underneath the tray. Also, air space underneath the tray assures that excess water quickly dries off to eliminate mold and other bacteria.

DRAIN-OFF patio protector will accommodate any size planter. Small pots rest on the raised ridges inside the tray and larger pots will sit on top of the drip tray. For over-sized planters, such as those with small trees, etc., place pot elevator feet under the outside bottom perimeter of the planter and slide DRAIN-OFF patio protector underneath to catch and drain off drip water. DRAIN-OFF patio protectors are only 1" in height, they are shrunk wrapped and a 12" nylon drain tube is included inside the package.

For further information contact Multiple Products at 559-323-9141.

CONTACT:
Doyle W. Eakin
Multiple Products
4974 N. Fresno St., #162
Fresno, CA 93726
Tel: 559-323-9141
http://www.81x.com/multipleproduct/dwe

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The Virtual Garden

By Bob Osgoodby

When planting a garden, or doing a bit of landscaping, there are many factors which must considered. Size of plants, colors, hardiness, and need for sunlight and water, all come into play. If any mistakes are made along the way, the garden will not flourish.

There are many parallels between starting a business and planting a garden. In fact, being in an online business is like planting a virtual garden. If any of the steps are overlooked, like a poorly designed garden, the business will not do well.

There are basically three things that those in an online business must do.

First - you must pick your program carefully. If you get involved with the wrong one, you will not reap the desired harvest. Just because a program has been around a long time, does not necessarily mean you will achieve success. Some of the affiliate programs on the web are overplayed and tired. You should also avoid the programs that make money mainly by garnering new recruits. At some point the new recruits will slow down and the program will go the way of most Ponzi or pyramid schemes.

Secondly, after planting, you have to care for your plants. Advertising is like sunlight, water and fertilizer for your business. A one time or sporadic ad will not get customers.

Exposure, Exposure, Exposure gets the customers. It is a common maxim in advertising that it takes 5 to 7 exposures to an ad to get someone to react. Your copy must also be geared toward your target market. It must be well written, makes an offer that gets someone's attention, and allows immediate feedback. If you are consistent in your advertising, experiment with your copy until you start getting responses. If your add doesn't pull, change it - couldn't be simpler.

Let's stick with exposure for a minute. It takes a dedicated person to place their free classified ads on an ongoing basis. Miss a week here and there and you are committing a big mistake. You are not being consistent.

Consistency means that you advertise in different places, and on a regular basis. Let's face it - any advertising program must use multiple ways to reach their audience. Search out publications that are geared toward your target market, and contract with them on a "long term" basis. Many offer discounts for ongoing ads. When someone sees your ad in different places, they start to pay attention. Enough exposure and they just may contact you for further information.

Which brings us to the third step in your program. If you don't use an auto-responder, you are simply not serious in your advertising efforts. The auto-response presents the details to them about your offer. They not only get your response within minutes, but you get their E-mail address for follow-up purposes. You can get auto-responders from a number of places, but perhaps the simplest is using the Eudora email client. If someone sends an email to a specific address, or with a specific subject line, it can automatically file it in a follow up folder and send a canned response.

I got a check yesterday from a person I never even talked with. She visited our web site and requested additional information, which was sent by our auto-responder. What a great way to do business.

The final step is the actual harvest, and you must have the proper tools. You must have a way to immediately close the deal and for the prospect the make payment. You can use a number of resources including your own merchant account, online checks or a service such as PayPal.

Advertising on the Internet has no magic. Unless it is done properly, however the world will NOT beat a path to your door. You must use the same techniques and procedures that you would use in any offline advertising campaign.

Those that do will have a successful business, and like the Virtual Garden reap a profitable harvest.

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A Family Garden for Nature

By Gayle Olson

Each year we look forward to creating a special habitat for for all of our wild and natural friends. Spring has arrived and we have been busy welcoming the season by preparing the garden for all of our summer visitors.

Anyone can create a garden - even you! When some people think about gardening, they think they need a lot of space or a big back yard. Even if you live in an apartment and have no yard at all, you can still create your own natural space with container gardens or window boxes.

Gardening isn't just for grownups! You can never be too young or too old to build a special place for nature. Would you like to learn how to grow your own garden? Let's get started because there is a lot to learn about creating your special place in nature.

Planning Your Plot

The first step to growing a great garden is planning. You will need to choose a location which receives at least five to seven hours of sunlight each day. Plants like a lot of sunlight to grow!

Next, get permission from your parents or responsible adult. Before agreeing on the location make sure there are no hidden dangers or obstacles beneath the soil. You don't want to risk the danger of having cables or water pipes beneath your plot. A big rock or tree roots could prove to be an unwelcome obstacle.

Once your special adult approves of your location it's time to think about size and shape. Don't try to plan too much your first year. Your garden will require plenty of work and a bit of time. At first a small garden is just right. It will be easier to take care of and it will be a good opportunity to learn about plants and gardens.

Add something new to your garden each year. This way you will have a few new varieties to learn about.

Gardens come in all sorts of shapes including square, rectangle, triangle, circle and even pie-shaped!. Choose one that works best for your yard or compliments existing structures.

Sketch the plot shape in your Garden Journal. Include the approximate size of the garden, and mark which side of your garden faces north. This information will come in handy when you decide the right number of flowers or vegetables to plant.

Now it is time to decide which plants to include in your garden. When choosing your plants pay attention to the type of climate, amount of sunshine and space requirements for the plant. Just because it looks cool or is a vegetable you just love doesn't mean the plant will be happy in your garden!

Seed catalogs, online resources and gardening books are a big help when making your plant list. Decide whether you will be growing annuals, perennials, or both. Annuals (plants that live only one season) grow quickly and come in all sorts of colors and shapes. Perennials (plants that live for several years) bloom year-after-year. We enjoy watching them get bigger and better every year! We prefer a combination of both annuals and perennials.

Make your garden interesting by combining different colors, sizes and shapes of flowers and leaves. If you like, you can paste pictures from catalogs or magazines in your Garden Journal.

Will you be planting seeds or established, young plants from the nursery? Starting from seed is the least expensive. Many varieties can be planted outside as soon as the weather is warm. Not all seeds are easy to start. You can purchase small, established plants which are difficult to start from seed.

We save the seeds from all of the plants in our Garden for Nature. When the seeds have developed we collect them in a big old coffee tin. All the seeds from all the plants mix together. It's the special garden mixture that we use the next year for our garden.

You don't need to have a big yard or a yard at all to create a garden. Container gardens and window boxes are fun too. And they are a LOT less work!

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Return to the Garden of Eden

By seven reader7

intro to the steps of returning to the garden of eden. that perfect place that is self
Return to the Garden of Eden

Everyone has their own idea of what the Garden of Eden was or would be like if only they could see it today. No matter our beliefs, thoughts or ideas about religion we all have some sort of image of what perfection is. And while these thoughts and ideas will be as varied and unique as each of us, the phrase "Garden of Eden" can trigger these thoughts and ideas within us no matter how vague and undefinable they may be.

Return to The Garden of Eden is a series of articles that subscribes to the thought that "self" in our orginal form is this perfection. That Creator in his infinate wisdom did actually create us in his own image. And in doing so gave us each our own personal Garden of Eden in which we could dwell. Where everything is perfect and when we live in the state that we were created (as was his intent) are the image of perfection.

Yet somehow we forgot. Somehow we lost sight of this garden of self. We lost sight of just how unique and special we as individuals are. We became human doings instead of human beings. We seek so badly to find peace, yet we run from it as we run from self. We look to outside things to fill up inside needs and we get hurt. For as we look to another to make us whole we become dependent upon their acceptance of us. We seek to find the place where we belong instead of embrasing our individual spirit. Many of us spend a lifetime searching for the right person instead of striving to become that.

What went wrong? When did we get so lost? And does it really matter? In Return to the Garden of Eden we no longer search for rights and wrongs. We no longer try to remember the source of our dysfunctions in order to find the person to blame. Life and our participation in it is no longer a blame game. Its about healing. Its about returning to self. That special and unique spirit you were orginally. In order to Return to the Garden of Eden often times we need to un-learn a lifetime of unhealthy habits and thinking. We need to re-plow our garden that has become infested with dysfunctional thinking and actions. Expose the roots of all these hurts, pains and fears to the sunlight so they may be seen for what they are and then removed as one would who was preparing a vegtable garden for planting would remove the rocks and weeds. Unhealthy actions are like weeds in the garden. They grow wild and fast choking out all orginal thoughts, ideas and any healthy concepts we may have of self.

The first article in this series is "Where to Plant" will address the most powerful gift that Creator has given us. The one gift that is above all others. As special and unique individual spirits we all have our own gifts from creator. These individual special, unique gifts are ours alone to use and share with others on this journey we call life. It is in the Garden of Eden that we find these gifts and the ability to use them. However, there is one gift that was above even those. One gift that was so awesome that it was given to all. No matter your spiritual beliefs, your religious beliefs or lack of them. Each has recieved the greatest gift of all and we use it daily in every single thing we do. Knowingly or not. And it is in the misuse and abuse of this gift that we strayed from our own personal Garden of Eden and it is in the coming to understand its power as a gift from Creator and the proper use of it that we will return.

In "Where to Plant" we will address the gift "Power of Choice".

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sevenreader7 is your average spiritwalker. He finds in sharing his adventures on this journey we call life others become willing to share theirs. And it is in this sharing the magic of healing can happen.

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New Strategy by Outdoor Furniture Maker Brings Once Exclusive Fine Designs to Broad Range of Consumers.

By Anonymous

Before buying that expensive teak set, consider a new wood product that combines sophistication with prices that won’t break the bank, now available by mail order from Brookbend Outdoor Furniture. Brookbend has created eye-catching furniture by marrying cedar wood to designs normally found only in fine furniture. Cedar is a wood ubiquitous in outdoor furniture, but historically limited to plain or rustic designs, that are a poor match for the upscale patio or deck. The new result is a quality, comfortable product with a price that’s welcomed by many people.

Brookbend’s products include coordinating pieces that blend Scandinavian and Mission styles with a hint of Asian mystique. Brookbend owner Paul Marcus describes the original designs as “progressive contemporary,” and very curvy. “It’s definitely not rustic,” Marcus said. Brookbend further removes itself from rustic interpretations by using premium grade lumber that is completely devoid of knots, and by applying a teak stain at the factory. “The stain highlights cedar grain and imparts a light, crisp look to our flowing shapes, Marcus says”.

While researching the industry, Marcus found formal designs in wood outdoor furniture were limited to high end products. “For people wanting outdoor wood furniture having fine craftsmanship, they’ll be spending $500 or more for a small teak chair or bench.” In contrast, Brookbend’s chairs and benches range from $179 to $299. “These prices are possible by substituting for teak, one of the world’s most expensive woods.” Brookbend offers a variety of seating, tables, custom-fit cushions and umbrellas.

”Brookbend’s furniture also provides superior comfort, due to plenty of curves put in the right places. Having spent years selling ergonomic products, Marcus understood the importance of comfort, which he found to be largely absent in wood outdoor furniture at any price. Unfortunately, comfort isn’t something that many buyers consider at the time of purchase. Only after a summer squirming in their furniture do homeowners realize their mistake. A section for lay people who are curious about how chairs are designed for comfort can be read on Brookbend’s Web site (after 4/1/02) at www.brookbend.com. Or call Brookbend for more information at 508 497-9591.

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