If You Love Your Home Then Show It The Love

A home is a very personal place. It is where your best memories are made with your spouse, children,

What we constantly forget about owning a home, is that it needs tender loving care. Time needs to be spent taking care of the little but important items in your home. When was the last time you changed the filters in your HVAC system? Did you know they need to be done on a regular schedule, every 3 months.

How about changing the batteries in your smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors and keyless entries to your home. These also need to be done regularly.

Checking to make sure the caulking around all of your bath tubs and showers quarterly is also very important. Water travels in mysterious ways, and you should not neglect the upkeep or it will be a costly repair.

When was the last time you had your dryer vent cleaned out? Did you know that more than 100,000 people die each year from house fires caused by this.

Do you have a working, charged fire extinguisher in your kitchen? Even more importantly, does everyone in your home know how to use it? Simple but equally important to know. Most towns require a working fire extinguisher to be installed in the house in order to pass for a continued certificate of occupancy (CCO). This might seem ugly to place in the kitchen, but it can most certainly save your life.

We have a client that signed on with our company last year. When we did our home assessment (which we do for every new member), we found that they had no fire extinguishers in the house. With their permission, we installed one in the kitchen and another in their garage. Four months later they had an electrical fire in their garage from a piece of equipment, and luckily they were able to grab the fire extinguisher we placed in their garage and quickly put out the fire. The home owner was relieved that his home and family were saved by us having placed the fire extinguishers in his home.

Some home owners are very handy and love to tinker around the house, and some just don't have the time or knowledge of what to do. If you are the latter home owner, than it is time to ask for help. Don't be shy, we cannot all be the best at everything, just the things we love to do. If you love to spend time working, playing a sport, or hanging with your kids, then those are the things you should concentrate on being the best at, just make sure you enjoy each moment doing it.

There is no shame in hiring someone to help you with your house. So what would your house be saying to you if it could speak? I hope it says " I love you too."

friends and family members. We spend hours pouring through magazines and websites looking for the perfect piece to place in each room.

ART - DO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT?

I have been a creative person since I was allowed to use crayons!

Creating things that I could play with or use in my grade school assignments from what I colored or designed was my escape... I would look for paper scraps, cardboard, fabric and really anything that I could incorporate into my final production or should I say, self-made "trophy" that I would later share with family members.

In grade school we created what was known as a "diarama" which consisted of a shoebox that I had the task of not only telling a story, but it was my job to illustrate the scene, characters and functioning pieces! I took my diaramas very seriously, survived life's ups and downs to become a very creative adult.

However, we all know that the world of fine art is highly competitive and not about shoebox diaramas. With this said, my drive to create images to later become part of functional art or some other product it is of no surprise to me in that I am always looking at how things work and/or don't work!

While art in various forms has been around since the beginning of time, it has changed its face and increased momentum recently finding its place among clothing, personal items, etc.

Just like the diarama of yesterday told the story in grade school, the art of today when it shows up on more than just canvas, gives us a feeling that there is something right with the world, that a brighter and better tomorrow is possible, and just maybe, that anything is possible!

I believe, that as an artist, it is my responsibility to share my artistic vision and bring light into the dark corners of our planet. Maybe even turn on some more lights in those already lit up areas.

The process of creation has no boundaries.

I see myself as an advocate and voice for all things that are ART. Why wouldn't I be in love with ART? Recalling how healing it was to express my childhood emotions outside the lines with my first love of art, crayons! While my images may have started with crayons, it has grown to creating images that evoke emotion, speak to humanity and advocate peace.

While the diarama might be a thing of the past and since replaced with technology and graphic design, the dream of creation started with our imagination, our essence and the longing to fulfill that desire for that something more, we knew existed, somewhere, in the landscape of our playgrounds.

Hot Flashes, Cold Nights

Back in the fall of of 1973 I was a young freshman at the University of Miami. I was given a room at the

Late in that month, they installed a room air conditioner. My roommate Andy and I thought this would be our salvation. We were wrong. It led to us not rooming together the next year. Why? The reason was I like it cool, and he liked it COLD.

I had a job at the campus bakery that started at 05:00, so I normally would be in bed by 9:30 or 10:00. He had a rich dad, so he came to bed whenever he felt like it. The problem was I would set the air conditioner on low when I went to bed, and Andy would come in later and set it on high. At 4:15 in the morning, I would wake up to a frosty greeting.

Now I grew up in upstate NY, and the reason I went to UM was to avoid frosty mornings. So the fact that I found myself freezing, dancing around on the cold tile floor, trying to dodge snow flakes, quickly lost its appeal to me.

So long Andy.

Turn the clock ahead 30 years. Here I am once again living in Miami, (because I got real sick of being cold). Everything was going great, until my wife started going through menopause. She started experiencing "hot flashes". I really don't understand why they call them "flashes" because she is always having one! They really aren't "hot moments" either. Let just call them "hot, four years and running, never ending periods" of her life.

So here I am, with a room air conditioner in my bedroom, cranked to high, every night. I still have to work at 05:00, But since the commute is 26 miles, I now get to dance around on cold tiles, and avoid snow flakes at 3:15.

older dorm, Mahoney Hall. There was no air conditioning in our room, so the September nights were often pillow soaked experiences.

Childhood days (Poem)

It was the era of childhood
It was the treasure of happiness

Want to get to the moon
Heart was obsessed with butterflies

There was no reason to cry
Had reason to laugh

Did not know the night
It was not the evening destination

Grandmother's story was
The Fiction Fairy was

Touch the branches of trees were
Clay was khlunha

Grief was not the language of
It was not a measure of Sorrows

Sleeping with Your partner crossing Your limits

Sleeping with Your partner doesn’t always
mean you are crossing Your limits.
Sometimes it’s simply means cuddling with
Your partner under one blanket.
Sometimes it means, keeping head on his
Shoulders.
Sometimes it means, just sharing a Bed.
Or just simply sharing A warm Feeling..!
You want to know what Real Love is..?
It’s waking up in the middle of night, for no
reason,
Shifting under the blanket and feeling the
heat of person next to You.
You turn around to see them in their most
peaceful, innocent and vulnerable state.
You kiss their face in most gentle manner,
so as not to wake them.
You turn back and there is a Sweet
priceless smile on Your Face.
You feel an arm wrapping around Your waist, and you know it doesn’t get any
better than this.
You can’t make your Relationship
strengthen with spending more time in Bed,
You can’t make Your Girl happy, by making
her satisfied.
You can’t make Yourself proud, By Fucking
Your Girl .
You have to keep that promises, which
You’ve given.
You have to say those magical words, and
prove it Every day – Every night.
Treating Your Girl right is much more
important than kissing her hardly – pushing
to wall.
Understanding her secret wishes is much
more important,
Joining her pieces of broken heart is much
more important than breaking her virginity.
Leaving her with beautiful memories, is much better than Leaving her in bed.
Long, Deep, Hard kisses doesn’t make a
Way for any relationship,
But Few roses, Magical Words, and True
promises makes a Beautiful Relationship. -
Without an doubt.
Spending all long nights in Bed won’t let
you come closer to Your partner,
Spending few Beautiful Moments – Holding
her hands, Making her smile. Matters a lot.
Because when You Love Truly, its
called’Making Love’, and not SEX.
True beauty of every Girl lies in the Way she
care For You,
What she Feels for You..
The way she is ready to sacrifice her
everything for Your Love.
The passion she shows for You.
You cant take her for granted, Just because
of the Simple reason, – She Loves You. The passion she shows for You.
You cant take her for granted, Just because
of the Simple reason, – She Loves You.
It’s really easy to find some one who can
give You a pleasure on Bed like no other.
But it’s really difficult finding that some one
who truly Loves you Like no other.. !

Valentine’s Day Poem to Girlfriend

Valentine’s Day

Your beautiful eyes
Your warming smile
Your wonderful country accent
Makes me smile

I'm shy to talk to you
Foolish, I don't know why
What to be scared of,
You remind me of stars in the sky
Beautiful and bright
You're a joyful sight

I don't know you well
But wish to know you more,
Maybe go on a date
Or see a show, either one,
I'll just be happy to know
That we gave it a shot
And didn't just let it go.

My Love For You

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Music is beautiful
And so are you

You smell so good
You smell so sweet
You smell good enough to eat

My love is for you
For you are in my heart
My love is for you
My beautiful sweetheart

So I hope
You take this poem to heart
Because I hope
That we shall never part

Happy Valentine’s Day

My First, My Last, My Valentine

I've never imagined that there can be this day.

A day that love will find its way.
Out of my heart and into your soul.
These feelings I have are beyond my control.

All my life I have waited patiently.
For a goddess like you, so beautiful, so lovely.
Words can't express the way I feel.
These feelings towards you are all for real.

You are the reason why I go on.
Eternity can't separate this special bond.
This heart of mine is reserved for you.
Forever it is yours, this love is true.

I'll be your first and you'll be my last.
My world, my everything, till my time has past.
I will always love you until the end of time.
MY LOVE, MY SWEETHEART, MY VALENTINE!