Money Back & Stuff To Do

Yesterday when I was reading in the Kindle forums, I saw a thread about claiming a rebate. Rebate?   I read more and discovered that Kindle has come down $40 in price. Hastily I checked when mine had been bought, and yes, it was within the 30 days return time. So, I dashed off a note to Amazon and got email back in an hour or so stating that they would refund $40 back to my credit card! Now, actually, this is Fred’s money and it will be returned to him eventually. What he did was to put the $400 from his personal account into our partner-household  account and then I transferred that money into my personal account. I then bought the Kindle with my American Express card which I always pay off in full every month! We did it this seemingly complicated way because if I bought the Kindle with my card it would automatically be registered to me. And, as I have said before, I use the American Express card to garner "points" which I then use to get a gift certificate and buy free clothes from Land’s End.

Yesterday Fred said he thought that the tomato plant wouldn’t get enough sun where it was so I went out to look at this morning. Right now it is in the shade, So, I will move it to the other side of the deck. Actually, it isn’t on the deck at all; it is on the grass right by the steps going up to the deck. This morning is still chilly but I don’t mind this at all because we have SUN!  I don’t even mind the long Vermont winter too much as long as we have sunshine….

Things I want to do today:

• Keep checking the tomato plant in relation to sunlight
• Check my Amex card on line to see if I get the $40 credited today.
• If I feel like it, go out and buy another "gun" to put on the hose. There is one on now that belongs to our landlord but it has no "gentle shower" setting. Since I use that hose to water my plants, there is a tendency to blast them out of the boxes! And, yes, I know it I turn the hose on just a little bit, that will cut down on the blasting, but I have been known to forget that. I had a really nice water sprayer last year which I carelessly left out all winter and which then lost several vital and important parts…
• Use the new secateurs to cut away that annoying vine which is trying to grow into my bird feeders…

QUOTATIONS:

"Step by step. I can’t think of any other way of accomplishing anything."

Michael Jordan

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Bertolt Brecht, 1933