I have to say that as a young person I was instilled a value for antiques. As I was growing up my parents would take us (the kids) around to different antique stores as well as to places with Historical value. In looking around for places to go and visit one of the locations is the W.H. Stark House. It?s located in Orange Texas. The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Place as well as designated as a Historical land mark in Texas.

I have been thinking to visit Texas since my Uncle Bill lived there for so many years, he was outside of Huston and in visiting him as well as attending a Cousin?s wedding, I came to appreciate Texas as more than just a State in the Union. It would be nice to take a road trip and drive through the state stopping Historical locations other than just ?The Alamo?. :)

Back to why I started this the Stark House, not only is it a treasured location, but they also have a collection of Antiques that are available for viewing when you take the tour of the home. They have the ?Crest of Waves? it?s a bronze statue and its just amazing. It reminds me of ?Spirit? the statue that was mentioned in ?Pillars of the Fallen? by Terry Goodkind. If I had to pick something in the real world to compare it to it would be this bronze it is just stunning.

In addition to the art the home is just amazing from the online tour that is available, it?s what you would picture a classic home to be, it?s all hardwood floors and early American furniture with some classic European thrown in.

I can?t wait to go and visit the home in person!!

So my Parent's should be here in time for this upcoming event, we have never taken them out to our winery. And I think this might just be the event to introduce them to how good the wine!!!

What do you think?? Does this not sound FANTASTIC?

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Father's Day Vertical Pinot Noir Tasting

So I have been listening to a bunch of financial shows and they are all talking about getting identity theft protection. I have been thinking of this since we did have a scare on our credit reports a little while ago. So I'm looking into lifelock I have seen a bunch of commercials for them and in doing some research they seem to have a good plan to help keep your credit safe. Its more the hassle of cleaning up the mess if it happens that they protect against since you would not be liable for any credit card charges since those would be fraud.

I suggest checking them out!

We have been having some issues at work with our stamps; we are using those old date stamps that you would see in a Monty Python movie, where the accountants are stamping the pages well singing a song. We are looking at ordering the new self inking stamps that do the date or any other thing you would like it to say.

I remember when stamps had just one color, BLACK these days you can get them in the color of the rainbow and have them say anything that you want other than PAID, RECEIVED or PAST DUE.? I would love to have a Purple stamp that says ACCOUNT CLOSED or WINNER, just something to be a little unique in a world where everyone seems to have the same thing.

When you order stamps online they even have a design template that you can use in order to get exactly what you want in order to make the self inking stamps you order your own! I would check this company out and start expressing yourself at work!!

They have more than just stamps they have all kinds of products that you can customize not only for your business but for yourself as well.

So there is a new kid in town offering blog advertising, there name is Bloggers Review. From what I can tell they are a?blog for pay?site. As of right now they look like they came into the blog advertising market in January of 2008. I registered with the site and I'm waiting to see how many opportunities they will have with advertisers. I'm hoping that I will be able to make some bank with them. They have a really easy to use interface so I hope that is going to make it easier to get tasks. :)

In addition to it being a new site there has been some positive reviews that I have found through google, plus looking at the available offers that are in the members area they already have some clients. My blog does not currently qualify for those offers but I'm hoping that if I can get my pagerank up they will become available to me.