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Identity theft criminals are getting smarter and smarter ways to separate you from your money. Like most of us, you may enjoy the thrill of bidding for those most precious items on eBay! A recent victim of identity theft was emailed by the “supposed” seller, and said that it would be easier to just transfer the money directly to his PayPal account, through the link he provided. The customer hesitated, but saw the PayPal logo, and proceeded to transfer the money, while also providing personal information. What the customer didn’t know was that it was a fake copy of the PayPal logo, which leads to a site that allows the end user to steal all of your personal information, including credit cards, etc. Thankfully, this identity theft victim was a member of LifeLock, the leading, proactive identity theft protection company. (continue reading…)

This shed is like the car at the circus that clowns just keep climbing out of. As we haul stuff out of it I wonder how there can still be more in there! We have three children under 6 which means we have a lot of plastic lawn ornaments (thanks so much Little Tykes) and we enjoy lawn work, so in addition to toys, we have an abundance of tools and products that need a place to call their own when they are not in use. We purchased a Duramate 8×8 Vinyl Shed and love it! Its wall columns are metal reinforced so the walls hold our tools and shelves very nicely and with 305 cubic feet of space there’s plenty of room for the mower and all the Little Tykes junk, I mean toys and stuff. (continue reading…)

When you’re taking pictures of hundreds of trees for a bonsai website, it’s impossible to do justice to all of them, which is one reason to read the descriptions.  A great example of the reverse application of ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ speaks directly to the question of scale.  When you only have one bonsai tree pictured against a backdrop, you can easily loose the scale and not realize just how impressive the tree really is.  A perfect example is in the picture of a one of a kind Dwarf Black Olive Bonsai at Zen Garden Bonsai. (continue reading…)