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  Sometimes things get older and fall apart. It happens all the time. As I've posted in the past, I love my solar lights, but that means they always need to be outside and in the sun in order to function properly. What that means is after weeks and years of the sun beating down on these things, they fall apart. I have some lights that are starting to fall apart. They are lights that are in a shape of a flower. The solar plates and the LED lights are fine, however the plastic shell that forms the flower have been crumbling. So what do you do with it? It looks a little strange with just the light itself. Here's what I did. I had an old IKEA lamp that wasn't usable anymore. I trashed it, but I made sure to keep the light cover of it (I don't know the technical name of it... let's just say the white cover part! haha). As you can see in the picture, below, I put the solar light inside the lamp cover and it made it glow nicely at night! Check out the video too! T

This just make me laugh inside. I love it!  We were about to head out on our little mini vacation and my wife asks me if I saw the sign my son put up. If you can’t read it, is says “cameras watching.”  I guess he just doesn’t want any bad guys to show up! That’s the best!  

 Have a great weekend everyone!  Go and enjoy the outdoors, even if it's in your own yard! 😁

So by now you should know I have an obsession with solar lights- especially for the backyard.  Yesterday, I happened to mysteriously come across these lights while I was buying something else on Amazon.  As you can see in the background of the picture, I there's an orange flame light (to the left).  I got this light over a year ago.  Sadly, one of them broke and I had this one left.  I was quite excited to see that these lights were on sale!  I thought a blue flame would be awesome to add into the light mixture.  Do I love it?  I love them!  I may have to get more "regular" orange lights too in the future. Where to find these lights? Here's the link:  https://amzn.to/3whpqix   I just love how it adds color to all the lights! :)

 Here’s an Amazon order that I absolutely love! (click the link below)  A few years ago when we moved out of our condo (with no backyard) into our current house (with a backyard), I discovered that I had an obsession with solar lights!  This is one of the lights that I love.  I got these on Amazon, but this wasn't the same seller, however, the lights look similar in design, so I believe it's the same maker, but just a different seller.  See below the picture of the use of one of them. https://amzn.to/3A8WdHY  One of the reasons I love these is because they change color.  It gives a nice blue-ish and purple color, along with others.  If you see the little plant on the left in the background, they can light up your plants nicely with a colorful glow.  Now look at the picture below.  One of my favorite reasons for having solar lights in the yard is security.  Before having any lights in the backyard, I never liked looking in the backyard and just seeing complete darkness.  I never

 Beginning of what? Well, another school year. One started preschool yesterday and the two older ones will start tomorrow. How do I feel? Good and bad. Bad because we got to drive everywhere and pay a ton now for gas! (Currently hovering around $5/gal) good because we can try to do more around the house. Of course we’ll miss the kids as we had a summer full of mini vacations, which they loved! Trips to Monterey and Six Flags Discovery Kingdom were the highlights. Local drives always come in handy especially when you can’t fly anywhere (for us because of many kids!). But finding a local and driveable place is golden and the kids love staying at a hotel cause it’s all about the feeling of being on vacation!