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Borrowed the smaller version of the FURminator from a friend and loved it! Went to look for it in a pet store and realized that they were VERY expensive so I checked on-line and found it at Amazon for a fraction of the price (80% off the retail price in the store!).
The FURminator is so much better than a regular dog brush…the fine comb gets under the top layer of fur to the undercoat and does a fabulous job of deshedding while not too abrasive to the dog’s skin. I’m not sure that it eliminates 90% of my dog’s shedding as the package suggests but it is nonetheless a worthwhile tool and glad I have one!
1 GB XD MEMORY

I recommend this mount for those who find the standard windshield mount awkward. It stays where put, can be moved easily if desired, and adapts to all shapes of dashboards. It also makes positioning of a large windshield sunguard in hot weather very easy. The vendor shipped the product promptly in great condition.
Gift Pack Variety of

My husband and I travel and whenever we are in a new city, we like to walk a lot. We end up walking for 3 or 4 solid hours, but never know how far we have gone until now. We bought the pedometers just before a 3-week trip to Scandinavia and the Baltic region and tracked our steps every day. Turns out we were walking a lot more than we thought – 199 miles in 23 days. Except for the days we were in airports, we easily topped 10,000 steps a day and one day we even topped 30,000. Our mileage doesn’t quite correspond, but it is close enough. It has also helped motivate us to get moving. If we haven’t done 5,000 steps by lunch we know we have to kick it up a notch to get in our minimum 10,000 goal. We both love it and are looking forward to breaking our record on our next trip!
Cleo s Menu Cookbook

Everything you always wanted

I have had a number of pedometers, I like to wear them to keep me aware of the need to get in my “steps” for the day. This is probably the best one I have had. I love that it can be tucked in my pocket and not have to be upright to correctly measure the steps. It is a little larger than I would like, but the size is more than compensated for by how functional it is. I love knowing how many of my steps were aerobic. It is easy to read, easy to work, and is doing it’s job well. Great buy for me!
Michigan Industrial Tools MIT

I bought this a month ago and the first time I used it to clean 4 rooms, it worked very well. I got a little overzealous and oversoaked the carpet in my basement, and it was still wet a day later which is very bad. This was my fault, I put a LOT of water down. I had to run the dehumidifier and 3 fans like crazy to get it dry. The second time I used it, I was using it moderately and it wasn’t sucking up much water AT ALL. The carpet was wet. I called customer service and amazon shipped me a brand new one, which came in 2 days!!!! They also sent me a shipping label to ship the broken one back in the new one’s box. (since I threw the old box out)
The new one works great and I’m so impressed with Amazon’s customer service. I buy most of my planned purchases through amazon, and I’ll continue to do that after this experience. I have found good customer service to be ever-more-rare, so I’m very pleased!
72mm Snap On Lens

Unbidden images of Gone With the Wind popped into my head and played out when I first started reading the stories of Aibileen and the other black maids, until I discovered that some of those same maids were college educated and reading classics like To Kill a Mockingbird and even some Freud. I had to stop and think, this story is in fact based in 1962, almost a hundred years since the slaves were set free. So what has happened in 100 years? According to this story, subservient slave labor is alive and well, except that these black women are employees instead of property.

The book spans the time from 1962-1964 in Jackson, Mississippi, the civil rights movement is rumbling. Almost everything is still segregated, except for the bus, “We sit anywhere we want to now thanks to Miss Parks.” In the background of the story, Mississippi is featured in Life magazine twice in two months for its racial unrest, Martin Luther King is planning his big march on Washington, and President Kennedy is shot. But in the foreground are the black maids and their stories, the everyday life of these women is fascinating reading, the things they had to endure, the joys and hardships. You can tell yourself this is a fiction book, but you know deep down that these things really did happen, a sad and shameful time in our Southern history.

I really enjoyed this book, it is funny and sad and serious and suspenseful and totally believable. As I am sure the author intended, I found myself rooting for the maids and abhorring their white bosses. For such an oppressing topic, it was a thoroughly great read.

Sky Wars

Water for Elephants is a superb novel that is endlessly engrossing. Gruen’s storytelling ability is marvelous and this book is tireless throughout, I couldn’t put it down. It’s romantic, its daunting, its tense, and immensely rewarding.

The characters in this novel are so well put together and so dynamic that you care for so many and loathe others. The progression is absolutely perfect. Her vivid descriptions pulls you in head first into the depression era, and really paints a picture of a train circus even though I have no experience with the medium.

This is a story that I truly cherish and will return to in the future, a movie is being released next year for it and if it captures even half the essence of the book it will be wildly successful.

I am in love with marlena.
3x Digital Telephoto Professional

Garmin Nuvi 265WT Nylon

Needed to buy another one of these, but ordered 2 for a back up. Great Product
Univex Immersion Tube 3030305