Fire Extinguishers

     We have two fire extinguishers place in one of our cabinets in the kitchen. My husband bought these fire extinguishers few years ago. These are small extinguishers but very helpful in extinguishing initial B, C type of fires  in our home.

Types of Fires
A type fires............. Trash, Wood, Paper (Ordinary Combustibles)
B type fires.............. Liquid Grease (Flammable Liquids)
C type fires.............. Electrical Equipment

How about you my friends, do you have fire extinguisher at home?

My Brother is a Good Cook

      I really envy those people who are good cook. I tried cooking several dishes but I ended up getting disappointed most of the time. But if I was satisfied of what I cooked and then will cook the same dish the second time, weird as it sounds but it usually did not taste the same. I am really wondering how cooks make even the simplest dish very tasty. 

      My brother is a good cook. He is not a professional cook though but I love the foods he was cooking while I was living in the Philippines. In fact every time I visited my family, I always asked him to cook chicken adobo and make me "kinilaw"(Ceviche) but a filipino version which is a little bit different from the ceviche we have here in the US. He is so picky when it comes to the knives he is going to use when he cooks. He loves using his very sharp single blade pocket knife or the folding knife he bought from his friend in making fish ceviche. If his knives are missing he will not make ceviche, but if he does you have to beg him first or even lure him. 

      More than a year ago I sent my family in the Philippines a package and I included few knifes because my brother had been bugging me for awhile to send him the same knife I gave him a year after I was been here in the US. He broke the blade and split it in half while he was using it. 

     Since I am going to visit my family once again probably by March next year, I am already anxious not only to see my family, friends and relatives but also to eat the foods that I used to eat way back then. Well, time runs so quickly and few more sleeps, I will be in the Philippines eating chicken adobo and "kinilaw."

Thinking of Replacing our Driveway

     I suppose all of us wanted to have a very nice garden. In our case, this is our priority right now. The last landscaper we hired was merely replacing the grass and putting up the flagstones around our fountain and the walkway going behind our studio room. He also gave us a suggestion to our  Garden Design which we really appreciated a lot. We are almost done working in our small backyard garden except that we want to do something different with our driveway that extends next to our garden. My husband is thinking of doing it himself but after conducting a research online, he decided in hiring a handyman to either replace the pave driveway that we have with different materials or just simply stained it. 

Our garden more than or less than a year ago

     I also search online for the good materials or design that will look nice for our driveway. While searching I stumble upon the Garden Design Sydney. They have some really nice photos of their works which give me  some ideas on what color and materials that will probably look best for our driveway. One thing also they are based in Sydney and I live here in the US and so I can't hire them to work with us for couple of days. But to my friends who live in Sydney and the nearby cities, they can give them a try to do their Landscaping Sydney jobs.