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Flymo Garden Vac 2500 Turbo
Customer Review: Poor information
I guess this an electrical item rather than a petrol driven uint but it does not say. It says 2500 watts so I guess it is mains powered – if so you’d think they would say something about the power cord e.g. how long it is and if it is earthed or not!

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Month-by-Month Gardening in Florida, Revised Edition by Tom McCubbin – Park Seed Gardening Books
What to Do Each Month to Have a Beautiful Garden All Year. Take the guesswork out of gardening. The Month-by-Month Gardening Guides offer valuable advice on the proper timing of garden maintenance for each month. Use of the guide will take the fear and guesswork out of gardening, as well as provide an achievable plan for gardening success for beginners and experienced gardeners alike. A Month-by-Month Gardening Guide is available for each state or region.Published by Cool Springs Press.

Lionel Trains Polar Express Train Set
Now, you can own the ever popular Polar Express train from Lionel. Painstakingly designed to be true to the original, this exclusive Lionel train set features a die-cast metal Berkshire steam locomotive with a new, larger pilot, headlight lens cap and unique whistle. The engine and tender are painted in a dark, matte finish to complete the image.

Following the locomotive and tender are two lighted coach cars. The observation car features a new rounded observation deck. Silhouettes in the windows depict passengers, and the joyful coach car is where the kids get their fill of hot chocolate and candy. A 40″ x 60″ oval track completes the set.

Articulated figures with turning heads, movable arms, bendable waists and jointed knees are included. They can be posed and placed on areas of the locomotive, tender and passenger cars.

Locomotive Features:

• Transformer controlled forward, neutral and reverse operation
• Air whistle in tender
• Operating headlight
• Operating coupler on rear of tender
• Powerful maintenance-free motor
• Two traction tires
• Puffing smoke
• Die-cast metal locomotive body and frame
• Separately applied metal handrails
• All-new pilot and headlight lens shield

Passenger Cars Feature:

• Interior lighting
• Decorated drumhead on observation car
• All-new, rounded observation deck
• Silhouettes in windows
• Gauge: O Gauge
• Minimum Curve: 0-27
• Dimensions: Length: 63 3/8″
• Railroad track layout dimensions: 40″ x 60″

Price: $289.99
Customer Review: Excellent Build Quality-Truly As Advertised-Highly Recommend
Purchased 2 weeks ago. Train locomotive is very heavy and feels solid. The train has a whistle that is incredible and puffs of smoke that fill living room. The track took 15 minutes to place on tile floor and train placed on quite easily. My 3 year old daughter gazed with awe for a few hours. This is a high quality Lionel train set with a fine build quality. No regrets. I have been using it nightly on timers with christmas tree without any problems. Paid $236 with shipping-money well spent. The train comes with 4 figurines that you can place on train, locomotive and coal car with 3 cars, brass bell(nice touch) and track. 5 stars-Wife Very Happy
Customer Review: Polar Express Train (Lionel)
We purchased this train as a Christmas gift for our grand children and they were delighted. Very well made. Tracks work on carpet or hardwood without difficulty.

Keepsake
Keepsake is an epic quest that takes you on a journey of enlightenment. Enter an enchanted world, where you’ll study at the famous Dragonvale Academy. Your old friend Celeste is already there, and you’re looking forward to seeing her again… But upon your arrival, the campus is deserted and Celeste is nowhere to be found! Treachery and sorrow lurks in the halls of the Academy; overcome it by solving the mysteries of Celeste’s disappearance, and the secrets of Dragonvale Academy — with only one of Celeste’s most treasured keepsakes to guide you.
List Price: $29.99
Amazon Price: $29.99
Used Price: $18.99
Customer Review: I loved it!
I’m going to try not to repeat too much of what’s already been said. I am an avid fan of adventure games. I’ve played all of the games which have been praised in these reviews. I would probably consider Syberia to be my favorite of all time. Nonetheless, I loved this game! It had its annoyances (just like almost every other game I have played): the acting was sometimes pretty awful; the riddle puzzles were annoyingly nebulous; sometimes tedious moving back and forth. The graphics blew me away. Not as photographically realistic as some other games. I was spellbound by the fairy-tale, dreamlike quality of the images. Hauntingly beautiful music that I never grew tired of. I actually found myself going back to places just so I could gawk at the scenery and/or enjoy the soundtrack. The storyline fascinated me. I was intrigued and stayed interested until the end. I enjoyed the puzzles. Some were pretty easy and some were deviously difficult (at least for me). I enjoyed the playful interaction with my accomplice. Warmth and humanity were added via other interactions that I appreciated. This game entertained me for many hours and I looked forward to playing it whenever I could. Although it employed some hackneyed concepts, it never bored me or disappointed me (not even the bittersweet ending). In my opinion, it was well worth the money spent!
Customer Review: Better than I expected..
I know all reviews are subjective, but the wide disparity in opinions about this game made me reluctant to buy it. Well, I got it as an xmas gift and I have to say it really is a ‘game of two halves’. If you don’t persevere through the first section of the game, which is really an exercise in memorising locations more than anything else (only a dozen or so objects to find and use, and it will take you probably 4 hours to do this)then you miss out on the MUCH better second part of the story where there are a ton of puzzles to solve, although still not that many items to use. The people who made this are obviously big fans of two games in particular – there are floating islands, teleportation devices and lots of strange levers to pull like in Myst (the teleportation devices use EXACTLY the same sound effect as used in Myst); the main character is supposed to be like April Ryan from The Longest Journey, her sidekick Zak is Crow from the same game. There’s even a talking tree just like er, The Longest Journey! Once things started picking up in the second part I really wanted to finish the game to see how things were resolved and I didn’t find it cheesy or corny at all, in fact I was quite moved by the ending. It actually showed some quite deep psychlogical insight into the nature of grief and how to get over it. Just to deal with the negative points of the other reviews – 1. The voice acting – really only the Merchant is irritating and you don’t interact with him very much so who cares? 2. Character graphics – I don’t know what people are looking at or why they concentrate so much attention on the length of the characters arms, the character graphics are perfectly ok. 3. Somebody mentioned the ‘controls are horrible’.. but all you use is the mouse,theres absolutely no manual dexterity required to solve any of the puzzles so which ‘controls’ are these exactly? 4. Strange camera angles..all that happens is that you occassionally see the characters from a ceiling viewpoint, this is so that you get a panoramic view of the room you’re in, it doesn’t get in the way of playing the game at all..just point and click to where you want to go. 5. Lots of tedious walking/trotting around..yes, I’m afraid this does happen a lot in the first part of the game. I can see how the designers wanted you to move around a lot so that you would find all the rooms and be able to memorise their locations, but not having anything interesting to do once you got there doesn’t make for a fun time. The pros for this game are – The in-built hint system – I can’t believe somebody wrote that they had to go on-line to get help for puzzles, the game has its own walkthrough included! Any puzzles I felt I could get past in 20 minutes or so I gave a good shot at solving, the ones that I knew would take hours I just auto-solved. (Even then, one puzzle took the computer ten minutes to play through, that would have taken me days to work out.) Puzzles that are actually integrated into the flow of the game, not some random events that have nothing to do with the environment you’re in. Very, very simple interface – there’s absolutely nothing that can go wrong here, inventory items are used automatically in the areas you need them, you don’t even need to use the right mouse button for anything..brilliant! Graphics are excellent, but mainly static. Cut scene graphics are I think intentionally ‘grainy’ so I wil cut them some slack there. The game is plenty long enough, I finished it in about 16 hours, but that was bypassing the tougher puzzles and using the Help function a lot to point me to the next correct location. If you play this ‘properly’ you could be looking at 30 hours easily. If you have got this far I would just like to sum up by saying that Keepsake isn’t the greatest adventure game out there, but its far from the worst. If you can pick it up cheap or borrow it from someone its definitely worth playing, but ultimately leaves you a bit flat when its finished.

Sunterra 300409 Mistmaker Fogger For Ponds and Water gardening, Silver and Black
List Price: $19.99
Amazon Price: $19.99
Customer Review: Cheap
This unit stopped working very soon after installation. And when I tried to clean it, the ceramic disc broke with a slight tap. This unit may be too cheap to be worth it.
Customer Review: worked great the first week then stopped
I have a grey sediment on the ultrasound head after one week. I used distilled water so I don’t see it as something in the water. I tried cleaning it to no avail. I then tried soaking it in a product for cleaning minerals off metal and it didn’t work. Now I’ll see how customer care responds.

Black & Decker DCM18S Brew ‘n Go Personal Coffeemaker with Travel Mug
Wouldn’t this make a great gift for a student, or a commuter? The machine brews right into the thermal travel mug and then shuts itself off, so your favorite coffee lover can simply grab and go!
Price: $19.99
Customer Review: perfect for one
I purchased this for my mother for Christmas. She really needed a coffee maker that was more reliable. This one is perfect. It has a reusable coffee filter, makes a perfect cup of coffee at a simple push down of a lever that automatically shuts the coffee maker off when done. No more worries about a coffee pot left on, burnt coffee or a coffee maker that over flows. This one is so simple and easy to clean and you can use more than just the travel mug under it. I would recommend this to anyone who is not a big coffee drinker or who really likes the taste of a fresh brewed cup of coffee.
Customer Review: Excellent Quick Coffee Maker
This is our second Black & Decker Brew ‘n Go and we really like it. We had the first one for several years before we had to replace it due to the switch going out. We couldn’t wait to get a new one and no other small coffee maker would do! It’s very convenient and especially good for a quick cup on the go or if you have caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee drinkers in the house. The filter system is great since you don’t have to buy filters. The only reason we wouldn’t give it a 5 star rating is the travel mug can take on water between the inner and outer pieces.

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