Ronald Headley on August 23rd, 2010

I am putting a new Yard Garden Windmill Product site together.  I am using the DREAM THEME from Go for Your Dream.  So far I am really liking this theme.   This is a Word Press Site.  Come on over and take a look or even better come back and watch the site come together.  YARD [...]

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Ronald Headley on August 19th, 2010

College is starting soon – I have 8 foot windmills for three colleges – Powder Coated Steel – Made in the USA– University of Nebraska Huskers, Iowa State Cyclones and Iowa University Hawkeyes.
I also have Antique Copper weathervanes in roof mount, post mount, deck mount and garden stake for 38 different colleges – These are [...]

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Ronald Headley on August 19th, 2010

I have made a number of changes to the Yard Garden Windmill site.  The first thing that has changed is the checkout.  I had thought that adding Pay Pal Buy Now buttons to each item would make it easier for customers to Check Out.  For most customers the Buy Now button did work, however for [...]

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Ronald Headley on July 1st, 2010

A couple of years ago I got an order from a businessman from Singapore.  This businessman made a huge difference to me at the time.  This businessman called me on the phone several times from Singapore.  He called at a time when things were not going well for me.  (eBay sales had been dropping, and [...]

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Ronald Headley on June 30th, 2010

In the free computer tips I will be mentioning some tools and software that I use a lot on my computers. Some of the tools and software are free and some are things you can buy. In the how to use your computer class I will be showing you how to get some [...]

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I have been working on a new site Geezer n Geek It is pretty “rough” right now – however I do want to invite you to “take a look” as I put the site together.
What does this new site have to do with windmills and weather vanes? I get phone calls quite often from [...]

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Ronald Headley on June 25th, 2010

Back in the late 1890’s there were a number of windmill companies in the Midwest.  As people began to develop agriculture in the Midwestern plains a source of good clean clear water was found 50 to 100 feet below the surface.  The Midwestern plains has few rivers.  Livestock was a part of farming and windmills [...]

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Ronald Headley on June 25th, 2010

The second new mini windmill is a model of the ELI from Kregel Windmill Company – Nebraska City, Nebraska.  "Stop working for the oil kings!"  Use the wind to pump water and save time and money." from a 1922 ad for the Eli Windmill Company. (make one wonder if we had paid attention to this [...]

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Ronald Headley on June 25th, 2010

There two new mini windmills now available.  This is the first of the two.  This is a model of the 1922 Dempster from Dempster which was located at Beatrice Nebraska.  Dempster Mill Manufacturing was founded in 1978.  The made windmills, hand pumps, water well products and agricultural implements.  The company today is still in Beatrice [...]

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Ronald Headley on May 11th, 2010

My sales site yardgardenwindmill.com had a major problem last week. Somehow the link to Pay Pal failed. The result was customers were calling in and emailing saying they could not check out. The site is actually a “build it” site which means I can add pages and products but I have no [...]

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