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Uprise in Scooter popularity?

November 26, 2006 by Tricia

I’ve been seeing more and more people driving around my area on scooters – manual, electric and gas powered. It seems the trend is on the rise, or perhaps it’s the area that I live in where everything is relatively close by – not far enough to walk but no really a justified drive?

Wondering why the huge surge in popularity of these machines I went looking for some online and I discovered Urban Scooters, a company that sells a line of what they call X-Treme Scooters. I’m amazed at the line of scooters that they have, some are very powerful, particularly their x-treme line of scooters.

The X-Treme X-140 is a model that’s suitable for kids, only going 10 mph. It looks much more like a traditional scooter than say the X-Treme XP-700 which looks very much like a compact motorcycle – to me it does anyway.

It’s unbelievable how many types of scooters they have and how different they look from what one might imagine when you hear the word scooter. The X-Treme X-250 is probably the type I would get if I were to get one. It goes about 13 mph and is said to be a more rugged than the x-140 model. Likely perfect for tooling around the city with I would imagine.

I guess, after a looking at a site like Urban Scooters I can see why so many people in this area are buying them. They look like an interesting mode of transportation- and an inexpensive one at that.





Filed Under: Shopping Tagged With: electric scooter, gas scooter, Scooter, Urban Scooter, X treme Scooter

The ravages of time

November 25, 2006 by Tricia

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Here’s stands a barn that has withstood the ravages of time. I love the old fence beside it on the left. I’m not sure what you call that type of fence but it’s one of those old log fences.

I took this photo this past summer when we drove from Toronto to Ottawa in July. It was just a little while after Canada Day and obviously this farm was still proud to show the Canadian flag, or perhaps they keep the flag up all the time.

I love the grasses and wild flowers growing in the foreground. The meadow smelled lovely as well. I enjoyed that trip- jumping out of the car here and there to take some amazing photos along the way. Of course I trip took about two hours longer than it should have because of this, but it was still fun.

Please don’t link and run! There is nothing that I find more rude. Photo Scavenger Hunt participants are welcome to leave their links- all non participants links will be removed.

Filed Under: Photo Hunters Tagged With: Barn, Canadian flag, old barn, old fence, Photo Hunters, road trip

Give a Photo Mosiac as a gift

November 25, 2006 by Tricia

I just came across a site that makes unique gifts out of photographs.

The company is called Design a Mosaic, and when you order a photo mosaic from them with create a custom photo gift out of a series of your own photos using one main photo as the main image.

The remaining photos are used to compose the many cells with in the main photo to make an image, that when viewed close up reflects the many photographs that make up the picture as a whole. It’s amazing how they do this. See the sample photo mosaics on their site to see what I mean.

Filed Under: Culture, Decor, Fashion, Shopping Tagged With: photo made up many photos, photo mosaic, unique gift

Sofies TV blew up!

November 25, 2006 by Tricia

Ok, her TV didn’t blow up but when Chris went over there on Thursday afternoon after she’d knocked on our back window, as she loves to do several times each day, he discovered that her TV wasn’t working anymore and that it had a distinct electrical smell to it.

Our elderly neighbor Sofie told Chris that her son was going to bring her a new TV the next day. Why, then did she call our house twice and knock on the windows a few times? I’m not sure. I hadn’t been feeling well on Thursday and I was upstairs in bed trying to sleep when I’d heard the taps on the window. I didn’t get up because I was totally out of it … plus I figured she was just coming over to say hello like she does several times a day anyway.

Chris being the nice guy that he is decided to take our small TV that we keep in one of our guest bedrooms over to her. She’s elderly and easily bored so he thought this would help her pass the time through the evening until her son would show up with another TV for her. But her other son showed up while Chris was there and he’d brought a TV with him.

Cut to Friday. I guess Sofie didn’t have any problems with the TV on Thursday night, but on Friday she had problems. Between Chris and I we’ve been over to her house to turn on her TV or change the channel for her no less than 7 times.

She can’t see the displayed numbers on the TV when the channel changes, nor can she see the numbers on the TV converter in her hand. She likes leaving the TV on channel 4 so I really don’t know what the problem is. We’ve shown her how to select the numbers in a few different ways like counting the buttons or using the channel up and down control, but every time she gets herself on a different channel she calls us.

We’ve called her son and told him that he must get her a TV converter with gigantic buttons so that she can see the numbers. Maybe that will solve the problem. If it doesn’t she’s going to keep calling us and asking us to come over several times a day.

She refuses to live with her sons who have each invited her to come live with them. She likes living on her own and I don’t blame her. However in the past year there’s been a lot of signs that she’s not coping well on her own. She’s lonely, she’s fallen several times and now her eyes are obviously failing – plus the visits to fix her TV probably weren’t just because she couldn’t get the channel that she wanted back on, I’m sure they were cries of loneliness.

Neighbors! ARghhhhH!

Filed Under: The Neighborhood Tagged With: elderly, exploding tv, neighbor, sofie, The Neighborhood, TV, visits

Publicity Guaranteed gets your company noticed

November 25, 2006 by Tricia

If you are running a small or large business and you’ve paid to get publicity for your company but felt that you didn’t get what you paid for then Publicity Guaranteed might be the right company for you to work with.

How does it work? Well, the experienced writers at Publicity Guaranteed prepare an article for you that they feel will give your business more exposure. After you’ve approved the article their media relations department works towards getting your article published in magazines and newspapers. Publicity Guaranteed only charges you for results- not for their time as some PR firms tend to do.

Article placement starts at $195 and works on a sliding scale from there. For more information, visit http://www.PublicityGuaranteed.com . The company states that they have placed articles in The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, and many more well known publications.

Filed Under: Sales and Marketing, Services, Web and Technology Tagged With: articles, major magazine, major newspapers, promote your company, Publicity Guaranteed, publish articles about your company, small business

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