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Ok ok Trillium photo coming soon!

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I can’t believe how popular my Trillium Grandiflora photo was that I used for my Green Thumb Sunday post. So many of you have written in saying that you want to see what the plant looks like when it’s blooming that I promise you, I will be posting a photo of the bloom tomorrow, perhaps as my wordless Wednesday post.

The bloom is long gone now. This is another plant that only blooms for a week or two. We had a spell of very hot weather around the time that the buds finally bloomed so the lovely flowers didn’t last long, but I did capture it with my camera.

What, you thought I didn’t? Nah … now you only have to wait a short while and I’ll have a photo of a maroon trillium for you.

I just have to move it from camera to computer, ‘k?





Flipswap allows merchants to offer credit on cell phone trade-ins

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Have you heard of Flipswap? It’s a new universal buy-back program for cell phones. Business owners can visit the Flipswap Inc. website and sign up for the service.

All business owners need to do is set up the program on a computer that has internet access and they are ready to begin using Flipswap.

The Flipswap program allows merchants to offer rebates to their customers who want to trade in their current cellphone. Presumably the customer will be trading in their cell phone in order to purchase a brand new one from the store. Win win – the business offers a service that makes their customer happy, and if all goes well they make a sale when a customer purchases a new mobile phone.

The merchant will be able to use the web based software to look up guaranteed quotes for the mobile phone that their customer wants to trade in. The software works like a blue book and gives a trade-in value for any phone – in any condition.

Once the merchant knows the trade in value of the phone they can issue a store credit to their customer.

Flipswap also provides their clients with pre-paid shipping labels so they make it easy for merchants to send used phones to the Flipswap warehouse where the old phones will be refurbished and used domestically, abroad, or recycled. Naturally Flipswap also reimburses the merchant for the trade in value that the merchant passed on to their customer.

If you own a store and you sell mobile phones look into the Flipswap service. It sounds like a fantastic idea to me.

Crank – The Movie

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As I mentioned in an earlier post I haven’t been feeling very well over the last week, and especially through the weekend.

So what have I been doing? Well .. I have been working a very little bit behind the scenes on our sites, but mostly I was lying on the couch trying to feel better.

Since there isn’t much on TV now that most of the shows have had their season finale I’ve been paying more attention to what’s on the movie network. We’ve been paying extra to have the movie networks as part of our cable package for years, but I must admit we really can’t justify the expense as we don’t tend to watch movies very often.

200px-crank_final.jpg That’s about to change.

On Saturday we ended up watching a movie that I think I taped Friday evening on the DVR.

The movie was Crank, a 2006 action/thriller film, written and directed by both Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The Lions Gate Films-produced film stars Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Efren Ramirez, and Dwight Yoakam.

Chris and I both loved this film.

This action filled movie got my adrenaline pumping:

Summary from Wikepedia

After Chev Chelios, a hit man, completed a job, he wakes up hallucinating, finding himself extremely uncomfortable. He plays a DVD message from a rival hit man who reveals that Chev has been injected with a mysterious poison known as the “Beijing Cocktail” and he has only an hour to live. Chev soon realizes that the poison can only be slowed by his own adrenaline. With what little time Chev has left alive, he plans to get his revenge on the people who injected him with the poison. He must fight and race all throughout Los Angeles to say goodbye to his girlfriend, Eve, while keeping his adrenaline pumping. He will face-off against his employers at every turn as he searches for an antidote to save his life.

I really wasn’t all that sure in the beginning if I’d like it or not. The hallucinating, out of it scenes in the beginning made me feel that I wouldn’t enjoy this movie but I was totally wrong. I loved it. As you watch the movie you just get hooked, and by the end you almost don’t want it to end.

I rarely say this, but I could have watched this movie again right after the first viewing ended.

I don’t know if this film is still showing on the movie channels this month, but I do believe that it’s out on DVD, so if you’re looking for a good movie to watch look for Crank.

The Winnie The Pooh Store – a collectors dream

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Almost every child receives a teddy bear as a gift when they are a baby, and some children end up with collections of teddy bears and soft toys that they continue to build upon well into adulthood.

One of our close friends is a teddy bear collector. She’s actually devoted two whole rooms of her large house to her collection as it’s just that huge. She must have more than 1000 bears of all sizes!

If you are a collector of Teddy Bear and or Winnie The Pooh related products, or perhaps would like to purchase a Winnie the Pooh bear gift for a small child and encourage a child’s love of all things teddy bear, you might be interested in visiting Beartoday.com.

Bear Today specializes in traditional teddy bears by Steiff and Gund and carries the whole Winnie The Pooh collection of Teddy Bears, soft toys and games. Bear Today has offices in both the USA and the UK.

I’ve been a Winnie the Pooh fan since childhood, but surprisingly I don’t believe that I ever had a Winnie The Pooh teddy bear. Perhaps it’s time I got one? I’m sure kids today love Winnie The Pooh teddy bears and his companions Pigglet, Tigger, Eeyore and other characters that are scattered throughout the classic animated shows and books as much as I did when I was young and in fact, if I must confess, still do today.

If you visit beartoday.com you’ll find that you can purchase the whole line of licensed Winnie The Pooh products. You can find classic and vintage Winnie The Pooh items on the site. I’ve found the prices range to be quite reasonable, and the products are all high end and of the highest quality made by respectable and well known “teddy bear” manufactures such as Gund.

You’ll also find that Bear Today carries other classic teddy bear collectibles such as Paddington bears, as well as giftware, stationary, greeting cards, birthday cards, posters, books and other items.

I’m actually quite amazed at the expanse of their collection. Not only can you find quality Winnie The Pooh products, but you can also find items from Humphreys Corner, Max and Ruby, Dora the Explorer, Sesame Street, Beatrix Potter, Disney and many others.

Just browsing through the collection brought back great childhood memories of all the things I used to love when I was young.

Visit the store if you need gift ideas for a baby, child or a bear collector.

Alanis Morissette sings National anthems before Hockey Game

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Did you see the beginning of the hockey game? (yes Ottawa lost). Alanis Morissette sang the national US and Canadian anthems before the start of game 4.

I thought it was pretty good. She has such a unique voice I was afraid she might get carried away but I liked her versions of both anthems. I think she let a little more of her personal style into the Canadian anthem, but she’s a Canadian from Ottawa so that’s allowed.

Did anyone else catch her performance?

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