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The ravages of time

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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.

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Give a Photo Mosiac as a gift

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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.

Sofies TV blew up!

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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!

Publicity Guaranteed gets your company noticed

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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.

A soon to be extinct Human form

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One of the Canadian television shows that I enjoy watching is This hour has 22 minutes. Each week they do spoof of the top news stories and often put a uniquely Canadian spin on it.

The video below has a Canadian theme to it- but it’s about something that is happening all over North America, and possibly other parts of the world as well. The Canadian part is that it’s a spoof of a commercial that aired back in the 70’s called Hinter Land Who’s Who – put out by Environment Canada’s Wildlife Services. The 60 second commercials talked about Canadian Wildlife. I remember a lot of Hinter Land commercials about Loons, Owls, deer and Moose.

This one, however is a little bit different. It’s about a type of human that is slowly becoming extinct:



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