Yesterday, I bought a bike trailer at Target .  It was on clearance 50% off.  John had always wanted to take Nathaniel on a bike ride, but never got the chance.  And there I was out and about not looking for one & there they are 50% off.  I got it.  I worked on assembling it, but didn’t get it finished till this AM.

Nathaniel & I headed into town with the purpose of visiting the cemetery, picking up lunch, and getting a book at the library that had been on reserve.  However, when I checked mail, I discovered that a life insurance check had arrived… so heading to the bank to add another NBRS Reward Checking account was added to the list.  To me, life insurance...

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Alabama-based artist Kathleen Nowak Tucci takes rubber bicycle and motorcycle inner tubes and turns them into couture necklaces, bracelets and earrings. So after sitting in my studio for several months, I started to just play with the rubber inner tubes and realized that it was a really interesting material for jewelry. How did you first get involved with making jewelry from recycled rubber. I get the rubber from bicycle shops in Pensacola, Florida, and Mobile, Alabama. I had been experimenting using industrial rubber products such as o-rings to make jewelry. Then I got an idea that needed thin rubber. Where do you get the rubber. Then my mother started to make cookies for the bike shops, and they saved them all for me. They are so happy to see me with the cookies that they even carry the tubes out to the car for me. I think that they are also happy to not have to discard...

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