Beware of buying second hand bikes!

My Electric Bike was stolen last week.  I want to warn the thief that the bike is due for a full overhaul.  It is a dangerous to ride it for more than a week the condition it is in.

1. The spokes are coming off of the tires.
2. The brakes need to be replaced.
3. The battery even though it looks good needs to be charged very often.
4. The seat is frayed.
5. The paint job is chipped and very dirty.
All that I found was a piece of the lock where the cowardly thieves cut through it.

I want everyone to beware of buying this bike.  It is a White Green Bike, with a black battery 15W.   If you see it on  any resale sites, http://www.yad2.co.il/ especially for a very low price  then it is probably mine.

The police are swamped with stolen bikes, computers, iphones, you name it, and they don't have the manpower to follow up on leads.

I would caution anyone buying any bikes on resale sites 2nd hand as you don't really know if it is stolen merchandise or not.  It is best to buy from a store.
If you do buy 2nd hand demand to see the original receipt and warranty for the bike.

Grow your own! . . . Garlic! - Life on a Shoestring

Everything is getting more and more expensive.  This is a fact of life, and has been for the past couple of hundred years.  But there are some ways that we can beat the high costs of living.  One way is to grow your own food.  I have a porch that gets some sun, and I have a potted olive tree that I have had for over 10 years.  This year it is giving olives!

 But is post is about Garlic!  It is easy to grow your own and you don't have to wait 10 years!  Not that I was counting anyway!




How do you grow your own garlic?  First you take a piece of garlic that you bought at the market. My package like almost everything else nowadays. is from . . . wait for it ,  is from China! 



Now, take one piece, if it is growing already it is ok, put the green part upwards in the pot.  If the piece of garlic has not grown, like mine here, then put the cut off  (flat end) end down in the pot first. 
 This is a piece of garlic after about a month.  Your Garlic needs a bit of water every two days, the pot has to get the water out the bottom.  Clip off the flowers if you don't want it to produce seeds.


 Wait about 10 months until the green at the top dies, then take out the garlic, dry it for about a week, where it gets a bit of breeze.

If you want more information go here; http://www.wikihow.com/Grow-Garlic-Indoors-in-a-Pot

Have fun growing your own!!!

Rachael Alice