This blog idea is pretty cool, I don't have to write letters or reply to emails, Someone asks me whats up? Go check the blog, I don't have time for this!. Perfect.
Also Picture everything I am writing, in a british accent, with a slight hint of sarcasm.
I have been watching too much Black books.
Anyways instead of hitting refresh on facebook for 20 minutes, or browsing craigslist for shit i don't need and cannot afford, I thought to write on here.
Over the past Six months I have tried a number of times to start a journal, or at least keep some sort of record of my plans and aspirations.
We'll go back to May or so.
I moved back this spring from Halifax, Under weird circumstances I felt the need for change, I left a lot of really amazing people and a great city behind. But my brain was beaten and battered and I needed to have a renewed sense of home. (which might I add is impossible) Langley BC offered me a good amount of opportunity as I knew the owner of a bike shop and he had told me if I come back to bc that he would hook me up with parts and tools to start my own bike shop.
"The Bike Garden" has been operating out of my backyard and then basement over the past 7 months, Its a bike recycling idea, I have been putting up posters and putting leaflets in people mailboxes, asking for donations of old and unloved bikes. The stipulation is that once they donate them, I fix em and give most of them away. Nicer bikes I fix up and sell (for cheap) to stay sustainable. Its a pretty functioning system, as I have probably 60 bikes downstairs, Igiven away over 30 bikes, sold like 20, and have been unemployed since august. We recently Made bike garden T-shirts, and coffee mugs. Artwork by my friend Liz.
No comments:
Post a Comment