City Shop Direct Blog February Archive

You have many things to think about when buying tires for your car or truck

By Ted at 02/23/09 08:26

If you were like me, you didn't put a whole lot of thought into what kind of tire you needed to buy for your car. All you knew was that your tires were getting too low on tread and you needed new ones.

I was getting ready to tell the salesman I just wanted a set of regular old radials; and he actually taught me a fe things instead.

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I loved all the snow we got in Oil City

This video is of me and my German Shepherds Maggie and Luna playing in the snow in our front yard. As you can see in the video, when I fell down on purpose, I was completely covered in snow and you could barely see me sticking out.

These dogs absolutely love to play catch with anything you will throw in the snow. They are covered almost to their backs in the front yard by the close to two feet of snow we got all at once.

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Check the contents of organic makeup for damaging chemicals

Last month I was at the store looking for a new cover up to try. I decided to try this new organic makeup. I think it’s great to have a makeup that’s made up of all natural plants or minerals. I decided to research the makeup, to see if it actually made a difference if it was organic or not.

I found that organic makeup is just as bad for your skin because plants can have natural toxins in them that can actually damage your skin.

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Stimulus has to come from us in the end

I am so tired of reading the news and hearing on TV about the stimulus package and what the government has to do do fix the economy. Well government does not really have the power to fix the problem in my opinion.

The problem with the economy comes from multiple directions and the domino effect is being felt all over the world. Government is part of the problem to begin with.

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Heated water buckets - automatic waterers - or plain old buckets?

I currently own three horses which are all stall kept. One of the three is in a stall that has an outside paddock that he can freely come and go out into. The other two horses get regular turnout when I rotate them into that stall for exercise.  I am currently considering

I board my horses at a facility but  do some of the routine care when I go every other day to ride all year round. I am wondering how I can address the issue of watering my horses in the best way possible.

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Is 365 Sports Program for international sports competitions real?Spo

My daughter, Kelly, is in 10th grade at Oil City High School and played JV basketball this year.

Near the end of her season, we received a letter from 365 Sports inviting her to be in a summer program in 2009 and then take a trip to Switzerland or one other place this summer to compete internationally.

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What is your horse lover's Bucket List?

If you saw the movie, "The Bucket List", you got a great idea of making a list of things that you want to try before you die. I guess dying is not a very good subject...so we will say a list of things you want to try with your horse in your lifetime.

Every horse owner has a dream of doing something different with his or her horse...maybe just once..but you want to try.  What are ten things you want most to try with your horse?  Write them here even if you are dreaming wildly!  Here are mine:

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Having the greatest scrapbooking tools can't alone make you a great scrapbooker

Let's face it folks, some of us are just not as creative as others. I am having trouble with my ability to sit down and come with a great scrapbook page, even though I would definitely say I do have creativity in my bones.

I mean to tell you, I have every scrapbook gadget known. I have scrapbooks, I have sheet protectors, I have great background paper, great pictures, colorful paper for squares and shapes, pretty ribbon, brads, stickers out the wazoo, and still.....I cannot sit down and put all the elements together into one spiffy page!  Arrr it is so frustrating!

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The big 3 automakers give us an example of why our economy is in the dumps

Take for example the leaders of the 3 largest auto makers in the country going to Washington to plead for money to bail out their struggling companies.

Lets see.....how did they arrive there again? Corporate jet? Private limo?

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Why do sick people come to the office?

Are sick people afraid if they don't come to work, they will lose their job? Well maybe, but then again maybe they just want everyone to be as miserable as they are.

Last week, a co-worker comes in who sits like 8 feet from me, and proceeds to snivel and snot all over every surface literally. The sneezing and coughing were about all I could concentrate on. I just wanted to tell her to go the heck home.

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