Showing posts with label wheelchair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wheelchair. Show all posts

Friday, July 22, 2016

Friday Hunt, 2016.2-5

It is Friday, and Teresa is back with her fun meme, Friday Hunt. The clues this week are here, and I am happy to comply with these unique items. So I am ready :)

Starts with 'D'. I am going with my main form of ambulation, my trusty 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan. With its Braun conversion, it allows travel for mysel and my wheelchair. So my entry is my steed, the top pic being taken on Wednesday in Ansonia. Here, it looks as innocuous as any Dodge Minivan. However, I am also adding the ramp sequence as it deploys (i.e.: opens). The pics were taken in 2010 - but the process remains as is...

Week's Favorite. Here is the new playground at the Ansonia Nature and Recreation. After the old playground had to be demolished in April due to its structural degradation (built in 1993), a number of volunteer efforts helped to begin the construction of a new playground. The main benefactor was the Seymour CT based Basement Systems, whose CEO and employees financed the project and volunteered their time and paid for the materials along with the efforts of the local United Way's corporate volunteer council - and completed on Sunday. There are grant applications to add the ADA features of ramps and such. We covered the story in our Valley-Voice newsletter yesterday...

Summer or Winter. Given that the heat dome that has plagued the midwest is shifting east toward New England today, I chose Winter, this view taken out the front door on 27 January 2011. I now feel cooler...




Friday, April 8, 2016

Shadow Shot Sunday - Find the red sweater...

We are back for Shadow Shot Sunday 2. Yesterday, I had to get a repair to the specialized steering in my driver wheelchair van, a 200 Dodge Grand Caravan. Not that I was happy with the $485.00 bill, but better safe than sorry. It is at the shop that performed the conversion of my van, Advanced Wheels, about an hour north of home. 

But while the repair/maintenance was being performed, I took my simple Canon point-and-shoot camera to capture pics of the new vans in the back lot and in the showroom - and I thought of this meme for what I'd take, and I thought finding me, in the red sweater, might make it more interesting. So here are three that fit the bill, although looking in the headlight may be a challenge to find me...

I really wanted to drive the red Town and Country home - but was dissuaded by the $56K price alas. I approached this theme  in a post back in 2011 and oddly, I was in red back then too. The past is prologue some say...