Modern Vespa

An Italian Christmas cake and a neckwarmer/headwarmer/scarf-type thing. Truly cool. Our exchange student had one of those scarf-things and I thought it was pretty slick, now, in the cold MN winter, I'll be just a bit more comfortable (and a few calories heavier!)

Also cat approved!

Thanks Max6200! (OK, it was a 'Max' from Wichita, I'm assuming it was Max6200!)

Now...Philip...what is your MV name?

That would be Knight Train in San Diego. Enjoy the wine!

Sent my gift package off today. I may have gone somewhat over the price guidelines, but I'm sure all will be forgiven.

One component of the gift should be an excellent accessory for the recipient's scooter based on an earlier MV thread.

The only bummer is the Post Office tells me that first class to the UK will take up to two weeks! Sure, that's still well before Christmas, but since I'm pretty sure the package will go by air rather than by truck, train, and boat, what's with two weeks?!

It's going in the mail!

huh?

Gift arrived from William P: indigenous Dayton, Ohio potato chips and a book by Oakland's infamous bad boy Sonny Barger. (Sonny was born in Modesto, CA but gained fame as the head of the Oakland Chapter of Hell's Angels. I grew up in the "Oak town" so the Angels were part of the local color, as it were.)

Thanks!

one slightly hidden Lagniappe...

I love that word

I got mine a few days ago but it's wrapped so need to stash it under the tree for a few weeks. Sent mine out today we're all set!

No, no, no....it a December gift exchange. Open the present, open the present!!!

OK OK! (Didn't need much arm twisting did I?)

The card says it all - Thank you TikiChaser!

I love scooter swag!

Love checking this thread.

That's ironic.

Everything but one item in the package I'm sending out was either made in my apartment, or about 3/4 a mile away from it.

I love this thread too. The Vespa "Thank You" notes were tres cool.

I felt a little guilty. My beneficiary is a San Diegan. I just couldn't see sending him something that if he really wanted he could get himself. Hence the bottle of Il Burchino. Now, the thing about Il Burchino is that the wine house in Tuscany where it comes from has two main estates. One of which is in Pontedara where, well you know what else comes from Pontedara. ..And I had the wine shipped from a San Diego shop. Consequently there is a total symbiotic relationship.

and that wasn't lost on me...thanks again Knight Train!

That reminds me of something that happened about 18 years ago.I am a metalsmith/jeweler and I ordered some descaler for one of my tumbling units. It was not that nasty of a chemical.... if you got it on your hands, you wanted to wash it off but it was not going to burn you are anything. It was one of the more gentle chemicals that I used. I get home from work and there was a rather cryptic and stressed voicemail from a neighbor asking me to come and get my "package". I walk over, she had the cars moved outside and this box was sitting alone in the middle of the garage floor.... with bright black and yellow striped caution and hazmat tape ALL OVER IT LOL!!!! Boy did she look worried. I told her what it was and later I actually showed her. Up until then I think she thought I was building bombs in the basement or something. Oh my. When I saw the excessive and completely over the top tape job they did on it. I could understand her concern. She could not understand why I was laughing so hard though, not at first anyway LOL

just recived mine

I just got home from a trip to the post office and a few other errands. Someone, in my birth state, should be receiving a box of sunshine in the next few days.

Janine

And some products that result from the same 'hot' sun (though a different part of the world) will be hitting your doorstep next week...

Desi B.