This is just wrong, this getting up at 3.30AM. No way is this enough sleep…to go anywhere on, let alone PDX airport and then another airport and onto yet another airport somewhere, someplace halfway down the globe. But then I have invited it upon myself as for a few years I have angled for a trip to Quito, especially if it falls during the school year! Delta’s middle seats are no better than awful, especially when the people sitting either side of you ooze both over and under the seat arms and into your already meager space. It really is too bad that at the very last second an alert ticket agent (who, doing the math at five in the morning finds me five months shy of being age enough to take my assigned seat in the exit row…despite my being near six feet tall and far more athletic than the portly sloth now assigned to it). Portland recedes and Atlanta approaches and then comes Quito but only after being treated to a beautiful sunset as we transect the Florida Keys above Islamorada (more…)
Archive for the ‘Flowers’ Category
As seen@14…Andean Roses
Friday, June 22nd, 2007Good Housekeeping. Good Business
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007My kind of a day, being the last day of the month, on the cusp of Mother’s Day and the May issue of Good Housekeeping giving us a much appreciated accolade. It is to be found on page 130, in a section titled “The Goods”. The long and the short of it being that GHRI tested four big name delivery services with the help of consumer panelists and Mille Fiori Flowers in NYC. Purchasing bouquets as similar as possible and within the same price point the article concludes with the following;
Bottom Line: The only service we recommend is Flowerbud.com. Its bouquets arrived in good condition and lasted for seven days.
Short, sweet and to the point. I love it, while at the same time thinking I might give my eye teeth to know the identity of the three also rans. Remember, my mission is that you do not have to find out!
My Dearest Valentine…the weather gods conspire against us.
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007We had it cracked! Great growers, great orders, great flowers, and now I have a great staff scrambling to notify some great customers of impending late deliveries as atrocious winter weather systems converge on the FedEx shipping hubs east of the Rocky Mts and many of out largest markets. If you read below you will see the bulletin that galvanized me this morning. It is important that we nail “the last mile” down as all the miles proceeding, from as far away as Ecuador and California have been perfect. The thought of the wasting of all that hard work and all those beautiful flowers is disheartening. We are putting our best foot forward and using every insight gained over the past decade to get the very best of this hand just dealt…
FedEx News
National Service Disruption
FedEx Express National Service Disruption for Tuesday, February 14, 2007
Continued severe weather at the Memphis Hub and snow at the Indianapolis Hub has extended the service disruptions for FedEx flight operations. Consistent with the provisions of the FedEx Service Guide, the Money-Back Guarantee is suspended for U.S. domestic packages and shipments inbound into the U.S. from international locations with a delivery commitment of February 14, 2007.
For specific shipment status information, please track your shipment at fedex.com.
Thorny Issues; Rose Quality,Quantity and Prices…
Monday, February 5th, 2007
Here we are again, the week prior to Valentine’s Day and the whole world’s fancy turns to roses, or something akin to that. For the most part the rose growers around the world have done their part and the air freight companies are now in full flight (or attempting full flights) and will be through the week and into the coming weekend when the FedEx squadrons get hit by the huge spike created by the ecommerce players and the usual last minute guys shopping online. Yall know who you are!
Here is your hottest and best tip for Valentine’s day 2007. The world’s best,nee Ecuadorian, two dozen roses, (a growers bunch) red or any other color are available from $99.00 (Mixed Colors) to $125 (red) from now through February 15th 2007. Only at www.flowerbud.com. Read on and you will see why. (more…)
Where patience is no virtue.
Monday, January 15th, 2007The following exerpt by Lance Armstrong from”Saving Your Life” broke the all-time page view record on CNN’s site just this weekend. As some will know Flowerbud.com has been a very active supporter of Mr. Armstrong and his foundation over the years and has contributed many thousands of yellow roses to cancer survivors around the US as they peddle, run and walk across finish lines at the Challenge Series. It has been our privilage to have participated. Last summer at a dinner held In the Tiger Woods building on the Nike Campus in Beaverton, Oregon, Lance Armstrong informed the assembled that with biking now a hobby, lobbying on cancer related issues would be his proffession. Well, as good as his word it looks as if he is now hard at work at the coal-face! We wish him the very best.
Lance Armstrong, one of cycling’s all-time greats and possibly the world’s best known cancer survivor, founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation with the goal of inspiring and empowering people with cancer. He now campaigns for more government funds for cancer research and treatment.
AUSTIN, Texas (CNN) — I’m not known for my patience. Patience is a polite quality and often appropriate, but it rarely gets things done. Impatience, however, is the hunger for results and intolerance for excuses and delays. Impatience got me over countless mountain passes, across the finish line in New York City and through four rounds of ruthless chemotherapy 10 years ago.
Yet this election season I patiently waited to hear a candidate for office explain to constituents what he or she planned to do about one of the leading threats to the health and well-being of all Americans — cancer. My patience was greeted with silence. (more…)