PRECISION FLOORING
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™
Reliable news for healthy living, saving money, and having fun! December 2015
“Precise, local and personable”
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
-John and Sarah Wolfe
www.precisionflooringtruckee.com
Inside This Issue…
 Are you this month’s Mystery
Winner?
 Holidays this Month
 The Longest Journeys
 Mega Trivia Contest
 The Ig-Nobel Prize
 Client of the month
 Personalize Your Office Space
 New Year’s Eve Round the
World
 Welcome to our new and
returning clients!
Attention
Brian Kehoe!
You are this month’s
Mystery Winner!
We have a $10.00 Wild Cherries
gift card reserved just for you!
Come by our store to
claim your prize!
Thank you very much for supporting our canned food drive for Project
MANA! We collected over 75 cans to donate to this local food bank so that they
can restock their shelves after a busy start to the holiday season. We appreciate the
donations.
For December, we are going to be supporting another local non-profit, the
Family Resource Center. We will be offering a 50/50 sale. For every $2,000 you
spend on flooring, Precision Flooring will donate $50 to the Family Resource
Center of Truckee and give you $50 off your purchase. At the Family Resource
Center of Truckee, their motto is “Building Community One Family at a Time”.
We believe that the group is a wonderful resource to our town. To learn more
about them, visit www.truckeefrc.org
We wish everyone a wonderfully snowy holiday!
Your Friends,
John & Sarah
John and Sarah Wolfe
May the
“floors” be
with you!
Holidays This Month:
Sunday December 6th to
Monday December 14th
Hanukkah
Tuesday December 22nd
Winter Solstice
Friday December 25th
Christmas
Saturday December 26th
Boxing Day
Thursday December 31st
New Year’s Eve – Happy 2016!
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The Longest Journeys
Wool Carpet: Affordable Luxury
The natural beauty of wool carpeting cannot
be matched. We have several brands of wool
carpet that are priced affordably.
Benefits of wool include:
• Natural, bio-degradable fiber
• Renewable and sustainable resource
• Requires 1/3 to 1/6 the energy to produce
as other carpet fibers
• Ideal for those with allergies (other than
pet dander), acts as a natural air-purifier
• Naturally flame-retardant
• Natural air-conditioner that helps control
indoor humidity levels
• Enhances the value of your home
Come check out our extensive wool
selection!
Win dinner for two at the
FiftyFifty Brewing Co!
Take our Trivia Challenge
and you could win!
This month’s MegaTrivia question….
Which of these cities has the
largest population?
A New York City; B) Mexico City;
C) Delhi, India; D) Jakarta, Indonesia;
or E) Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan.
To enter, send an email to
[email protected] with
“Mega Trivia Contest” in the subject line.
Take your best guess…your chances of
winning are better than you think! The correct
answers will be compiled and a drawing will
be held on Friday, December 18th. Winner
will be notified by email. Prize is a $75 gift
card to FiftyFifty Brewing Company in
Truckee. And don’t worry - your email
address will not be used for any other
purpose (marketing or otherwise), only for
contest entry.
We’re approaching
our longest night here
in the northern
hemisphere, but with
the solstice the
daylight hours begin to
lengthen again.
In a few weeks the skies will fill with the creatures who
journey as the seasons turn: the robins, wrens and most
distinctive of all, the v-shaped flocks of Canada geese with their
unique calls.
Each fall, Monarch
Butterflies make the
journey from Canada to
the southern States or
Mexico, a distance of
some 3,000 miles.
These journeys aren’t only for those with wings. Some
creatures travel great distances over land, mostly in response to
the presence or absence of food. The great Serengeti Migration
in Africa involves millions of wildebeest and their fellow travelers
in a circular trek over 1,800 miles long.
But the distance champion in the world of migrations remains
the Arctic tern, who travels almost pole to pole, Greenland to
Antarctica, for a round trip of 44,000 miles or 71,000 kilometers.
These little birds can live 30 years or more, so over the course
of its lifetime, an arctic tern will migrate around one and a half
million miles (almost two and a half million kilometers). That’s
about three trips to the moon and back again!
Answer to last month’s quiz: “Horse”
Congratulations to last month’s
winner: Amber Bohnet
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Thank You For The
Kind Words!
The Ig-Nobel Awards
“We were very impressed with the
installation and customer service we
received from Precision Flooring. We
were greeted by knowledgeable and
pleasant people. Sarah and John
answered every phone call”
- Caroline V., Squaw Valley
Thank You to
Our Clients!
Welcome to our new and
returning clients!
Alexander, J
Baikie, M
Bjorklund, P
Brannon, K
Brew, D
Chase, A
Degenhardt, C
Dimitras, A
Dunlap, J
Gage, K
Hannah, B
Henry, B
Heridia, A
Kang, S
Lay, M
Lefanowicz, K
Markus, D
McNamara, C
Mick Horn Construction
Missall, M
Nashner, M
Northstar Resort
Omski-Talwar, A
One Village Place
Painter, D
Reifers, J
Ryan, C
Shaw, E
Shin, S
Teittinen, C
Welling Construction
West, E
Wilkinson, J
Zuckerman, S
A gigantic THANK YOU to
all who referred us last
month……We appreciate
the confidence you have
in Precision Flooring!
Have you heard of the annual Ig-Nobel Awards? Modeled on the
Nobel Prizes, they are dedicated to the achievements that make
people laugh and then make them think. Here are some of the
winners:
Medicine - Alan Kligerman, inventor of Beano, for his work with
anti-flatulence liquids.
Chemistry - Ivette Bassa, for the invention of bright blue Jell-O.
Psychology - Shigeru Watanabe, Junko Sakamoto, and Masumi
Wakita of Keio University, for training pigeons to tell the difference
between the paintings of Monet and Picasso.
Art - Don Featherstone of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, for the
invention of the plastic pink flamingo.
Physics - Robert Matthews of England for studying Murphy's Law
and showing that toast does often fall on the buttered side.
Computer Science - Chris Niswander of Arizona for the software
PawSense, which detects a cat walking across your keyboard.
Physics - Andre Geim of the Netherlands and Michael Berry of
England, for the levitation of a frog.
Peace - Daisuke Inoue of Japan for the invention of karaoke.
Physics - Lianne Parkin, Sheila Williams, and Patricia Priest of New
Zealand for showing that people slip and fall less often on icy surfaces
if they wear socks outside their shoes
Probability -Bert Tolkamp, Marie Haskell, Fritha Langford, David
Roberts, and Colin Morgan, who found that the longer a cow has been
lying down, the more likely it will stand up, but that once it stands up,
you cannot readily predict when it will lie down again.
Arctic science -Eigil Reimers and Sindre Eftestøl for studying how
reindeer react to humans disguised as polar bears.
Literature -Mark Dingemanse, Francisco Torreira, and Nick J.
Enfield, for discovering that a word equivalent to "huh?" seems to
exist in every language, though they could not determine why.
The Ig-Nobel Awards are the brainchild of Marc Abrahams, editor
and co-founder of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research.
The awards are handed out by actual Nobel Prize winners.
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Personalize Your Office Space
Client of the Month
Whether you work at home or away from home, having a work space
to call your own is vital to your well-being and productivity.
Though you might not need a
piano beside your desk for
inspiration, it is important to
personalize your work area
with items that have meaning
for you, whether they’re
photos, artwork or stuffed
animals. Plants have a
beneficial influence as well.
Studies have proven that sterile cubicle-offices have a detrimental
effect on productivity. So keep it clean and tidy, but don’t hold back on
the personal touches!
New Year’s Eve
Round the World
Noisemakers and fireworks, popping champagne and watching the
ball drop – New Year’s Eve is celebrated all sorts of ways. Here are
some different customs from around the planet:
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In Stonehaven Scotland, paraders swing balls of fire on a rope
People break plates on their neighbors’ doorsteps in Denmark
In Turkey, people wear red underwear
Folks in Brazil serve lentils for luck
Romanian farmers try communicating with their animals
Celebrators in Venice have a mass kiss-in
In Spain, people eat twelve grapes at midnight, one with each
stroke of the clock, to bring luck in the coming year
Taking your empty suitcase for a walk in Ecuador guarantees
you a holiday in the coming year
Congratulations to our client of
the month, Barbara Hannah.
Over the last 5 months, Barbara
and her husband Tom have been
working on refreshing their
Donner Lake home. We have
provided them with new Shaw
carpet and Reward hardwood.
We wish the Hannah family
many, many years of happy
memories in their lovely cabin.
Thanks, Barbara!
As always, our clients of the
month receive a $10 gift card to
Wild Cherries Coffee House in
Truckee.
Watch for your name here in
a coming month!
Information
About Us
11357 Donner Pass Rd., Ste E
(Next to New Moon Natural Foods)
Truckee, CA 96161
(530) 587-0102
www.precisionflooringtruckee.com
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Buying flooring is different than buying any other piece of interior
décor, such as a sofa or a lamp. Why? Because unlike other
products, flooring is installed or “manufactured” in your home. This
makes the installation critical. We offer a lifetime installation
warranty at Precision Flooring. You NEVER have to worry about
something going wrong with the installation. If it does, we’ll fix it
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