Tonight Mark and I headed down to Denver to have dinner and see a movie … a treat given to me for my birthday by Scott and Julie. They purchased tickets to see the documentary Objectified at the Mayan Theater (which has a full bar by the way – and serves wine in real glasses). [...]
I’m occasionally an early adopter – and with some products (Sony minidisc) I end up in a technology dead-end. But with the AppleTV I couldn’t be happier. It’s a great way to play music for my living room and as Apple has released software updates, it has gotten even better, with movie downloads, rentals, Flickr [...]
Saturday we spent some time in our backyard enjoying the 70 degree weather … This morning we woke up to a blizzard… Hopefully the trees weren’t tricked!
After a few scorching summers on our South facing back patio, we came to the conclusion that we needed a shade structure. We were lucky enough that Kevin had a contact that he worked with in Montana who supplied reclaimed lumber. Reclaimed lumber is wood that has been salvaged from old warehouses and may have [...]
Remember so many months back how excited we were to get Solar panels installed – oh the joy of a new karma-positive addition to our home? Well, within a couple of weeks, we found that some duffer with an overpriced driver (no-one by that description here) had managed to break one of the panels with [...]
Mandy and I consider ourselves moderately environmentally conscious and would like to be more so. We recycle all containers and papers (Mandy occasionally throws around the word nazi when I chide her for putting recyclables in the trash). We started composting – though Lola has decided that compost is the most intriguing thing ever and [...]