Archive for March, 2009


March 23, 2009

Earth Hour 2009




On Saturday, March 28, at 8:30 PM local time, supporters of Earth Hour (and hopefully you, too) will be powering down the lights in their homes and offices for one hour. We’re taking it a step further and powering down everything at our place for that hour, made even more interesting because we’ll be in the middle of a dinner here with 10 or so friends when it happens. We may even podcast our conversations by candlelight, or in the dark.

How about you? Will you be participating?

Pass it on. http://www.earthhour.org

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March 15, 2009

One hundred miles north


Black Rock Desert

Our plans for a modern farm table design included a central inset – an oblong, built-in hot-plate – made entirely of collected rocks. So yesterday we jumped in the truck and drove north to Pyramid Lake and the Black Rock Desert to see what we could find.

Nanook ended up stealing most of that show, so happy to be out running somewhere without fences and leashes, and we didn’t end up doing very much rockhounding. But it was a beautiful day, and we enjoyed the peace and quiet of two areas that don’t attract much human attention for ten months of the year.

More photos here. My favorites were this, this and this.

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March 8, 2009

Map Project

Shane and I bought a wall-sized map a few months ago, and yesterday we broke it out and spread it across the table. We each took an ultra-fine, black Sharpie and started tracing the roads we’ve traveled on. After about an hour, we still had 3/4 of the map left to go. This shot taken about 10 minutes in.

{Another view}

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March 7, 2009

Winter in Chicago

Last Thursday I hopped a plane from Reno to Chicago to meet up with some good friends, some of them fellow writers, to talk shop, bat ideas around and enjoy a jolt of the creative energy that comes from switching environments and spending time surrounded by like-minded people. I got what I came for.

I slept most of the flight out, a non-stop on Southwest for under $100, waking here and there over rural eastern Nevada with her sun-tanned wrinkles and charms. I’d sleep again and wake over Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, following choked river channels and glacial moraines and knotty bluffs. By the time I touched down in Chicago I was wide awake, and was later grateful for it on the cab ride to my hotel.

Photos tell the rest of the story from here.

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