Daily Archives: June 26, 2015

Great Work, Music, Woolly Mammoths

Dazzle

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Summer                                                           Healing Moon

Looking forward to seeing Tom and Roxann Crane tonight at Dazzlejazz. They’re in town for a few days, then Tom has some work here. We’ll see the Ken Walker sextet at this Colorado jazz institution. Good food, too.

Here’s a thought for all you eco-minded folks, Arcadia Power. The High Country News, a journal of liberal/progressive thought about the West published in Paonia, Colorado recommended them and I’ve taken some time to research their business model. They take the bill from your utility company, then buy renewable energy certificates to completely offset your usage. It raises your bill about 1.5 cents a kilowatt, but it means your energy use comes from sustainable energy products. Or, supports an equivalent amount of sustainable energy, either way you want to look at it.

 

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Aurora

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Summer                                                                       Healing Moon

Dawn comes slowly here, starting far off in the plains of eastern Colorado, rising to Denver, then over the foothills and finally vaulting the mountains to come to us here on Shadow Mountain. Since we’re still in the days immediately following the Summer Solstice, it comes early and stays late, light coming around 5:30 and dwindling around 9 p.m.

Today Jon is coming to get started on the built-in bookshelves. I’ve moved plastic bins and table bottoms to consolidate their footprint. Then, I’ll begin moving books off the temporary Ikea shelving, collect them by topic area and collect them on the floor until the new shelving is ready for them.

Kate’s started mowing the grass for fire mitigation. We don’t have a yard but there are clumps of native grasses that need to be kept short. Sometime this summer I’ll begin on the forest thinning to create those ten foot canopy spaces. I’m looking forward to that.

Conifer Plumbing pulled out of our generator install so I have to find a new plumber. Weird. All part of getting into a new place however. We had plumbers and repair people in Andover, but it took time to find them and come to trust them. The same process applies here.