Back to Work

View from in back of the house (hillside) It’s about time for an update on what’s going on around here! With the CoCoCo a thing of the past you would think that I would be busy with house by now…well…I’m actually just about ready to work...

Increase Your Fuel Mileage

The Honda Insight What constitutes price gouging? How do you define it? If the price varies by 50 cents over the course of a 250 mile trip, is that considered price gouging? If the price varies by 30 cents over a 2 mile area, is that considered price gouging? In the...

227 CoCoCo Nuts

The 2005 Continental Cordwood Conference How often do you get to meet Richard Flatau, Jack Henstridge, Rob Roy, Cliff Shockey and Dr. Kris Dick all in one place? What an incredible event and opportunity! Words cannot express what a wonderful feeling it was to have so...

Birds of a Feather

To see a few more photographs, click here. As the saying goes “Birds of a feather often flock together” and to my surprise four Sandhill Cranes (two adults and two offspring) leisurely strolled down a county road not too far from our house the other...

Happy Birthday Solar PV System!

It’s been one year now since we started producing solar power and I am happy to report that for the year ending May 31, 2005 we were able to finish the year with a surplus. In other words we produced more power than we consumed. Granted, the house is not fully...

You’ve Got to be Kitten

Mom with her day-old kitties Well, I guess the top headline for this journal entry has to be about four newborn kitties. The kittens were born during the weekend of May 14-15. One of them is mostly black, another a mottled-black brown, a gray and a calico. They all...