2009.09.04 updated with URLs for equipment (see bottom of post) Since we’ve been married, Samantha and I have lived off the grid. We don’t have any utility bills and we haven’t had a single power outage. However, today (September 3rd, 2000) still marks a big day for us in our off the grid living. Because today we connected our new batteries and solar setup to our house. We now have over 30x the electrical storage capacity! Energy during the day
We’re back from our Colorado vacation and WOW, everything is amazingly green here in Missouri! For August, this is the most lush I ever remember seeing the vegetation. There must have been some serious rains while we were gone. The following photo is meant to show the almost jungle like state of the forest around here ;-). Hopefully we will have a lot of black walnuts this year! The pine trees I planted, which are about three years old, grew
Transportation in Hawaii Our plan of attack for our two month trip to Hawaii continues to coalesce. So far things are proceeding nicely and there aren’t too many things left to do. On island transportation is one of our final hurdles remaining. We want to do a significant amount of walking, biking and hiking while we’re on the big island. This will help us get some nice exercise as well as saving some big bucks on car rentals. I’m particularly
Just jotting down a few notes here: Our winter vacation to Hawaii is coming together, I’m slowly checking items off the list flights booked, at what appears to be a nice low price (the cheapest I’ve ever booked for Hawaii) accommodations for the first half of the trip Some things are still left to do: rent a car book accomodations for the 2nd half of the trip Ines and Greg may come to Hawaii too! That would be totally awesome…
I’ve started the following chinup program: Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Set 1 6 7 8 8 9 10 10 11 12 12 13 14 14 15 16 16 17 18 18 19 20 20 21 22 22 23 24 24 25 26 Set 2 5 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 8
http://theurbanophile.blogspot.com/2009/07/st-louis-city-garden-and-millennium.html Gelateriata Volini – a three minute walk from John’s, and I stopped in here about 6 times :-). They have a nice assortment of gelato and some good coffees/teas too. City Museum – much more exciting than it sounds! PS here is a cool link Jesse sent me: http://thechive.com/2008/12/amazing-close-ups-pics-of-plants-31-photos/ (it’s not STL related, but it fits with the “link” theme of this post :-)) Top Search Terms:j.d. hodges samantha (1)msi 9130 (1)
Ohh, it is so nice to be back home :-). We were just gone for 4 days but it seems like a week and a half. The trip was a lot of fun, but I am just glad to be back home! Here is a photo from the hundreds we took for Kevin and Shannon’s engagement photoshoot: that particular photo is by Samantha, it was one of my absolute favorites from the day. More to be posted after Kevin and
Hope everyone is having a splendid 4th! 🙂 Here are a few photos from tonight: Top Search Terms:exede hawaii (2)hawaii 4th of july (1)july+4th+in+hawaii (1)