Uranium Mining Trailer and a few other things

Some of you may know about the uranium mining/milling issues facing our area of Colorado. A local group has put together a trailer for a longer documentary being shot on the subject.

I am interviewed toward the end of the trailer (I may have even donated the title from my comments).

It is still in draft form, but is available on YouTube at Trailer 012209 .


On another TOTALLY unrelated subject the laundry room makeover has gone through a makeover. After installing the broom cabinet, instead of putting shelves above the wine cooler, another cabinet will go in. Stay tuned.

Also the dovetails on the kitchen step stool turned out pretty nice, but Marlys wants it finished to match the cabinets and we all know how well I have done in staining maple.

Picture this: Late Saturday afternoon sitting at the kitchen table watching "Transformers" and sipping gimlets from cut crystal lowball glass. Who says the rustic life always has to be rustic. Yes there are many things wrong/unusual about this picture.

Now that Marlys has added this concoction to her repertoire (along with Margaritas) she may have a second career as a barkeep.

A weekend in Parker

Last weekend due to a wheel bearing failure on the Audi we stayed in Parker. We have only been here on weekends three time, that we could remember, since building the house in 2006.

We weren't thrilled and I could tell that the Duster wasn't either.

We did though have a chance to go to the Bradford Washburn Mountaineering Museum at the American Mountaineering Center in Golden. It is a small museum, but pretty interesting and the large format pictures taken by Washburn, that appear in several places, are pretty amazing.

The museum tracks mountaineering from its earliest recorded events, to the near present. Looking at some of the gear used at the beginning of the last century, it surprised us that any of the peaks were climbed. This is especially true of the women climbers with some of the Colorado Mountain Clubs pictures from 1913 showing them climbing in mid-calf dress' and hobnailed high heel boots.

We did walk around Parker quite a bit and took some pictures of houses, whose paint schemes we like as possibilities for Pinon Rock the next time, although the paint we used in 06' is supposedly guaranteed for life, I have my doubts based on the altitude and the UV's it is taking on a daily basis.

There is actually a place on the main drag in Woodland that has the best three color scheme, but I haven't taken a picture of it yet.

Even though we have only been away from the place for a week, I can't wait to get back up there.

And yes, the videos taken by my cell phone suck.

A Great Woodworking story

I found a number of things to take away after reading this story about Dilo. The first and foremost for me as hobby woodworker is to forget setting a deadline.

http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/woodnews/2009january/dilo.html

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