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If you’re passing through Wendover, UT on your way across Interstate 80 and you’d like some lunch and you don’t want to give your money to the casino robber barons of Wendover, NV – you can get a great meal and support the locals at “Garlic and Onions”. The carne asada tacos with rice and… Continue reading Local Wendover lunch

Elk Mountain stands out south of I-80, east of Rawlins. This stretch of the highway is reknown for snowing over. The state has installed miles of snow fences in an attempt to reduce the amount of snowfall drifting onto the highway, with only small effect apparently. With the tailwind as I head east, I’m getting… Continue reading Elk Mountain – head in the clouds

The tourist traffic is clearly reduced this time of year. Interstate 80 isn’t the ribbon of cars traveling east and west. The salt flats are brown and soft. The brown is a fine powder that might be from the blowing dust. It’s been a dry winter. But they are soft when walked on. Footprints are… Continue reading Salt flats in January.

Storm is blowing in as I head east on interstate 80. The bands of clouds rolling across the sky are sharply delineated. Temperature about 54°.

A use for spent brewing grains.

This weekend was the 2 concerts of the chorus.  Haydn’s “The Creation”. With soloists and orchestra.  It was fun and I sang well and the event got a blurb in the local paper. The blurb doesn’t mention Christa Pfeiffer, the other soprano that sang the part of “Eve”.  She was stunning. Very expressive  both vocally… Continue reading Chorus concert – season finale

Lost 2 squash plants to gophers a couple days ago.  They dug up to the plant and ate it. Entirely.  Not a trace left.

The garden is coming along. But it’s raining today! This is, by all local accounts, a very late spring.  That we’re getting rains this late in the spring is very unusual.  Anyway… Here’s where things were on May 9: It had just been tilled with the tractor.  Nice puffy dirt! All the weeds chewed up. … Continue reading Garden … moister than usual

It was a great day. Overcast in the morning, but clear and sunny by 10:30 or so.  The hosts provided breakfast and lunch (catered mostly; some potluck action, too.). Got there around 9:00 and saw the framed buildings and 3 large stacks of bales of hay.  Rice hay it was.  People were gathering.  Things got… Continue reading The bale-raising

I’ve been included on an invitation to a “bale raising”.   Next Saturday (May 15).  I’m going! The purpose of a straw-bale raising is to shape and place the bales of straw (which are far more energy-efficient than conventional framing) into the framework of the house. We’d really appreciate having your help! (or just your company… Continue reading A “Bale-Raising”