October 16, 2008 – 9:19 am
I’ve been making and selling rain barrels made from recycled oak Kentucky bourbon barrels since the spring of 2006, and had some adventures going down to Kentucky twice this spring to pick up and drive back a total of 150 barrels. I’m down to the last 22 barrels of this year’s last batch, and my [...]
October 14, 2008 – 2:44 pm
OK, so I told my wife last year after the November 8th 2007 Neil Young concert I attended at Northrop Auditorium that it would probably be my last big rock show. I had a fabulous time, sneaking on-stage before the show and having a roadie take my picture with one of the stage props (the [...]
October 2, 2008 – 2:13 pm
I’ll be hosting visitors at my home (501 St. Olaf Avenue) this Saturday, October 4th from 10 am to 5 pm for the 13th Annual Minnesota Solar Tour. The Tour is sponsored by the Minnesota Renewable Energy Society, and features about 55 residential, commercial and institutional renewable energy installations statewide. My home, with a 3.04-kilowatt [...]
October 1, 2008 – 8:19 pm
One of my favorite places in the world is the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northeastern Minnesota. Since my first trip to the BWCA with my family as a 13-year-old in 1971, I’ve returned time and again: three times with my Northfield United Methodist Church high school youth group the summers of 1974, 1975 [...]
When I was a freshman in college, President Jimmy Carter, in a televised speech to the nation on April 18 1977, warned of rapidly increasing dependence on foreign oil and the resulting out-of-control trade imbalances and loss of freedom to act in foreign affairs. He declared the effort to respond to this threat “the moral [...]