The Mountains Are Growing With Chile: March 2010

Be Prepared

Besides water (1 gallon per person per day for drinking, cooking, cleaning, etc.), the following is suggested for one person over age 8 (to prepare and eat healthy meals for ONE year):

150 pounds of wheat berries
25 pounds of flour
25 pounds of cornmeal
25 pounds of oats
50 pounds of rice
25 pounds of pasta
50 pounds dry beans/peas/lentils/soybeans
40 cans tuna
40 cans ham
10 pounds dried turkey dices
10 pounds dried chicken dices
10 pounds powdered eggs
40 pounds applesauce
30 pounds dried banana chips
50 cans fruit cocktail
50 cans pear halves
50 cans peach slices
50 cans pineapple chunks, tidbits or slices
40 pounds of fruit juices
30 pounds corn
30 pounds green beans
30 pounds dried carrots
40 pounds potatoes
20 pounds dried potato flakes
10 pounds dried onion dices
10 pounds dried garlic granules
20 pounds tomatoes
60 cans tomato paste
50 pounds powdered milk
12 cans evaporated milk
2 pounds dried milk items (sour cream/butter)
1 pound baking powder
4 pounds baking soda (cleaning & cooking)
1 pound yeast
5 pounds salt
5 gallons vegetable oil
5 gallons vinegar
2 quarts of mayonnaise
1 quart ketchup
5 pounds honey
30 pounds sugar
24 jars jams/fruit preserves
2 pounds flavored gelatin / instant puddings
4 pounds hard candy
4 bottles mustard
4 jars pickle relish
12 bottles salad dressing
5 pounds boullion/broth-maker
5 pounds peanut butter
12 bottles multi-vitamins

Friday, March 26, 2010

New wheels

Got a new bike.

Wasn't crazy about the color but loved the feel.

So we gave her a custom sticker job!

Totally decimated my sticker stash, but it was worth it.

Thanks to Essam and the boys at Orange Peel.

We have a name for our market garden project. And a logo too. If you want to hear the song we named it after just press play on the music player in the side bar. It's an old fiddle song and traditionally features clawhammer banjo.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Spring Blues

As the spring equinox approaches, hope for another bottomless powder day starts to fade. While most of the rest of the world is rejoicing at rising temperatures and thawing yards, dreaming of golf games and dirt biking, hard core ski bums across the land slide into a deep funk. Don't get me wrong, I love spring skiing. I can't deny the joy of skiing corn snow in a t-shirt, or how how good PBR tastes after said corn skiing, but these things do signal the beginning of the end. There just aren't words to describe the melancholy that I feel knowing that I'll soon have to wait months for first tracks and face shots. Call me crazy but I just love the snow, the cold, the wind, the winter time. With time the pain will fade to a dull aching, but the longing will never go away.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Ome

Took a trip down to Boulder to the Ome factory.

I wanted to buy a banjo for Jenny. Unfortunately Ome doesn't really make entry level instruments. Why is it that you're always drawn to the most expensive thing on the wall?

They did carry a couple of Chinese made entry level banjos and said they would take it back in on a trade-in in the future. We had all but decided to buy the Chinese one when our conscience came to the rescue

Here we were at the factory of one of the premier banjo makers in the world, and we were going to buy a mass produced Chinese POS.
We compared the sounds and there was no comparison.

So we are now the proud owners an Ome Banjo! Pricey but worth every penny. Ours is already a collectors piece as it is a prototype for the new Woodsong model now being offered. Only 12 were made, each one different. This one has a really warm sound and feel and a very clear tone. It is #5536. That means it the 5536th instrument made by Ome. They make around 100-150 instruments in a good year. Thank you so much Chuck and Tanya for showing us around and being so hospitable to a couple of hill billies.