Sunday, February 13, 2011
Results of Energy Fast
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Energy Fasting
Energy fasting is choosing an evening where you don’t use energy in your home. For example, not using any electricity for the entire evening by not turning on lights and burning candles instead. At first I thought it would never work because I have a four year old and a husband, 3 televisions, 2 computers with 2 monitors each and frankly I don’t know if I can go without my TiVo for one night.
After I installed recycle bins upstairs (in addition to the ones already in the kitchen) I noticed that I had cut the garbage in half. I understand that energy fasting only requires some simple planning. I need to prepare our dinner before dark, get out the candles and find a good book. I will post my findings after next week’s energy fast. I wonder if it's as simple as it seems?
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
5 Days Til Christmas
We will be celebrating Christmas in Bend! Since we no longer have our suburban, we are wondering how we will get all the gifts over to Bend. There is a 50” television included in the gifts and about 15 gifts under the tree that aren’t small. We used to have a Suburban LTZ and the maximum cargo capacity was 137.4 cu.ft. We now have a 2010 Tahoe LT with a maximum cargo capacity of 108.9 cu.ft. What a difference 30 cubic feet can make.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Inactive
Saturday, May 8, 2010
May 2010
Thursday, August 13, 2009
It's August
We are moving into a new house this weekend and will stay in Portland another year.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Spring Classic
These are my results for the Spring Classic Duathlon today April 11, 2009. This is my second race of the season but my first duathlon. I had a good time. I enjoyed the race especially since it didn't rain but also because there was a wide range of participants. There were the usual wanna be pro triathletes with their P3 Carbons, Felt DA and Hed Wheels in addition to the middle of the age groupers like me, 60 to 79 year olds too and lots of first timers. I finished in the top 50% of my age group and headed straight to the Starbucks drive-thru across the street. All in all it is a good day! Where else can you pay $70 to race into a headwind at the airport while airplanes are taking off a couple hundred feet above your head?