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Listed Green Homes MLS Housing For Sale Solar Energy Efficient Ecofriendly.  Not that I want to sell my house, but when I do, I’ll be sure to get it listed here.

ecoLightbulbs Store.  a co-worker (a/k/a googler) has a whole non-profit site dedicated to selling CFL bulbs.. what a great idea!

DIA to set solar standard - The Denver Post.  I’ve been driving by and noticed the built-out, but wasn’t sure if what I was seeing was true - it is!  A HUGE solar install at DIA!

Mack was on the Red Sox this year, so we rooted for them, as far as he knew

Good team picture

Mack at team (bottom left in case you can't tell)

Aviva and I have always loved Fleming’s Steak House.  We got there pretty regularly, like once a quarter or so.  Aviva loves the steaks, I love the tuna, we both love the service and the martini’s don’t suck either

A few months back I had written a review on Yelp!  I’ve done that >80 times, so no big deal there.  But the GM of our local Fleming’s noticed it and wrote to thank me for the kind words.. and oh yea, offer us dinner for 2 as a thank you for my putting them on Yelp!

The Cheesecake Factory will remain #1, but Fleming’s is making it interesting..

We were in Frisco, CO last weekend, visiting some friends and went on a hike.  It was horrifying to see how many trees were red, considering fall isn’t for months.  I read the papers and knew what was going on - the pine beetle infestation had hit some areas of trees, the damage was all too apparent.  It’s sad to see and they are cutting down lots of trees to cut off the movement of these pesky insects.  When you read the wikipedia link I posted, it’s saddening to see how devastating these little critters are.

Is global warming to blame?  Perhaps.  These beetles are often killed off with a prolonged cold spell - which winter usually does well.  However, winters haven’t been as cold, allowing the beetles to live on and reproduce.  I took a few pics and you can see the brownish/red pine trees.. thankfully, these beetles don’t eat the lovely Aspen Trees , which are all that might be left.

I wasn’t sure how June would fare in our solar project, we’ve started to use the A/C a bit more, but also, are starting to use the clothesline now regularly - would that help?  Well, the bill arrived and the news was even better than I hoped!  Our solar savings got even better.  This means that our net usage decreased by a larger percentage from the prior year more than the prior month (May) vs its prior year correspondent.

I was surprised, but in a good way.  We’ve even had some more clouds than the prior month.  But apparently, the sun is blasting and the panels are doing thei magic.  The clothesline has to help, it looks like dryers aren’t a real electricity killer, but they do use their share.. we used to run it probably 6-8 times per week, these days it’s down to probably 2-3 at most.

Here’s the data - it’s unreal!

This read made me feel even better about solar

A new site, worth checking out..

All of my web stuff, simply published in a single place

I swiped a few more pics from the Camp web-site.. They tried to prevent me from doing so, but I’m way too savvy for that poop!