Broke my clavicle in 5 places. I have a bunch of other shoulder bone fragments floating around. Upgraded to titanium, at least for 6 months, to keep things together.

Arches National Park in Utah. Chris recently visited Arches during a cross country trip…

Lucky for us Chris took a bunch of pictures…

Photos courtesy of Chris Salsman.

Came across a millipede recently while visiting Puerto Rico. Didn’t know what type of millipede it was until I found similar ones described on this website.

For more pics and info: BLDG BLOG

“The largest sealed environment ever created, constructed at a cost of $200 million, and now falling somewhere between David Gissen’s idea of subnature—wherein the slow power of vegetative life is unleashed “as a transgressive animated force against buildings”—and a bioclimatically inspired Dubai, Biosphere 2 even included its own one million-gallon artificial sea.

“The structure was billed as the first large habitat for humans that would live and breathe on its own, as cut off from the earth as a spaceship,” the New York Times wrote back in 1992, but the project was a near-instant failure.”

Moose Mitts…………………………………………………………………………………………………… $60
Studded Tires………………………………………………………………………………………………….$170
Lake Winter Boots……………………………………………………………………………………………$290 (ugh!!)
Having Hartshore all to yourself on a snowy morning…………………………………………….Priceless

Happy New Year!