I've been looking around at all sorts of Volvo websites today and early this morning I came across a link to these guys on a forum board:

The Sashimi Tabernacle ChoirSmiles are practically mandatory after visiting this site. The construction pages are really interesting, detailing most of the steps of making the car into the Choir, and the videos ( Read more... )

Some of you may recall this post where I quoted an observation from an Alterneter which seems still particularly pertinent.

Today I was wandering about my favorite corners of the web and found several links I'd like to share, also related:

Subprime CountryNot so much for the main part of the article, but for this bit at the very end ( Read more... )

I went up to Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve this morning to partcipate in an invasive weed removal I saw listed on the California Native Plant Society: East Bay websiteIt was scheduled to begin around 9:30, so I left my house around 9 AM and drove on up, after packing a kit which included ( Read more... )

Yes, we've just gotten our first rain of the season. Not heavy rain, but I duly went and gave thanks and got sprinkled upon. Very odd clouds though, they look more like the remnants of a tropical storm coming up from the south than the piled-high fluffies that we usually get from the northwest.