http://WWW.HEARTHWOODDOME.COM/ Building and Living in a Geodesic Dome en-us ed@hearthwooddome.com Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:46:59 -0500 http://WWW.HEARTHWOODDOME.COM/archives/001320.html And we're back. We've had a couple days to decompress and are enjoying our extended weekend at home. The weather is even cooperating, humidity being low and temperatures dropping into the 70's at times during the day. This evening I... http://WWW.HEARTHWOODDOME.COM/archives/001319.html Yesterday we said goodbye to the lake and drove to Lexington. We stopped in at St. Joseph's Hospital to visit Grandfather Lampkin. He bruised his leg, and that cascaded into a series of health failures, including a swollen arm and... http://WWW.HEARTHWOODDOME.COM/archives/001318.html Yesterday and today were great days, though hot. We water-skied and tubed behind the Mary Jane, The Klausing's boat; Jean got up almost right away, having done that quite a bit in her youth, while I ha less luck. Jimmy... http://WWW.HEARTHWOODDOME.COM/archives/001317.html This morning we ate a hearty breakfast at Doc's cabin (a family friend two cabins up) of waffles, grits, bacon and blackberries (the latter courtesy of Mom) and made preparations to go down to the lake. Uncle Jimmy's parents built... http://WWW.HEARTHWOODDOME.COM/archives/001314.html Yesterday we departed White Bluff in the company of the Wilsons, to tour Mammoth Cave. Blazingly hot outside, the entrance to the cave was streaming out cold air in the same way as a drink cabinet does at the supermarket.... http://WWW.HEARTHWOODDOME.COM/archives/001313.html We had a blast at the Science Center. Aside from a scary 10 minutes when Lucas was missing, having decided to go a different direction, we all enjoyed ourselves. Beau smoked a couple racks of ribs in his backwoods smoker... http://WWW.HEARTHWOODDOME.COM/archives/001311.html After a trying 11-hour drive, we arrived at Beau and Ronnie's in White Bluff, a small suburb of sorts, on the outskirts of Nashville. R&B really went out of their way to accomodate us, though unfortunately Beau still has to... http://WWW.HEARTHWOODDOME.COM/archives/001310.html Driving to Nashville today; we got up at 5am and on the road this morning. We should be there sometime after dinner... We're on a big trip to visit my cousin Beau and his family, then up to Cumberland lake,... http://WWW.HEARTHWOODDOME.COM/archives/001309.html At 5:00am, my alarm blared, waking me (and Jean) for the geekstravaganza of iPhone 3G launch day. I rolled out to Fairoaks mall by 5:30, getting me to an already busy parking lot teeming with young people having nothing better... http://WWW.HEARTHWOODDOME.COM/archives/001305.html As I write this, Eleanor vies for my attention. I'm taking a couple days off to try and stabilize our dome-icile (Jean's pun) and have a few moments to myself to catch up on the blog. I hand Eleanor a... http://WWW.HEARTHWOODDOME.COM/archives/001304.html We've hired out the drywall to be finished! All is done and this weekend we're going to begin painting. After that, trim, fixtures and furniture! This means that we're scant weeks (months?) away from being able to move the kids... http://WWW.HEARTHWOODDOME.COM/archives/001303.html jean and the kids saw our three fox kits the other day and I was fortunate enough to see them Friday night. I was walking with a scotch down to the end of the drive late that night, and heard... http://WWW.HEARTHWOODDOME.COM/archives/001302.html The Dyers have long held that numbers and letters, among other things, are colored. Literally I mean. For me, when someone says "number one" I think of a large blue or white (either) number one. When in college, I learned... http://WWW.HEARTHWOODDOME.COM/archives/001299.html "Each year, the April 22 Earth Day marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. Among other things, 1970 in the United States brought with it the Kent State shootings, the advent of fiber optics,... http://WWW.HEARTHWOODDOME.COM/archives/001298.html Jean and I enjoyed her birthday a lot; I got to surprise her nearly every day I took off this past week (that in itself a surprise). Wed: pretended to go to work, mowed the lawn and other chores before...