Watching the 2013 Emmy award show, we were taken with the banality of the acceptance speeches. Most of those honored with the gold statuette seemed unprepared, needing words from an accomplished script writer. Their gushing and stuttering was to us insincere, sometimes incoherent, and almost uniformly too long. The ending music and thoughts of a […]
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Living in a Spiralized World
Shopping in the Wood River Valley is diverse, eclectic and fun. Ultra chic, luxury retailers contrast with wonderful thrift shops, benefitting excellent causes. The Barkin’ Basement provides funding to the no-kill Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley. The Community Library in Ketchum was started in 1955 with a one dollar donation from seventeen ladies who opened […]
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From our home in Hailey, ID, we often drive the 10 miles north to Ketchum and Sun Valley resort or beyond to numerous trailheads in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. Idaho State Highway 75 is busy with local and tourist traffic, and at times with wild animal crossings including the beautiful wolves. Recently, probably due to the […]
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Sullivan’s Island is an historic small town on Charleston Harbor. The site of a major battle of the American Revolution at Fort Sullivan, this was also the point of entry for many of the African slaves brought into North America. More recently it is just a lovely spot for a beach home in a comfortable community. […]
Read the rest of this entry »Fire on the mountain
One year ago we stood in our Hailey front yard and watched the flames rampage over Carbonate Mountain just a few blocks to the west. It was a dramatic and very personal exerience to the wild land fire reality. The Idaho Beaver Creek fire, one of the largest in the West last year, really changed […]
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I know, we promised not to get into gossip about celebs, and certainly it is off limits to even discuss someone as strange and irrelevant as Miley Cyrus. After all, we just retired all of our bad jokes about “Achy Breaky Heart” when this twerking, jerking offspring sprung out from Disney to prime time. Well, […]
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Last week the normally bluebird skies of Sun Valley were filled with thunderclouds and lightning. The unexpected culinary adventure was realized when the local market had a ridiculous price of less than $2 per pound on fresh clams from Mexico. We dove into our larder of frozen seafood to find prawns, sea scallops, squid and cod. Perusing […]
Read the rest of this entry »Some great food quotes
We post these quotes courtesy of HellaWella and Laura Van Wert. “I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for the minds and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.” — Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader “How can a nation […]
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