Solstice Pilgrimage to Ketchum
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Tuesday June 16
Grades in. Half a dozen or more thank-you emails from students. Calculating the profit on the Sierra Club benefit: $10K. The agonizing move of Claire from 24A to 16B complete. Hidden Hills Mobile Home on the market.
I complete the touch-up painting, mulch tomatoes and cukes, break down the bikes and pack for the trip. After spending the day together, Claire and Ian and Dennis and Lucas come for pizza to Albert Drive. Jan to City Council at 6:30. Ian and I watch Aristocats. I wake up at 3:00 A.M. and complete the article on Green Building and Joe’s spec house that he asked me to write for the Sun Valley promotional magazine. [click images to enlarge]
The holy crusade for sustainability converted into marketing strategy and composition class writing prompts.
Wednesday June 17
7:30 A.M. departure. Ian in his sleeping bag, watching Spider Man in the back seat. We listen to Garrison Keillor reading his new novel Liberty borrowed from the SLO Library. Buy cherries, peaches and apricots from a farmgirl at a fruitstand on Hiway 5. This is our fourth June trip with Ian to Ketchum. He is carsick twice, but avoids messing the car. This time, no dallying at Donner Lake or Yosemite. Sleep at the Elko motel after a late Chinese dinner.
