Iron Artist

WE WON!!!

A few weeks ago me and these lovely ladies competed in a competition that is modeled after the "Iron Chef" competition but the objective is to build a sculpture out of junk. Each team (up to 10 members) is given a theme (this year's was "alchemy") and a pile of "junk" and three hours to work. Only five team members may touch the sculpture at a time. Oh man, was it so fun? Yes, indeed. I have been looking for some girl time and I found it with these ladies we lived it up. We were called The Polli8ors. We dressed as bees an handed out live zinnias to everyone we came across. Anywho, here's a link to some more photos that will give you a better idea of what madness ensued. http://wweek.com/wwire/?p=13133

We wore flowers in our hair.

Chris at the SF MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) That is a piece of art on the wall behind him and a total coincidence, perhaps the fact that Chris stands with his hand on his chin like that alot was simply preparation for this moment.


I don't know why this is blue and underlined! Maybe to match Chris's lightsaber? Oh well...

Chris and I went to San Francisco a few weeks ago and lived it up. It was my first trip to California. We took some folks down with us that we found in need of a rideshare on Craigslist. They were cool. In fact you will see Hannah pictured with us as she enjoyed the whole four days in San Fran with us. She was really fun and so are we, so we got along well. We went to wine country and stayed two nights and lived in luxury. We saw friends, drank beers, and ate great risotto (oh my God, Squid Ink risotto, holy crap!) among other things. On our way back up to Oregon we stayed one night in the RedWoods! Woah! Del Norte State Park. I'm doing that again.

At the Golden Gate Bridge.


Our friend DJ had me take this picture several times to get it right. He wanted a grape hat.

I'm enjoying my camera, you get to see some of my experimentation.

Chris and I at a North California beach, just off of Highway 101. I already want to go back.


The Golden Gate Bridge

Oops, the camera was on manual focus but no one manually focused it! ha.

Our drive to Geyserville, if you look closely you can read "Sonoma County" on the green sign.


We found this crazy little abandoned bridge to take some great photos of.

Foodworks!

I had an opportunity to work on the greatest farm this summer. It is called FoodWorks. I mentioned it earlier in the blog but we were recently featured on *Cooking Up a Story. There is not a link directly to the video yet but it's the main story right now. Check it out. It makes me really proud of the kids. Ahoefa is wise beyond her years.

*note...this is a hyperlink to the video.