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The Festy Experience 2011 at Devil’s Backbone Brewery

Devil’s Backbone Brewery hosted the 2nd Annual Festy Experience last weekend, and I was hugely impressed, not only because it was perfect weather, great camping, phenomenal music, great food and beer and clean grounds … I also was lucky to hear from friends who had driven for several hours to attend. They were unanimous in their agreement that those of us who live here are privileged to live in such proximity to such a wonderful festival.

The Festy is extraordinarily kid-friendly and offers plenty of opportunities for a not-so-kid friendly experience; next year I’ll probably take my little one.

Sometimes it takes “tourists” to remind us that we live in a pretty awesome place.


The Festy Experience

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My house is Getting an Energy Makeover

Thanks to LEAP, my house will be getting an energy makeover. I’ve written about green homes and energy efficiency for years, and now I’ll be benefitting from it first hand.

And I’m a bit excited.

I expect I’ll be writing about this quite a bit over the next few weeks and months, but here’s one thing I’ll note now:

I don’t think I’ll publicly disclose the builder of my home. It’s easy to find out, and I’ll tell you in person, and if you’re a client, I’ll give you the full run-down.

The reason we bought where we did was not for the house; it was for the location. We walk and ride bikes to the park, the pool, the soccer field, coffee shop(s), the library, and ride bikes to all of the above including my daughter’s elementary school.

Now, if we can save money through energy efficiency and I will learn more to help my clients, that’s a win all the way around.

Press release is after the jump.


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