Tangerine Tango – Flylow Color of the Year
As a designer, Pantone’s annual announcement of their Color of the Year is usually just an interesting tidbit of information that, once digested, gets half heartedly tucked away in my brain. I’ve never used it as a basis for a design, and I can’t say I’ve ever seen it influence…
Read More ⊕Off the Grid is Off the Air
It was a short run, but Off the Grid is now kaputz. It was meant to be a place to write about life and adventure – kept separate from the design and web related posts I normally write about here on the Spigot blog. But it’s simply too much to…
Read More ⊕Shiny the Bearded Dragon
Our son Tory got to bring his preschool class’ pet Bearded Dragon, Shiny, home for the Christmas break. Surprisingly cute. Eats mealworms and crickets. Our cat Ollie was briefly interested in a protracted staring contest through the aquarium glass, but thankfully he’s moved on. Also thankful he lacks the dexterity…
Read More ⊕Total Lunar Eclipse
I woke up early this morning to find the moon looking a little funny. A quick search on the Google told me it was a lunar eclipse!
Read More ⊕Boss Hog Canyoneering
Kari and I have been canyoneering for many years now, and it’s one of the main reasons we decided to move back to Utah. We were lucky to get a few days away recently and headed down to North Wash to help Tom Jones celebrate his birthday. Allison and Bryan…
Read More ⊕March Fourth Marching Band
We don’t get out on the town as much as we used to, but Grandpa and Grandma are here, so we must take advantage. We headed down to The State Room in Salt Lake with a bunch of friend and danced our butts off to March Fourth Marching Band. 20…
Read More ⊕Raised Bed Garden
After suffering complete failure (due to climate and critters) with our 4×4 gardens last year (click here for a picture), we wentall out this year with a new system. It’s bigger, raised up a bit more, and most importantly, completely covered. The cover is made of Solexx, a double walled corrugated plastic…
Read More ⊕Sassafras Floral
After years of nagging, my sister Sarah is allowing me to upgrade their flash-based website (that I built) to modern standards. They’ve got some great new photos and I just wanted to share this one with you. Check them out at:sassafrasgardens.com.
Read More ⊕Off the Grid
Update: Off the Grid is now Off the Air. All the stuff that was being posted there is now being posted here. No need to update two sites, friends. You can use the Off the Grid tag to grab all past and future OTG posts. Happy Camping! I’d like to…
Read More ⊕Paper Airplane: Cobra
With a 4-year-old boy in the house we make a lot of paper airplanes. This is one of our favorites.
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