September 1, 2009

Under a Blood Red Moon - taken from Moby Arena after Greg Mortenson's talk


Outside the Moby Arena at CSU.

The kids and I joined several school friends and their families in going to hear Greg Mortenson ("author" of the Three Cups of Tea book). The Moby arena was packed. We had to wait an hour before they got started (We got there early because there was open seating.) and the kids got a bit antsy, but once Greg started to speak they were able to settle down and listen fairly well. Nathan's school is going to be reading the children's version of Three Cups of Tea this year. (Each grade will be reading through it at the same time.)

After the talk we walked out of the south side of the arena and saw the moon, red as can be. It was rather eery. I'm assuming it's red because of the fires in California. It was overcast/hazy yesterday and it is again today. And the sun is definitely a bit redder looking than usual.

If it's this bad here, I can only imagine what the skies in Southern Cal are like right now. (I asked Rob if it was hazy in San Francisco as well, but he said it was too foggy to tell.)

17 comments:

  1. You see the redness better if you zoom.

    Here's a link to the Coloradoan's article on Mortenson's visit.

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  2. Moby has an arena named after him now?

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  3. different moby. this one was probably a coach at CSU at some point. don't know if he was at all musical, though there are occasionally concerts held in the arena.

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  4. No, this one is named for the whale, which was a native of Fort Collins.

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  5. his migration to the ocean was a long and arduous trip. i heard his legs fell right off at the end from over use. poor thing.

    actually, the arena does look a bit like a whale. *totters off to look for a pic*

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  6. you don't think it looks a bit like a cylon whale?

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  7. you love being contrary, don't you? :-P

    and geordi doesn't have white hair.

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  8. But, probably because I'm hungry

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  9. yeah, it is a bit mushroom-ish.

    so it turns out that yesterday's air quality was so bad due to the socal fires that people in boulder were calling 911 to alert the authorities to the poor air quality. what a bunch of sissies.

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  10. I thought I'd misheard that. Because I'm thinking there are states between CO and CA and they're managing. . .

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  11. like i said, those boulder folks are a bunch of whiners.

    i have heard a lot of locals complain about sore throats, though. it hasn't affected me but i think that's mostly because my allergies are so bad that i wouldn't know if there were a fire in the room. between sneezing, blowing my nose and scratching the heck out of the itchies, i'm surprised i'm able to get anything done at all during the day.

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  12. Oh I feel for you. Our family was spared from any of that until last year when my kid's face went super nova. Sneezy-sneezy, itchy puffy eyes, and sore throat. We threw every natural remedy at that child from local honey to freeze dried nettle. This year the skin of dark red apples (or quercetin sups) seems to be doing the trick.

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  13. wow, never heard of that one. so you get something called quercetin sups at the store? or you skin a lot of apples?

    we've tried the honey. it's hard to find immediately local stuff (though i just found out about a place that local-er than anything else we've seen) but it doesn't seem to help a whole lot as far as i can tell.

    if i could slice my nose off without severe bleeding i'd be tempted to just go that route.

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  14. Ya, the honey was a big fail here too, but she certainly enjoyed it of all the remedies. We even tried local organic pollen. Did everything but make her howl at the moon.

    The quercetin supplements are easy enough to find. I prefer she gets what she needs from whole food sources though, and was very pleased that eating one red apple was enough to stop an attack when we walked through tall grasses. After eating the apple her eyes returned to normal and she walked through the grasses several times with no reaction.

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