Comments for gemland.net http://www.gemland.net/webblog Facets of the Natural World around Us .... Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:40:16 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Rooms with a View – aka “On Cloud Nine” by sagronek http://www.gemland.net/webblog/?p=39&cpage=1#comment-429 sagronek Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:40:16 +0000 http://www.gemland.net/webblog/?p=39#comment-429 Hey! You maintain a great blog here! As a fellow Wordpress blogger using Firefox as my exclusive browser, I like your promotion of those names. Thanks for the reference to my blog above! sag Hey! You maintain a great blog here! As a fellow Wordpress blogger using Firefox as my exclusive browser, I like your promotion of those names.

Thanks for the reference to my blog above!

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]]> Comment on Rooms with a View – aka “On Cloud Nine” by Cloud 9 Restaurant http://www.gemland.net/webblog/?p=39&cpage=1#comment-428 Cloud 9 Restaurant Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:51:51 +0000 http://www.gemland.net/webblog/?p=39#comment-428 [...] A site within the Phoenix Mountains Preserve raises a lot of questions about its history. It’s the multi-level foundation of an historical restaurant in Phoenix (at least, in the context of the history of Sunnyslope Village) known as “Cloud 9″, long-since leveled. [...] [...] A site within the Phoenix Mountains Preserve raises a lot of questions about its history. It’s the multi-level foundation of an historical restaurant in Phoenix (at least, in the context of the history of Sunnyslope Village) known as “Cloud 9″, long-since leveled. [...]

]]> Comment on Touchstone by Roger Powell http://www.gemland.net/webblog/?p=40&cpage=1#comment-395 Roger Powell Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:53:36 +0000 http://www.gemland.net/webblog/?p=40#comment-395 About 5 months ago, my wife and I completed the construction of our dream home on a low west slope of what I would have called “Moon Mountain”. On your web site, you refer to it as “Moon Hill” — I feel just as disappointed as the townspeople in that Hugh Grant movie, “The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain” :-) As for the basalt - I have a complex relationship with it. On the one hand, it cost a lot of money to do a “hard dig” to prepare our house pad. On the other hand, we love the natural “varnish” it develops in the desert sun. We asked the contractor to disturb the minimum possible building envelope and to attempt to save and restore the rocks with patina as much as was practical. Richard … fret no more. You are invited to come inspect the mountain… err “hill” at close range. About 5 months ago, my wife and I completed the construction of our dream home on a low west slope of what I would have called “Moon Mountain”. On your web site, you refer to it as “Moon Hill” — I feel just as disappointed as the townspeople in that Hugh Grant movie,
“The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain” :-)

As for the basalt – I have a complex relationship with it. On the one hand, it cost a lot of money to do a “hard dig” to prepare our house pad. On the other hand, we love the natural “varnish” it develops in the desert sun.

We asked the contractor to disturb the minimum possible building envelope and to attempt to save and restore the rocks with patina as much as was practical.

Richard … fret no more. You are invited to come inspect the mountain… err “hill” at close range.

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