Locks of Love For the last eight years my wife, Tami, has not cut her hair. Her morning ritual included 15 to 20 minutes per day of brushing and braiding. She is one of those folks who simply have a gorgeous head of hair; but at what cost. Waking up at 2 am with me tangled in it or the dogs laying on it. But she never complained; Instead silently she carries on the Repunzel Genome. Well, the time finally arrived to make a change — her bun was getting too heavy to stay on top of her head. Her solution was to cut it off and donate it to “Locks of Love.” Locks of Love is a Florida not-for-profit company started in 1997 which uses donated hair to fashion hair pieces for children under 18 years of age who have suffered medical hair loss. The hair pieces are provided free of charge, or at a reduced fee. You simply braid up the clean dry hair, and whack it off (above the rubber band) and send it in. Tami decided to use a professional who takes care of all the details for you. So, off she went yesterday to a salon called “I Run With Scissors” in Eugene (541-870-0388) The braid was over 29” (probably 32” unbraided) Not only does Tami feel 10lbs lighter, but her morning routine took about 5 minutes this AM.
SKIING THE EYE OF GOD With the Winter Olympics wall to wall in our consciousness just now I would like to offer the following: Down the hill they rocket, on the edge of control and only one small mistake away from disaster. Occasionally the camera angle gives us a sense of how steep these slopes are. Whistler has some of the best courses on the planet. As skiers will tell you, “This place is heavenly!” BUT... You ain't never skied until you’ve skied the EYE OF GOD, where “heavenly” gets a whole new meaning. One skier reported that while he was hurdling down the mountain side, and nearing that weightlessness you get in a diving airplane, he suddenly broke through the time/space barrier and found himself on a star dusted slope, his skis carving out a path to the Cosmic Finish Line. AWESOME!
Builder Has Brain Storm An installation of an upside down house was done recently in Trassenheide Germany, designed by Polish partners Klaudiusz Golos and Sebastion Mikuciuk, has given one local builder a vision. Y-NOT CONSTRUCTION is based in Yaquina City and has been specializing in building homes on the Oregon coast with its harsh Winter climate. But, as owner, Samuel Dustin (affectionately known as “Saw Dust”), tells us that they still have a fundamental problem. “Around here we build houses and then the winter storms blow them over. Why not build our houses upside down and then when the wind blows them over they will land right side up.” A local insurance agent wasn’t too sure his underwriters would warm up to the idea, but he was willing to try it once with a group of investors from Eastern Europe.
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