I converted the photo to b&w on my iPhone for her. They printed great at 11×14. We did a special gift idea that I will share in another post soon with final photos of what she ended up doing.

Shanon who runs a bike shop in China and hosts the goldsprints event sent me these. When I told her I wear size 14 she said no one has that big of feet so I had her send a size 9 for my son. Here are a few photos. Nice set of kicks!

The above photo is looking out our front door.

This photo is a panorama looking out the back door.

If all goes well you can watch me photo essay my entire Colorado vacation on the map below. Each photo I take will be upload to the site and placed on the map in real time. The process is pretty simple: 1. Take photo with iPhone 4. 2. Upload to the site as a blog post and tag it with a special identification 3. The site will place the photo in the that particular post on the map based on its GPS location. 4. Site back and watch the map get more and more photos daily!

Note that this post will remain as the top post while I am on vacation. All of the photos posts will show below this post on the main blog page. This will make it you can more easily access this map from my font page as I start to make photos posts.

Bookmark this page and let the vacation begin!

Update: lots of photos are overlapping so make sure you zoom into the map to see them all.

Here are a few photos of the KEF Ventura 6 speakers mounted and ready to play some music. They are waterproof and sound way better than I thought they would. Bass and high sound great. I have played everything from Avett Brothers to Run DMC on them. Very happy. I will be doing a video update soon demoing the entire deck system to include the Apple Airport Express and iPhone/iPad control.

I ended up mounting the speakers to the siding with lag bolts. I wanted to mount them under the ease but I couldn’t find bolts long enough. I think I was looking at bold a foot long. The speaker wire is run through the inside of the house then routed behind the siding on the outside. If you have to do anything similar with vinyl siding make sure you get a siding removal tool. It make all the difference in the world to peel back the siding.

I ended up cutting some PVC piping to give them a slight angle down. This allows for the music to not just fly over you sitting on the deck. It should a little better and was very easy to do. See the photos below of the PVC pieces. One end if cut at 90 degree and the other about an angle.

Look for the video update of the entire system very soon.

Running wires from the inside.

This is the right speaker mount with banana clips added.

The above two image show each bracket mounted and the banana clip on the speaker wires. You can also see the PVC spacer I created.

Both speaker looking from the right.

Here is a better look at the PVC pieces I added.

Left speaker.

Wider view of the speakers mounted.

So that is the latest and greatest right now. Eventually I think I think I will add two more speakers on the far left of the house. Before I can do that I need to finish the deck on that side that will allow us to walk out from our bedroom to the deck. I will then zone 1 and zone 2 the setup.

This video ends looking at the latest section that will be a fire pit/grill area. You only see the 2×8 framed out area but when complete it will have pavers and wood as the flooring. I am not entirely sure it is all going to work out how I imagine it should but I will do my best to make it up as I go.

Sorry Boris no German techno music for the soundtrack on the video.

The fire pit is on the deck right now but I have a special place in the yard for it that I will cover in a future deck update.

We also started wrapping the tree in lights. This is perf for lighting the corner of the deck. I love to look up at the tree at night with the lights on.

Last night we had some s’mores then Ella brought out her guitar to show us the new riff she has been working on. The volume is pretty low so you will need to turn up your volume. Pretty cute stuff here…..

Also in the video is the new wicker seats and table that Terra picked up off Craigslist for cheap. There were white but she painted them black and bought new cushions. She paited these all by herself using a spray gun and air compressor. They turned out great. I will get them in the next video with the new cushions on them.