My first ever youtube link.

Life is Good

When Nurit and I were in Arizona we bought a glass art collection. We spent yesterday hanging it.

It took all afternoon.

We didn’t break any pieces and the final result was worth it:

Life is Good!

We bought it from LeKAE Galleries in Scottsdale. The owners David and Linda Sherer were very helpful, thoughtful and were just the right amount of attentive. It (glass wall sculpture?) was created by Michael Orr of Maui, he does not have a web site.

Here is a picture of the living room with the new art:

Life is extremely good!

This is one of my best ideas in a long time. You know about “Rescue Dogs” and you have seen (If you live in Southern California) trees full of fruit in peoples gardens that will go to waste because nobody can be bothered to pick it. You may have seen Barbara Kingsolver’s book Animal, Vegetable Miracle about the benefits of organic, local and fresh food.

This idea puts all these trends together. It is a simple idea really: Make Jams, Jellies, Relishes etc. out of backyard fruits and sell them as an environmental alternative to corporate farmed, machine picked, processed and preserved products. Rescue fruit is local, organic and helps everyone in it’s path to your bread.

Rescue Fruit

The flavor alternative in a world gone bland.

RescueFruit.com

The target market would be local high end restaurants and internet sales. It would be necessary to have a really good web site that sold the idea before it sold the product.

A backyard tree with excellent free fruit

The name “Rescue Fruit” is so good that I have violated my own “I don’t do business anymore” rule and bought the name RescueFruit.com.

This is the business plan:

• Year 1 and 2: Make some product and sell it under the FDA small producer exemption, self finance. Work out the website, the publicity, the recipes and the trade dress
• Year 3 and 4: Use investor money to build a small plant and develop markets and systems.
• Year 5: Sell for a lot of money to a big food company.

The business model is Tom’s of Maine or Samuel Adams Beer.

Rebecca is at the Kite Festival in Washington DC this weekend.

I’m Jealous.

The image above is uploaded directly to the blog rather than through flickr. Let me know if it works.

Here is a link to Joel G’s photos from Curacao.

One of Mark Z’s pictures as a teaser

Joel figured out how to fix the light in many of the shots so that the red isn’t filtered out. He can also give you a lesson about being sure that your digital camera housing is closed before taking the giant stride.

Great Pictures Joel!