Behind The Scenes At Backwoods Home Magazine » Publishing BHM http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes Behind the scenes of Backwoods Home Magazine with Dave Duffy. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:14:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Experimenting with virtual office http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2012/02/07/experimenting-with-virtual-office-at-dallas-expo/ http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2012/02/07/experimenting-with-virtual-office-at-dallas-expo/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:16:48 +0000 Dave Duffy http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/?p=2578 Annie and Clara talk with Dave through Skype.

Annie and I have been experimenting with a “virtual office” since she will be moving to Corvallis this spring. While Sam and I are at the Dallas Expo, we’ll see how well it works between Dallas and Oregon. John Silveira will also tutor Sam in math from Oregon through the same virtual office setup. Our virtual office is simply Skype with a better quality “after market” camera we’ll be able to move around more easily.

]]> http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2012/02/07/experimenting-with-virtual-office-at-dallas-expo/feed/ 0 Dallas Self Reliance Expo looming http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2012/02/05/dallas-self-reliance-expo-looming/ http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2012/02/05/dallas-self-reliance-expo-looming/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:16:02 +0000 Dave Duffy http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/?p=2574 Sam gets ready for the Expo by working on his school homework.

Looking forward to the Dallas Self Reliance Expo, which is actually in Mesquite, a suburb of Dallas. The books and magazines have been sent, and Sam is working hard to get ahead on his homework since he’ll miss a couple of days of school.

The tendons in my right foot are healing fast. For exercise, I’ve been using my stationary bike an hour a day, splitting wood, and hitting golf balls off my back deck into the woods. I can’t retrieve the golf balls from the woods since the uneven ground is too hazardous for my unstable foot, but Sam got a bunch for me today. His young back and dexterity will be needed at the show.

]]> http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2012/02/05/dallas-self-reliance-expo-looming/feed/ 0 BHM Radio Show tonight at 6 Pacific Time http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2012/02/02/bhm-radio-show-tonight-at-6-pacific-time/ http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2012/02/02/bhm-radio-show-tonight-at-6-pacific-time/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:58:44 +0000 Dave Duffy http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/?p=2558 Don’t forget the BHM Radio Show tonight (Friday, Feb. 3) at 6 pm Pacific Time (9 pm Eastern Standard Time). Patrice Lewis, one of BHM’s favorite writers, will be the guest. She and her husband, Don, run a home craft business selling wooden tankards and they homeschool their kids. You can find some of her articles by clicking here. Their tankards are superb, a combination of functionality and works of art. I’ve had a half dozen of them for years. Here’s their website.

Their tankards come in all sizes and shapes. These are mine.

Click this link to tune in to the show.

Torn ligaments, not broken foot

Turns out I have torn ligaments rather than a broken foot. I can’t play golf for a while (2-3 months heal time, the doc says), but I can cut wood to stay in shape. I wish I had as good a form playing golf as I do cutting wood.

]]> http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2012/02/02/bhm-radio-show-tonight-at-6-pacific-time/feed/ 1 Broke my stupid foot http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2012/01/28/broke-my-stupid-foot/ http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2012/01/28/broke-my-stupid-foot/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:34:37 +0000 Dave Duffy http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/?p=2556 My right foot has been acting up for a couple of weeks, making it impossible for me to walk the golf course, but I’ve been playing golf anyway with the help of a golf cart. Today Toby Stanley, the high school golf coach, and I had a “match play” game with Dewey Powers, owner of Spinners restaurant in Gold Beach, and my dentist, Dr. Tom Westfall. At the start of the match I asked Tom for the name of a podiatrist he had mentioned to me a couple of weeks ago. I knew it was time to solve this foot problem.

Turns out I had to call the podiatrist sooner than I figured. Toby and I were ahead by three holes by Hole 7 when I hit my second shot over the green into some trees. While looking for it, I stepped on a root with my bad foot and felt a pop. Golf match over for me, although I road the cart while the other three finished out the front 9 holes. Tom called his podiatrist friend on his cell phone and I have an appointment Monday for what I suspect is a broken bone right above the ball of the foot.

Oh well! While I’m waiting for this to heal I can work on a short book I’ve been trying to complete for three years. I’m determined to go to the Dallas Self Reliance Expo, broken foot or not.

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BHM Senior Editor John Silveira was at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah today and got a round of applause from 1800 film critics after they were told he was the author of the Backwoods Home Magazine classified advertisement that led to the creation of the much anticipated film, Safety Not Guaranteed. John texted me just a little while ago and said he felt like a celebrity, with Hollywood-types asking to have their photo taken with him.

The new film is one of many taking part in the Sundance competition, which goes from January 19-29 in the cities of Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah. John was the guest of Colin Trevorrow, director of the film. The film premiered Sunday night, and here’s part of a story that appeared in the Seattle Times by reporter Christy Karras:

“The audience at Sunday night’s premiere screening of “Safety Not Guaranteed” broke into spontaneous applause and cheers before the movie even hit its final scene.
That was one of a few good signs for the Seattle-based film, chosen as part of the Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Another good sign: the number of potential buyers lining up for tickets to the screening, so many that even some people involved in making the film couldn’t get in. After the screening, some of Hollywood’s best negotiators buckled down to work on a distribution deal that will likely come before the festival ends . . .”

MTV.com’s Kevin P. Sullivan rates the film as “one of the ten most anticipated films” at the Festival.

You can click here to see a YouTube video of Director Colin Trevorrow discussing the film.

If you’d like to read the story behind the ad, John wrote about it in BHM’s Issue No. 125. It was this story that caught the eye of Colin Trevorrow who, unbeknownst to John, had been searching for the ad’s creator for several years because he wanted to make the movie. He contacted John immediately and the rest is movie history.

I’m just delighted for him.

 

 

 

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