One of my favorite racers came in dead last, Spicey Meatballs. Complete with wine and cheese, the meal included the driver and passenger’s heads as big meatballs in a pile of spaghetti. Unfortunately early in the third day they broke …
As the racers came in one by one, they lined them up along Main Street. I got a good close look at the workings of Mega-Sore-Ass, and it was one complicated machine. Six people pedaled, each with there own derailer …
Yesterday, in addition to being Memorial Day, was the third and final day of the Kinetic Sculpture Race. Today’s picture shows Sparkle, a ten foot tall horse, navigating the last, but worst part of the Slippery, Slimey Slope. This area …
Today was an only in Ferndale day. First, there was a Memorial Day parade down Main Street, followed by a ceremony at the Ferndale Cemetery. The ceremony was quite moving with nice speeches, and it was nice to see Memorial …
Day two of the Great Arcata to Ferndale Kinetic Sculpture Race took the contestants from Eureka, to Fields Landing and then to a campsite in Loleta where they rested up for the biggest challenge, Monday’s navigation of the Slippery, Slimey …
This morning we took Mom & Dad up to Arcata to watch the start of the 33rd annual Kinetic Sculpture Race. I’ll be posting many pics during the week of some of the most outrageous contraptions. This race really demands …
Today’s picture was taken on Lower Bear River Road, and it is one of my favorite vistas around Ferndale. On a clear day you can see out to the ocean. From this point the road then drops down into Bear …
Today was a visit from Mom and Dad and we then went to Eleanor May’s house in Bridgeville. Eleanor is Dad’s cousin, which makes her my second cousin? (something to research on the web). Dad was interested in jogging his …
Well it’s been awhile since I’ve updated the page, but as most of you know, I was on vacation, back in the wonderful Bay Area. So good to see all those cars again. Lori and I stayed with Carol and …
Some roofs come with a 20 year guarantee, while your better roofs are said to last 30 or 40 years. Then there is this one, guaranteed to last 30 days, and it even had trouble meeting that. This is the …
George is Portuguese. I don’t know Barnaby’s nationality but I don’t think he’s Mexican. But here they are in yesterday’s parade, with George doing his best bandito impersonation. Although history shows us that very few banditos drove carriages.
Ferndale, like most small towns, loves a parade. So even though the town has almost no Mexican heritage, we have a Cinco de Mayo parade. The parade took about 5 minutes to watch. After we watched the parade we drove …
At the recent celebrity auction that benefitted the Ferndale Repertory Theatre, they auctioned off several of the headstones from fake cemetery from the movie. It took me several tries but I finally nabbed one of them and then later got …
The sets are disappearing fast. This is all thats left of the diner. We had heard that they were going to haul it off in one piece so they could reuse it in other movies if needed, but they ended …
