Lori and I went to the shop tonight to do the final prep and cleanup before they start painting. We were joined by our friend Lowell, and Mark from Del Biaggio Construction. While Lori was cleaning the plaster dust off …
Here’s the back wall of the gallery, showing more trim, and the Eastlake pocket door that we made out of a door that was in the back portion of the shop. After a bit of clean up, the shop will …
Here’s one of the pictures taken on my second expedition to the middle of the Eel River. A bit better sunset, but still not the killer one I’m looking for.
Here again is why there weren’t too many updates this month. This is the front of the shop, after we installed some of the redwood trim that I carefully stripped. Some of you may remember helping me move this trim …
Today was the big annual car show in Fortuna, and after stripping wood all morning, I took a break to head on over and take a look at all the hot rods on display. One of my favorites was this …
The other night while I was photographing Fernbridge for the second time (you’ll have to wait for the pictures, I used actual film this time) I noticed that we were getting close to a full moon. I thought that would …
A friend stopped me on the street today to give me a photo-op hint, second time that’s happened this week. Today’s tip was to stand out in the middle of the Eel River and take a picture of Fernbridge at …
This is why there haven’t been too many updates lately. I’ve been spending a lot of time dealing with issues related to getting my shop ready. So much for opening July 1st. I’m now hoping we will be ready at …
While the last two days were spent with friends from our old old house club, today was spent with friends from out new old house club. We visited two cabins in Bear Valley that are owned by members of the …
After the fire engine rides comes the parade. If you’re lucky enough to be on the last fire engine rides, you also get to be in the parade. The 1923 LaFrance engine that the FVFD owns isn’t the only antique …
Fourth of July in Ferndale starts out with fire engine rides for the kids. Actually for me it started out by helping wash the fire engines so that they looked presentable for the rides and later parade. Rides were given …
This picture was taken the morning of July 4th, but I knew I would have a better July 4th picture to show, and this could have happened any day, so we’re going to pretend it was the morning of July …
An email from Linda pointed me to a web site for identifying garter snakes. I think what I spotted in our yard was a Thamnophis sirtalis infernalis or California red sided garter snake. Makes sense. Mom sent an email saying …
