The right bay window is nearing completion and the scaffolding came away. Next on the list is reparing the panels under the windows. The trim that is still green isn’t original. I’m guessing that after the earthquake the trim on …
ost recreational activities other than bocce have been postponed as I’ve really been trying to make some progress on the paint job. As you can see from this photo, we’re finally getting out of the endless fog pattern we see …
I was leaving the house for a fire department meeting when I saw these beautiful God’s Rays right over town. I rushed back into the house to grab a camera, snapped a couple of quick picks out the front and …
I took the production photos for Godspell tonight. I was supposed to take them a couple of weeks ago but on the day of the shoot one of the cast members ended up being a 911 call after she fainted …
The big bargain hunters garage sale in Ferndale was held again this weekend. Since I was busy painting Lori took some stuff down to a neighbors house that’s closer to town. We found out last year the crowds just don’t …
Lori and I got up to San Francisco with just enough time to eat lunch before her appointment. We grabbed some sandwiches and then walked up to the top of Alta Park to check out the view. Down the street …
FVFD responded to a single vehicle crash on Main Street around 4am this morning. Lori and I were planning to get up early anyways to leave for San Jose, but this was earlier than I had wanted to get up. …
As I’m making my way down the bay window, one more element of the new color scheme became evident. Another touch of blue showed up on the squares above the windows. In designing the color scheme, I have reversed the …
On the way back from Petrolia yesterday it was really windy along the coast. I stopped near Cape Mendocino to take some photos of the crashing waves, and even with both feet planted, I almost dropped the KLR because the …
I had to go to Petrolia today to drop off some photos, and on the way out of town I came across this calf and cat in the field together. The cat was following the calf around the field and …
Lori’s hearing problem has caused many changes in our household, and we’ve figured out ways to work around most of the problems that it causes. Hanging wallpaper isn’t one of them. It’s very hard to do sign language when both …
We finally got around to planting some of the ferns and hostas that we had in buckets for way too long. The baby tears are also going strong on the north side, and they’re starting to take over the house. …
Last year we were gifted a few rose bushes from a friend who received them from a friend who was pulling them out. In the transfer it was lost what types or even colors they were. So we were pleasantly …
It’s quite a rarity when we get more than one or two roses at a time in our garden due to the diligent pruning that our local deer population performs. So when I saw a cluster of Gertrude Jekyll roses …
While at Nielsens I saw that they had gazing balls so I bought one as a surprise for Lori so we could finally put the pedestal to use in the garden. In case you didn’t hear the story, when I …
I finally had to resort to caging my little escalonia starts because the deer were determined to make a bonsai garden out of them. I think they realized that some day these shrubs were going to grow up to become …
Saw this slug hanging from the remains of the greenhouse and it reminded me of that slug sex video I linked to awhile back. As much as I hate slugs, it was just too tempting to use this one for …
Speaking of the Del Sol, I came across a photo of it recently that was taken just after we got the polished rims put on it. The local climate had really done a number on them and it reminded me …
Once I found out that they covered Ferndale, I was wondering how much of the area they did. Found this shot of Lori’s old workplace in Eureka, and there’s the Del Sol parked out front.
The Google Street View cam has made it’s way to Ferndale, which was pretty surprising. I had looked a few months ago and it wasn’t there but today while checking something else I saw that most of the town was …
Today Lori and I went to the Humboldt County Fair as regular patrons. With everything going on this year I decided not to have a booth this year so we got to enjoy the fair as regular folks for a …
Finally got around to paining the porch and steps. It was really nice to see the water beading off of the steps the next morning. A few years ago when we redid the porch, the steps weren’t even primed and …
In California’s drive to have clean air they have in the last few years outlawed your basic gas can. Now it has to have some type of spill proof attachment on it, because apparently people spilling gasoline while filling their …
FVFD got called out to this fire out by the river bar. Not only was it an illegal day to burn, it was stuff that shouldn’t have been burning any day. Including one dead cow.
My absolute favorite vehicle from yesterday’s parade from Pebble Beach was this Alfa Romeo. Not only was it cute and clean, it came all the way from Monaco. Picturing driving this car around the roads that make up the historic …
We went into town this morning to have breakfast with some friends and a number of antique cars were parading into Ferndale. The cars were part of the Pebble Beach Concourse run. One of my favorite vehicles was a Model …
I’ve been waiting for several weeks for a day to paint the porch. It’s been so foggy lately that the steps had been too wet to paint. So this afternoon when the sun came out I quickly got to work. …
We stayed at Derek’s house while we were down there and after ignoring us the first night, Rocky finally realized that the his owners were gone and if he wanted some pets, we were it. While Lori was showering he …
We went down to the Bay Area to attend a cochlear implant picnic and help Mom move into her new condo. The picnic was very helpful in that the three implant companies were there and we could see their latest …
After a relatively quiet last few months, the FVFD has been busy lately. We responded to our second structure fire in a couple of weeks. That is if you can call an abadoned house trailer a structure. As with most …
