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 …
Ayrica, who interned for me a couple of summers ago and has modeled for me a few times, announced that she and her boyfriend Jeremy are engaged. Since they both dance I thought it would be fun to take some …
The Ferndale Repertory Theatre is doing Godspell and I took the publicity and cast photos for the production. I haven’t seen the show yet, but maybe next weekend we’ll get the chance.
While I was in town doing my errands, I noticed a bunch of vintage motorcycles pulling into Tipples for gas. Most of them were Velocettes, although there was an odd vintage Honda and a few vintage BMWs tagging along. Some …
Around 12:30 am my pager went off for a structure fire on 5th Street. Those two words, “structure fire”, will wake you up and get the adrenaline flowing pretty quickly. When I arrived the middle section of the house was …
After more than a week of cold foggy days in Ferndale, it was time to venture out and find the sun. So Lori and I decided to pick a few random turnouts along the Avenue of the Giants and do …
I was stripping paint today with a heat gun, something I have a lot of practice with. Still I realize that it does have the potential to set your house on fire, which is what I did today. The piece …
Some paint went on, some came off. With the balls in place, the right gable is officially done, so the top level of scaffolding was removed and work was begun under the eaves. I’m finding that there is one real …
These little spindles above the porch have been a real pain in the butt. Originally I was going to have them tan and blue. So that meant painting them once with primer, then twice with tan, and then the middle …
Each of our gables feature 11 half balls and the old ones are pretty rotten. I figured it would be expensive to have them remilled so I started looking around for replacements. I found the perfect sized half balls online, …
With all the smoke in the air, and an interesting layer of clouds forming, it seemed like a good night to try to get a sunset at Fernbridge. Everything went well until the battery in my camera went dead, and …
hile I was out playing fireman, Lori decided to hunt for our rose bushes that had disappeared beneath the horsetails in the back yard. We now have a huge pile of weeds that we’re going to have to find something …
We didn’t get back to Loleta until around 1am and by 6am my back was hurting so I got up to watch one of the weirdest sunrises I’ve seen. With all the smoke drifting in from the fires, the sun …
I got a call today that Loleta Fire Dept was getting a mutual aid call and needed a third person. So along with Dave and Bob from Loleta, we headed over to the CalFire station in Fortuna. A lot of …
A group of volunteers raised money and with donations of supplies and labor, built 3 fine bocce courts in Firemen’s Park in Ferndale. Then they started the Ferndale Bocce Club. We have a potluck and play bocce on Sunday afternoons. …
With all five colors finished, the porch spindles are looking great. I would have had more photos from late last month and early this month if I had been able to find my little camera. That’s one problem with making …
Every year one of the special moments of the production is the numbers with the youngest ballerinas. You just can’t help but go “ahhh” when there are a bunch of two foot tall ballerinas on stage.
This year’s Ferndale Dance Academy production is La Marionnette, a story that Laura East wrote. Every year her production gets better and better and this year’s production was no exception. This year Laura started teaching a pointe class, and two …
Before Natalie and Dave left for their ride back to Oakland, we had time for a short shoot in the studio. Natalie wanted to do a corset shot, and when she mentioned she loved hats, well, I had to pull …
