Back In Two Weeks
I wont have time to blog while I’m away so I leave you with some photos from around Santa Cruz. The O’Neil Cold Water Classic 2009
Archive for January, 2010
Termites – Again!
It was a beautiful dawn over Monterey Bay and that’s the last nice thing I have to say today. Two years ago we bagged the house, had it filled with a noxious, killing gas to murder the termites, we moved into the Venetian Hotel because we were terrified of the gas and…now we’ve got termites [...]
California Storms
While we have our electricity back, I’d thought I’d squeeze in a post. Last night’s storm was tremendous and today’s is supposed to be a lot worse with very high wind gusts and a big swell. What’s so interesting about these storms is that we’re getting thunder and some lightening and that is a very [...]
Sexy San Francisco
Two views from Coit Tower of the city and the bay. Golden Gate Park The Heads having a shower across from the Embarcadero. I hope Pat’s is still there. The colors sucked me in the door. Breakfast was delicious.
The Scent of Julia Child
45,000 eggs – 39,380 pounds of flour – 5,955 pounds of butter – 5,940 pounds of sugar and 1,870 pounds of chocolate a month and what do you get? Gayle’s Bakery and Rosticceria. She’s the cook when we aren’t up to the job and neither of us felt like cooking tonight. Jim has a cold [...]
Chapeau du Pain
On Nova’s Science night I found out that humans have about as many genes as nematodes and that corn has way more genes than we do. Corn. Why corn? We have to do a lot more than corn does on any given day. It’s hard to believe that we are who we are when we’re [...]
Capitola-By-The-Sea
We like it best in winter when things quiet down a bit. This is the Venetian Hotel in morning fog, a far cry from it’s sister hotel in Las Vegas. The lagoon in front of the hotel is a seasonal thing. When the rains begin and Soquel Creek starts to run fast out of the [...]
The Roadhouse – Gone Forever
I loved this place from the first time I saw it on the cliff at Pleasure Point. The Road House was built in 1902 with a saloon on the first floor and on the second floor were beds for “extracurricular activities” as well as a massage parlor. Bootleggers buried their contraband liquor in the sand [...]
Bookshop Santa Cruz
I finally had a chance to go downtown today to pick up my stash of books. I could see that the stash had grown overnight. Some kind elf, who hadn’t been available when I went in the first time, had added a few books on stroke to my collection. I’m leaving on the 12th to [...]
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