by Christine | Jul 19, 2007 | Welcome Column
Last March, CBA members Kenny and Carol House invited us, (me, Phil, plus my wife Ivona = Philvona), to their annual cioppino feed in Cloverdale. We drive through Cloverdale all the time to get to Mendocino or Upper Lake or other points north, but we’ve not...
by Christine | Oct 21, 2019 | Welcome Column
I remember the day I brought home my first guitar and excitedly opened the popular British instruction manual ‘Play In A Day’ by Bert Weedon. This classic book is still available, and its impact is summed up by the description on Amazon: “Play in a Day remains the...
by Christine | Aug 17, 2015 | Welcome Column
THE DAILY GRIST…“But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-and the ancient forest began to smoke. By morning there was a mass of booming, fiery tongues, a hissing, crashing, howling all around, half the sky black...
by Christine | Nov 18, 2019 | Welcome Column
I am so tired of fire season. The last couple of years here in Sonoma County have been too much for me. The smoke is unhealthy, your house is threatened and perhaps the worst thing is not having electrical power. When our power goes out, we have no water. Many of you...
by Christine | Nov 1, 2020 | Welcome Column
You’re all right, and I’m all rightThe wife’s all right, and the kids are all rightAnd I wanna go home, I just wanna go homeFire on my mountain, run boy runIt’s happened everywhere, all over the worldBut never before, never before, never before right hereThe house is...
