by Christine | Aug 23, 2009 | Welcome Column
If you have ever had your property vandalized, I think you will sympathize with me. Three months ago we had our front yard re-landscaped with beautiful lush green sod. We went to the added expense of having a sprinkling system installed and decided to hire a gardener...
by Christine | Jul 21, 2014 | Welcome Column
I was going through the newspaper the other day and I came across an article about how the east bay city of Albany recently relocated homeless people from a waterfront peninsula called the bulb in order to make way for a new park extension. A couple dozen or so of the...
by Christine | Aug 8, 2014 | Welcome Column
I was remembering the first time I saw Homer Meeds house. I thought to myself this here looks like a movie set about some mountain man in Alaska who plays with grizzly bears. I guess I wasn’t too far off, turns out he got bit by a bear once. It took a hunk out of this...
by Christine | Jul 3, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good morning, once again, from Whiskey Creek, where last Friday I began clearing out a little brush from our llama pasture, a couple hours job I told Lynn, and in a few minutes I’ll head back down there for a fifth straight day of work in sweat-spewing sun and...
by Christine | Nov 17, 2013 | Welcome Column
I suppose everybody that’s hooked on bluegrass is by definition hooked on banjo. Some people say, with good reason, that Bill Monroe “invented” bluegrass. But without those Earl Scruggs banjo rolls to drive the music, that invention would be hollow. Without the banjo,...
by Christine | Apr 29, 2012 | Welcome Column
This is really scary. I’ve tried to avoid this day for the longest time. But now I have to do something I’d really rather not ever do. I have to rat somebody out. And I truly fear for my life. It’s my own fault. For years now, I’ve had this...
