Godfathers, Guns, Norman Rockwell and a ...

I must be getting old. It seems only a short while ago, I could get through an airplane flight and a full day of sightseeing and still manage to post a 1000 word essay every night (with pictures!) We just got back from a whirlwind trip to Minneapolis to stand as Godparents and it’s taken me days to put up a post about it. (I’m going to blame technology since the old laptop...

The Last Living Juror in San Francisco

As I have for the last twenty or so years of my life around this time, I am again serving jury duty. And there is something very wrong with this picture. I’ve done the math and it just doesn’t add up. A little background: when I moved to this city, one of the first things I did was register to vote. Which immediately put me in the jury pool. At that time, you were eligible...

An Angel Goes to Heaven

This is not generally a current events blog. I reserve my snarky political commentary for Twitter. Which, I know, confuses people who have followed my recent steady stream of 140 character “roasts” of The Luv Guv Mark Sanford to this site. Only to find, not politics, but grapes, coyote poo and terriers. (Although The Luv Guv did shovel a lot of poo when he used...

Here’s What We Need: Some Wacky Co...

With fruit harvest just around the corner and grape harvest only a few months after that, I’m making lists. Lots of lists. About all the things I need and the stuff I need to do up at Sonoma. But the other day, it really hit me what I need most. Some Wacky Country Sidekicks. It all started when I got the old Claudette Colbert/Fred MacMurry classic, The Egg and I, from Netflix....

Farm Report Wrap-Up

A good week of heat and things are exploding up at Two Terrier Vineyards. So we loaded the terriers into the ATV and drove around the spread to see the progress. Some of our fruit trees are looking as if they are still settling in and won’t be producing a crop again this year. Others, like the Pluot, Peach and Nectarine, are nearing ripeness. So far my Mylar bird deflection...

The Mission Mission: Mission San Jose

The other day, I needed to go down to Fremont on an errand, which allowed me to pick up another mission on my quest to see all the missions founded by the Spanish during the colonization of California. Surprisingly, I’m finding that a lot of missions I haven’t yet seen are right in my backyard, as was Mission San Jose. And like the other northern missions, I found this one...