Spring is in the Air

Step One: Charge Battery

GATS Been Busy

Graffiti Against The System
Round the way.

Chasing the Monkey

Hey!

I know that Morris Minor!

West Coast Weather Report

Can we just go to

Defcon: Drought

right now or do we have to wait too long, till it's beyond fixing, till the greenhouse gasses are destroying the reality we've been told we deserve?

The way this Winter is going we are going to be way below our snowpack/reservoir reserves and I do believe it will be a hot summer, jacking the Valley into their life of air conditioning; electricity will get very expensive.

Then the fires will ravage the extremely dry landscape and states of emergency will be declared from Chico to San Diego. There isn't any money now, there won't be any then.

I'm just saying. We're already in a drought situation here in California.

I guess I'll wag the dog and brew another batch.

West Coast Weather Report

It's been a crazy mild winter so far. We had maybe six days of rain and it just ended with a forecast of mid 60s for the week. Just before the rain came for a visit we were back out to the Berkeley Marina for a beautiful afternoon. The burrowing owls were back as well.

No Wind = No Sailboats

The clearest evening. So still and slightly eerie; it felt like earthquake weather.

農曆新年

This man is beyond consideration. Now is the time, the time is now.

Today's Photo

Title: Bam!

Tracing Lines Through Time

OK. Let me see if I've got this.

My mother, Rebecca Jane, is the daughter of Jane Marie, who is the daughter of William and Ethel.

William is the son of Thomas and Ellen.

Thomas is the son of John and Mary.

Veteran - Civil War
"A native Parish Claremorris Co Galway, Ireland"
(I have been to Claremorris, now in Co Mayo, and have friends there)

"Born Co Galway, Ireland"
(the quotes are what's on the tombstones according to the Richland County, Wisconsin cemetery website)

William Bann is upper right. Thomas and Ellen in the front row. 1905

Just one ancestral string.