Please pardon my rewriting of that famous children’s rhyme but I thought it fitting since your gardens are probably over run with juicy ripe tomatoes of all kinds. I have a friend who has a very green thumb who now has a plethora of various types of tomatoes from the exotic Cherokee purple to the […]
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A Different Drummer: First leg of a Yosemite hike for the aged
Five of us in our 60s hiked the Yosemite backcountry and lived. I want to thank my hiking companions for their perseverance as I hiked with healed back injuries, a flat foot, and diastasis recti requiring me to wear a truss to hold in my gut in: my lovely wife Susan with her sciatica and […]
From Heidi’s Kitchen: Picnic salads
Here we are in the middle of August. It is a little cooler and damper in the morning. The air is hinting at fall. But it is not too late to have one last picnic before the kiddies go back to school and the days get shorter. I was at a free concert in Stern […]
From Heidi’s Kitchen: Special salads for summer
It is the point in the summer where the heat is getting old and you are running out if ideas for an interesting meal that does not call for turning on the oven. Well, how about a salad? Not the lettuce, tomato, cucumber, red onion buried in some store-bought Italian dressing type of salad– although […]
A Different Drummer: Fisherman’s Journal, Part One
OK, I finally went fishing, real focused fishing, not fishing from the car, or fishing on the fly, or fishing with others. Not fishing with a timer running. This was open-ended go-it-alone fishing. I packed my camping gear into my dented pickup truck and drove off alone into the mountains. I left last Monday and […]
From Heidi’s Kitchen: Dreaming in Cuban
“Dreaming in Cuban” by Cristina Garcia, is the title of a wonderful book I read while recently on that island and how I felt for many weeks after taking a trip that was transforming in many ways especially for a culinary teacher. It was a daily adventure to explore what a wonderful country Cuba is […]
The A Cappella Handyman: A kind of DNA analysis…
1. Adolf Viggo Larsen (“Farr”) picked me up at the back door steps at 98 Castro Street, San Leandro in his 1936 LaSalle, 4-door family sedan everyday after work and we’d drive the remaining 50 feet or so to the barn-garage, beneath his homing pigeon loft above. What a thrill for a toddler, riding with […]
Planning Commission denies use permit for Industrial Park hot dog restaurant
The Benicia Planning Commission unanimously voted to deny a use permit for a hot dog restaurant on Bayshore Road at Thursday’s meeting. According to staff, the site had previously been operating as an event center without a permit. In 2015, a business named La Fabriquita was established in the south end of the Benicia Foundry […]
A Different Drummer: You’ll eventually meet Kirby
Welcome to episode four of Old People on a Southern Road Trip — me, lovely, tolerant Susan, Gino the carpenter and Patricia the Waldorf teacher. Gino was driving his truck full of tools home to Philadelphia. Sue and I came as far as Memphis. We pick up still in New Mexico headed toward Austin, in […]
A Different Drummer: First there was Roger and Spike
Ready for a road trip? Up for some new characters and unexpected detours? Come with us. We just finished one, and I kept notes. You see, Gino was here for a month. He drove his truck from Philadelphia so he could get around in California and also take home all the tools he’s been storing […]