Dobie Gillis and Maynard

Home is where your car is . . . well, not really, but here sits Patina, my veggie Merc at the back door of my home du jour! Barn again!

Okay here's the deal . . . we will all go to our local grocery stores that sell organic produce and collect stickers that tell us it is organic from every shopper for one day and we will roll them all into a ball! more on this later as i figure out how to choreograph this move.

spent my early evening watching the bird traffic around the barn . . . one needs an air traffic controller here as they are all winging in every direction and then the bats fly into the mix . . . i'm sure there are a thousand bats in the barn . . . now i am starting the bat guano tea for the gardens on the ranch

a sterling day as i blog by my barn window . . . off to the Sebastopol Farmers Market as i missed Petaluma yesterday . . . was open at the yard too long!

Bugaroo

Taking Time

I know we have all noticed that there is no time left in the day any more . . . as we swept into the information age and we were all going to get things done so much more efficiently, we are instead found with the capacity to do so many more things that your friends don't even have time to email you any more. Of course the me generation can text while they walk and talk all at the same time . . . where will they be at when they're 50? 

We went through a week of another slow start but finished with a flurry. I love the people i meet in their various pursuits of patina and green building . . . of well intentioned deal shopping or leafing through the yard as art!

. . . and watching bright eyed kids bush tailing through the stacks and cooing with curiosity, destined to find purpose in the most innocent piece, imaginations unbound!

the Plankster

 

A little bit of everything!

Office Notes . . . as it finally dawns on us why the printer/copy/fax machines come so cheap . . . because they sell you ink refills with about as much ink as a ballpoint pen in them for $20-$30 . . . what's up with that!! (very nice of them to recycle your ink refill container and put 2 grams of ink back in it and you buy it again for $$$$$$ . . . sheesh 

Home notes . . . my latest home improvement effort has yielded immediate results, i think i should be one of those curb appeal consultants for home sellers . . . i have watched this old bird house just outside my "home in a barn" window and wondered why no one had moved in! well, there was no little roosting stick under the doorway so drilled a hole and placed a small stick of eucalyptus and within 24 hours the joint was sold!

Road Notes . . . why are biofuels going up faster than fossil fuels? i guess i better filter my stash of used veggie oil as it's value keeps increasing

Food notes . . . so glad that farmers markets have all started up again . . . such a pleasure to give the money to the farmer, not to mention buying organic food that doesn't have inorganic stickers on it to tell you that it's organic . . . shouldn't it be the other way around?  let's see . . . genetically engineered food gets two impossible to remove stickers, standard fare one sticker and organic food should get to speak for itself!!

We could really make Memorial Day memorable if we honored those who died in the service of their country by devising some method of deciding our differences without killing anyone!

The yard at Heritage Salvage has been cleaned up and now the other half is for rent . . . trying to decide if we can afford to go in this direction . . . i always wanted to make an architectural disneyland of the whole thing and what with the new selection of slabs and more lovely pieces finding their way into the yard each day maybe there we go . . . will the sun shine on this new possibility?? we have been annexed by the lovely town of Petaluma and we are so happy to be here . . . i think we need to have a welcome party . . . it is Memorial Weekend  . . . bring back the wooden nickel!

MP 

Gazillionaires

The problem with our set-up on this planet is that there are just a handful of gazillionaires and a gazillion of handfullaires! As we watch big business take and take in this big old country where all you need is a gas pump to stick it to the population . . . lookout world, Butterfly just got her license . . . last seen in Humboldt driving a Humvee campaigning for more bus stops in a world that don't know how to stop . . . shooting for discovery channel with the great crew from Authentic TV (that's Mathilde sitting on a 21 ft redwood slab with camera dude and the bugster talkin' smack) has vaulted the purpose of HS and our "Barn Again Tour" on the fast track to doing our treatment for the Television tour of same name . . . hope to start putting together step two soon . . . from one of many, lands of weird weather and wonder that it isn't weirder . . . when gas is ten bucks will we drive less or just complain more . . . can't we put those profits somewhere good instead of oil companies slick parachutes for golden executives . . . have a merry time of it all!

the Merry Plankster

Shooting for Discovery Channel

 We love these old barns baby!

Tuesday, May 20th, spent the day with a great crew from Authentic TV. shot for 8 1/2 hours at three locations. Mathilde the producer was great, French, grew up in Africa . . . up at Rick and Lamar's barn in west Petaluma . . . great Couple who definitely get the concept . . . disturbing site on the way to the shoot, somebody who bought a piece on the corner of Middle two Rock and Eucalyptus brought in an excavator and a bunch of dumpsters and trashed 3 barns that were in better shape than the one we are taking down for the shoot . . . after trying to pound this point across for the last five years, and all the green, recycle news stories and awareness, how is it that people do not get it yet . . . here is a photo of the view from Rick and Lamar's and this beautifully patina'd old barn!

The day before the big shoot . . . discovery channel discovers heritage salvage discovering salvage and salvaging the heritage of it's discoveries!!

the Merry Plankster