I am at B Bryan Preserve in Pt Arena, these are clients who are trying to protect and breed endangered species from around the planet. Here are our friends Oona and Rianna tending to a sick Grevys 3 month old Zebra. There are only 1600 of these left!

tp://www.bbryanpreserve.com/ . . . we are privileged to be with these beautiful animals!

The Golden Gate

Here are the entry doors to a fabulous new restaurant in Berkeley called Gather by our good friend Ari Derfel and his gang of Merry Pranksters! the doors hold the last piece of the Dominican Heights Redwood Water Tank!

Here be a great article in the biz section of the SF Chronicle

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/17/BUQB1B4KVE.DTL

and may your Holidays end up being as delightful as you want them to be!

well gee whiz

Daily Acts Inspires

WHAT A FABULOUS WAY TO START A DAY, DIANE PATTERSON PLAYING HER DAILY AXE AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE DAILY ACTS OF OUR LIVES BREAKFAST ON NOVEMBER 5TH AT VETERANS HALL IN PETALUMA . . . AND THE INSPIRING WORDS OF TRATHEN HECKMAN LED US ON TO RICHER LIVES!

El Dia de Los Muertos

Celebrated on November 1st and 2nd in Latin and South America, El Dia des los Muertos is a ritual time to honor loved ones who have died and to acknowledge Death as a part of life!

Heritage Salvage is pleased to be part of Petaluma's Community cross cultural partnership and the artful, sometimes whimsical and very colorful celebration!!!!!!

TO ALL OF OUR LOVED AND DEPARTED ONES EVERYWHERE . . . BLESSINGS AND GREETINGS FROM HERE!

Use Whatever is Available!

and while the crew filled wheel barrels of wood chips, Corey Riddle represented the new recruit for Heritage Salvage

Now that is Rebuilding Together with imagination!

Petaluma's 350.org Day

as Petaluma embraced 350.org with a spectacular venture sheet mulching more than an acre of Lawn and planting drought tolerant landscaping and filling raised beds with edibles . . there was a fabulous turnout of volunteers that blanketed the grounds of city hall sticking their hands in the dirt and doing a fabulous job of following the directions of Daily Acts Trathen Heckman, Petaluma Bounty's Grayson James, and too many to mention others!

here is the mulch crew, who made this mountain into an undulating design of drought tolerating mulch setting a backdrop for many fabulous plants replacing the lawn . . . what a turnout!

FREE FIREWOOD AND MORE

the free firewood box gets all kinds of attention . . . this young lady was finding materials for seedling boxes, there are many crafts people that pick and choose and campers load up in the summer and locals heat the home in the winter!!!!!!

recycling at it's best!

SUPPORT YOUR FARMERS MARKET!!

Ahhhhhh . . . the joy of our local farmers market,

it is such a treat to wander the stalls, actually be giving money directly to local farmers and bumping into friends and neighbors and meeting new ones while the band blays in the Gazebo and two Fairy Princesses dance to the rhythm!

Go to your local market, wherever it may be, it is always a joy!

Amy, Farm Manager, at the head of a long list of diners, Grayson speeching at the far end

Paul Mackey left leads garden tour to Miguel's cobb oven and bench at Petaluma Bounty

Puget Sound

I forgot the joys of taking ferries through the Pacific Northwest, the ease of travel, the clarity of the water and the joy of sitting back and watching boats and birds and beach houses drifting by . . . there is much to be said for the Ocean Blue, the blue green planet and the place we hope to keep on it!

Set your sails for Heritage Salvage

and wonder at how cool everything might look without the power lines!

we got the power tyrone!

solar flower among the chairman of the board dressed in planetary colors!!

Joy of grace and good will!

Celebrate Farmers Market!

ooooh . . . the pickin is easy!


After the sproing of spring, my favorite time is the arrival of the weekly farmers market, and yesterday that was the day . . . from the redemptive health and allergy benefits of local bee honey to the purchase of a local egg and a fresh pulled onion . . . 

filling a basket with food that travelled less than 50 miles to get to your table is very gratifying!

of course the most gratifying is your own garden, and at HS we are picking our own lettuce, peas and carrots this week . . . and the community evident at a farmers market is a breath of fresh air

Support your farmers markets!

MOTHER NATURES MORNINGS!

THIS RAINBOW

LOOKED NORTH

FROM THIS SUNRISE, ALL WITHIN A MINUTE!
G'DAY!!!!!!!

at any large gathering it is recommended that one has an ambrewlance nearby!


And then . . . there  was the Lagunitas Beer Circus!!

fun and brew galore . . . ear bustin bands and salivary glands . . . a fabulous assortment on a sunday afternoon

edumacation

edumacation is the description of what we daily may encounter . . . street theatre may be the penultimate . . . the penultimate result of sustainable enthusiasm is the enthusiasm itself . . . i recently enjoyed the experience of a brief encoiunter with Lloyd Khan. . . publisher of Shelter . . . Lloyd's somewhat altruistic take on the shelters we adopt and adapt, that has become an ikon of our admiration of treatises on the assemblation of human shelter endeavour . . . or there are some really cool shelters in Lloyd Kahn's new book called Builders of the Pacific Coast! available from http://www.shelterpub.com . . . I see he is now traveling and sending blogs from other climes . . . i heartily recommend  his book, an inspiration to builders and shelters everywhere! 

Stimulus Simulation

Well, here is my theory of what we should do . . . chances are, that it is an amalgamation of many theories, melting into one pot and trying to cook up something good with leftovers . . . and first of all, i think we are going backward by trying to fix what is broken the same way it got broke . . . and broke may be a key word here . . . . welcome to the United Mistakes in America!!!!!!

now i think we should fix it all from the bottom up . . . all these high falutin numbers that we can barely wrap a computer around, never mind our noggins, are only going to print more money of less value and leave us in the same hole . . . now these politicians and businessmen that cannot run their own businesses toss out a billion like it's some cool piece of change that we all get . . . a perspective!

1) a billion seconds ago it was 1959!

so as the gang all wings around billions to fix something that doesn't work, why don't we put all the money into what will work . . . alternative sustainable energy sources . . . wean ourselves from what has already become peak oil . . . build jobs, retool factories, detroit windmill and solar . . . and if we're bailing them out and it works then we own a big piece of the pie right!

2) a billion minutes ago Jesus was walking the planet

so another novel concept would be to rebuild the country the way it got built in the first place . . . hard work, local contact, support your local business and bite the bullet that it's going to cost more (we already have haven't we?) if we need to take back the country then we can do it one person at a time . . . same way it got started

3) a billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the stone age!

if we started making more of everything here, it would rebuild the balance of trade, after all, we are the worlds largest debtor nation, although we would have to wean ourselves from wanting new made in china cheap everything and start making things last and it would probably be the demise of Walmart . . . it would be a long and painful process but right now, it is fast and painful!

4) a billion days ago there were no beings on the planet walking on two feet

and we could be headed back in that direction faster than we think . . . although we can forestall the inevitable by building sustainably . . . and i think some of our best ideas locally are contained in the Scoping Plan for California's Global Warming Solutions Act! this thing is filled with a bunch of great ideas, a bunch of people that understand you need to tweak them as you go . . . they'll keep getting better . . . check it out at http://www.coolplan.org   

5) a billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it!!

now i am going to do some more studying, and see if i can figure out what myself and my little band of salvagers can do to help fix this wagon!

my best to all of you

Bugaroo! 

The Time is Now!!

First TV Commercial

here is the Bugster, BooBoo the Scottish Longhair and a lovely little ditty filmed by good  friend Beau Bouverat , video whiz extraordinaire of Tin Bike Productions   . . . check him out at http://www.tinbike.com

cheers

Family Deakin

I travelled to Birch Bay Washington and reveled in the bosom of my family for 4 days . . . celebrating Mom's birthday and getting to have coffee and good morning kisses from all my sisses . . . i drove north and south with the sterling Na Na's and we had a blast!

High Hopes and High and Dry

As we set our site on a new year and a new president and a new feeling of hope among the rubble of the great American Free Market system . . . can we fix the economic crisis the same way we broke it? Will printing more money after bad devalue what is rapidly becoming a "pass the buck"

In the toasty Riviera like climate of January California i think to myself . . . gee, the first parts of global warming sure are pleasant . . . but what will we do when Lake Sonoma is dry in June??

I have successfully removed my holdings from that big box bank of A and am most happily ensconced in the circle bank . . . we shall see what down the road may bring!!

i am embarking upon a radio program to see what i might do to change our advertising route . . . i am jumping in to the River (not the Petaluma) but the radio station and also beginning a series of bug  rants videos . . . we will then be strutting our stuff on you tube and matching it to facebook and merrily blogging along