After a week or so of warm weather, the fog rolled in last night at sunset. This is on Panoramic Highway near Mountain Home Inn, Mill Valley. Ocean (in background) blanketed in fog.

It looks like the best crab season in 3 years. By virtue of loaning my crab pot to Boone and Billy, I’ve been getting fresh crabs a few times a week. A typical San Francisco meal is cracked crab, sourdough garlic bread, salad, red wine or beer.

The Dungeness crab is a marvel of nature. They’re out there crawling all over the bay and ocean bottom, scavenging. The meat is sweet, high in protein and minerals. A local resource that hasn’t been killed off, hallelujah!

Josh, local fisherman, told me a while ago, “The ocean (here) is healthy!”

Commercial crab season opened today.

Below are 6 pullet eggs (bantam Auracanas and Silver Seabrights) for an omelete. I love these little eggs. I think bantams are probably more efficient (feed/output ratio) than full-size birds. Also, bantams make a lot more sense in urban, suburban, or near-neighbors’ locales.

Great review by Keith Goetzman in the Utne Reader blog. It’s so great when someone gets it.

“…a photo-splashed book full of amazing, rustic, wood-built dwellings and shelters on islands and in other remote seaside locations in the Pacific Northwest.

The area’s huge trees and ubiquitous driftwood lend themselves to curvaceous, organic design, and these builders take full advantage of these qualities in structures that range from a Hobbit-like gazebo to a spherical treehouse to grand but still-earthy luxury homes and spas. Many of the homes are reachable only by boat and perched in impossibly beautiful settings.

There’s a strong countercultural thread to these builders, many of whom were inspired by Kahn’s 1973 book Shelter, a bible of sorts for that decade’s back-to-the-land movement. And Kahn’s laid-back writing style is full of metaphysical allusions and meandering asides about his travels, giving it a whiff of patchouli and B.C. bud. But looking at these homes, it’s hard to doubt that there’s ‘a vortex of creative carpentry energy in this part of the world,’ as the book states. Moss roofs, bentwood railings, hand-carved details, natural motifs, and Native influences complement the area’s mossy, foggy splendor and speak to its natural and human history.…”

Photo: loft in dome by SunRay Kelley in Builders of the Pacific Coast

https://www.utne.com/Environment/Dream-Homes-from-Driftwood.aspx

Bob, author of our book Stretching, was recently interviewed by the San Jose Mercury News. An excerpt:

“The idea with stretching is to at least maintain what you have. Not to necessarily achieve super flexibility. I also think exercise and activity work best when you’re not on a team — because you don’t need to meet any standard but your own. When other people are making you do things, your body isn’t taken into account. So you’ve got to be careful of group classes. I’m not going to touch my toes before I even know how far I can stretch. And as you get older and stay active, you need to find activities that agree with you. I’m asked “What are the best activities?” and I often say, “Anything you’ll do regularly.” If you can walk, that’s what you should do. Because that’s what you always want to be able to do in your life. Walking is the one act that will allow us to remain independent and stay fit.”

Click here for Travelers Stretches. Print out so you can stretch while in the airplane and in hotel room while traveling.

This is like science fiction. They’re called Thirty Two Team. Sheesh!