
A Winter Day in Pacifica
We ate lunch at our favorite shoreline Pacifica restaurant today, the High Tide Cafe & Crêperie. Great salads! After which we hiked up to the top of the hill between Pacifica State Beach and Rockaway Beach. The views were, as always, spectacular. Plus, we got to meet this cute little
A Different Kind of Lemon Meringue Pie
It being Thanksgiving I baked a lemon meringue pie. I’ve been doing that for many years…and for most of those years the results, while tasty, were pies whose lemon filling didn’t set up well. That changed a couple of years back when I found a recipe that explained the chemistry
Calling Justice Alito!
You’re wanted in engineering! The rain sensor on my Davis Instruments Vantage Pro 2 wireless weather station stopped reporting…right before the first major storm of the season. Of course :(. The unit is pretty well designed, except that in climates like California where most of the year is dry the

Now That’s a Big Seal!
You can click on most of the images to enlarge them. Full-size, high-resolution versions are available in our Google Photos album. On one of my motorcycle trips down the coast through San Simeon, I’d passed a beach whose parking lot was jammed with cars. Because the beach itself was jammed

That Little Ranch in San Simeon
You can click on most of the images to enlarge them. Full-size, high-resolution versions are available in our Google Photos album. We’ve visited Hearst Castle several times over the years, but either the tours have gotten a lot better or our memories are totally shot, because the experience was much

Cambria
You can click on most of the images to enlarge them. Full-size, high-resolution versions are available in our Google Photos album. We decided to take a quick trip to Hearst Castle before the winter rains set in. We’d been there before, many years ago, but barely remembered the trip. Rather