Category: Handfuls of Home

Every couple of years on Mother’s Day, my family honors the neighbors and emergency personnel who helped us when our son was in a terrible accident in 2009 by reposting this story.

World Deer states that the chances of a deer having albinism is one in twenty thousand, though some others say it is as rare as one in thirty thousand. 

“Carl Young provides us with this colorized photo of Lucille Vinyard, a Santa Cruz native that became known as the “Mother of Redwoods” for her extensive advocacy work to protect the redwood forests on the North Coast.”

“Redwood Coast Montessori High School students are in the middle of painting a huge new mural at the corner of 8th and K Street in Arcata. The mural celebrates the North Coast, and is a collaboration with Cal Poly Humboldt students and the community.”

Though our roads are in dire need of maintenance, I, for one, am grateful we’ve progressed beyond wooden guardrails and rerouted some of the more dangerous roads of yesteryear

“Mike Rowe, best known for his Discovery Channel series, ‘Dirty Jobs’, visited Dick Taylor Chocolate in Old Town, Eureka as part of his series, ‘Somebody’s Gotta Do It’.”

“On Saturday, during Arts Alive, Eureka celebrated the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Rabbit in Old Town at the Clarke Museum.”

Can you identify the year and model of Harley-Davidson featured in this photo?

“It was magical to me and I had the freedom to roam. If they wanted me they would send Gypsy, the collie, to come get me. It. Was. Heaven.

I was ruined… this was the life I wanted.”