Friday, August 31, 2012

Sea Ranch

Napoleon didn't bring this much stuff to Russia when he walked an Army across a continent, I told Baleen. Yeah, how'd that work out for him, she asked?

We're off to Sea Ranch, the 9 mile coastal community just south of Mendocino County, and one of the last land grants of the Mexican government before the Stars and Stripes said, I think we'll take that. It was given to Ernest Rufus, a naturalized Mexican from Wurttemberg, who brought in another German, Frederick Hugel, because the Mexican land grant said you had to improve the land. He probably left that up to Frederick while he picked abalone from the sea in front of him.

We won't be improving the land or diving for abalone, but we will be socializing past 8pm for the first time in months. But it can't be too late, becuase with four five month olds, all born within 12 days of each other, the crying's bound to start early.  

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