If you give me wilderness, waves and wine and show me a sign, I'll be

…uh…in Mendocino? (Apologies to Little Feat.)

This new sign on Hwy 101 northbound (in Sonoma County) omits any mention of Mendo’s number one economic engine, “weed.” The choice of “w” words for the other three features is almost a subtle joke, since whoever commissioned the sign was obviously aware of the county’s reputation and industry.

Whatever [read more ...]

Ever since and forevermore

By Mikal Jakubal

This post from two weeks ago was about a woman in Redway who has been feeding ravens and now claims someone is poisoning them. Her solution is a bit, um, wacky, to say the least.

The post generated a few comments, one of which I’ll excerpt below because it got me thinking about our [read more ...]

A trim room for one.

A little something on a Sunday morning, for once without a ton of words.

Trim room for one.

Hillbilly internet behind the Great Redwood Firewall

Internet antennas atop ancient redwood

SoHum’s off-grid lifestyle and our extremely rugged topography create special access challenges, whether by car or computer. We live on the dusty, tortuous, slide-prone backroads of both the physical landscape and the internet superhighway. We surf the web in high-clearance 4WD.

While many people are still on 16K-24K dialup modem connections [read more ...]

Save the ravens! Boycott SoHum weed?

By Mikal Jakubal

“Huh?”

That was my first thought as I drove by the woman holding the sign in Redway this morning. Being one of the more unusual protest signs I’d ever seen, I pulled over and walked back.

Here’s the short version that I got from her, paraphrasing a bit since I didn’t record it. She (who [read more ...]