TODAY, we want to congratulate and recognize our young cadet firefighters; Gus Spacek, Jareth Guzman, and Alan Aguilera!
Several of AVFD'S FFs and EMTs came by to support them as they recieved there High School diplomas. These young men have proven themselves, and we are proud to have them on our department! We wish them the best as they move onwards with their future plans. Well done!!
A READER ASKS:
I have a friend who would love to attend the music festival at the end of the month. She’s a little worried about the open use of marijuana. The smell makes her ill. Is it sparse or heavy. Can someone let me know?
VELMA'S FARM STAND AT FILIGREEN FARM
We Are Back!
Friday 2-5pm (we will extend weekend hours in the coming weeks.. stay tuned)
We are excited to re-open the farm stand for the season! Limited hours as we get started but hoping to ramp up to Saturday's AND Sunday's as the bounty increases. For fresh produce this week: sprouting broccoli, sprouting cauliflower, green cabbage, napa cabbage, garlic scapes, hakurei turnips, fennel, kohlrabi, beets, carrots, and kale. We will also have dried fruit, tea blends, olive oil, frozen blueberries, tomato sauce, and everlasting wreaths available. Plus some delicious flavors of Wilder Kombucha!
All produce is certified biodynamic and organic. Follow us on Instagram for updates @filigreenfarm or email annie@filigreenfarm.com with any questions. We accept cash, credit card, check, and EBT/SNAP (with Market Match)!
PETIT TETON FARM
Petit Teton Farm is open Mon-Sat 9-4:30, Sun 12-4:30. Along with the large inventory of jams, pickles, soups, hot sauces, apple sauces, and drink mixers made from everything we grow, we sell frozen USDA beef and pork from our perfectly raised pigs and cows, and stewing hens and eggs. Squab is also available at times. Contact us for what's in stock at 707.684.4146 or farmer@petitteton.com. (Nikki and Steve)
MY LATE FRIEND, JOE NEILANDS, a professor of biochemistry at U.C. Berkeley, told me he was going to write to figure out how much grape vines aspirated. The vines suck up a lot of water, and that's not considering how much water is expended irrigating them. Any way you consider wine production, it's terribly destructive, ecologically and socially.
IN THE ANDERSON VALLEY, “the romance of the grape” is a one way love affair conducted solely by the industry with itself, leaving out the dupes who pay more than Two Bit Chuck for a bottle of the stuff, and it is an industry in every sense of the term that Henry Ford would recognize. If those were potato vines festooned on the acres of metal grape stakes defiling dear Mendoland, we might have an enterprise worth having, as spuds are edible and easily converted to vodka. Think of it, Boonville! Instead of wine tastings we could have annual touri events pegged to how many edible ways local farmers prepare the Anderson Valley Potato!
THE WINE INDUSTRY, though, is no joke. Via the county Farm Bureau, once an organization devoted to non-industrial farming, it's just elected a supervisor out of Potter Valley, a very young woman of no experience in anything, not that relevant experience or even passable mental health has ever been a bar to public office in this county, but a young woman who can be depended on to promote the wine people who got her elected, a Mo Mulheren with a horse trailer.
SIERRA NEVADA WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL IS JUST 2 WEEKS AWAY!
Ticket discount for locals!
A weekend of authentic Roots Reggae, and irie vibes, with vendor village, international foods, Kidzone, workshops and fun for the whole family.
Take advantage of the Locals Only ticket discount, available to Anderson Valley residents (Boonville, Philo, Yorkville & Navarro)! Limit of 4 tickets per order.
3-Day Ticket $260
Friday Ticket $75
Saturday Ticket $95
Sunday Ticket $90
On Sale Now at the Mendo Fairgrounds Office. Bring proof of residence.
Kids 12 & under are Free (with ticketed adult), so bring the whole family to the fest! Plenty of free street parking
MOBILE MECHANIC DANIEL GETS IT DONE
I just wanted to show you guys my very first mobile mechanic job! This a 2011 BMW x6 that was overheating. You guys will never guess what was wrong with it. It has an electric water pump. But there was no power too it. It took a long time to trace back the wire and then found where it was broken internally and fixed it. Still did not have ground. I checked the ground and found one was loose on a broken bolt. Extracted the bolt put a new one and voila it fixed the overheating problem. Customer was very happy! Text me for any questions at 707-391-8899.
ONLY YOU MASOCHISTS would be interested in the mechanics of my urological adventures, which I'll spare you, but show me a guy over the age of 70 who doesn't suffer some sort of penile dysfunction, and I'll show you a fortunate man indeed.
I SAW the dick doc Wednesday for a follow-up exam caused by a "retention" prob, since cured by a miracle drug called Flomax. If you have trouble “evacuating,” ask the vegetarians, aka Adventist Hospital, for Flomax.
THE WAITING ROOM — this was in Marin — was a study in diversity, heavy on senior males, all with problems with their repro apparatuses. There were several geezers in wheelchairs, their attendants at the controls. There was a giant Sikh in formal whites, and a tiny, ancient Chinese gentleman in suit and tie, a virtual United Nations of penile dysfunction.
I GAZED at a poster featuring an illustration of a carrot with a bend at the small end. “Is this your problem?” No, and it's a problem I've never heard of, but given the obvious decrepitude of my fellow patients I instantly radiated a respect vibe not only to healthy carrots but to the doctors who not only had to examine all these one-eyed monsters but get them working again. There's a job for you!
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