Those would be toyon berries, AKA Christmas berry or California holly. We also have native blackberry and strawberries growing down there.
These are drying in the greenhouse, from the tree across the creek. [IMG] Monterey cypress log waiting to be milled: [IMG] [IMG]
from /www.merriam-webster.com Definition of dingle : a small wooded valley : dell From www.dictionary.com Dingle: [ding-guh l] noun 1. a deep,...
You might have a dingle and not even know it. I didn't know I did until I read One Man's Meat, by E.B. White. :) He was at a tent revival in a...
A few weeks ago, we lost another coast live oak to a windstorm. It's down in the dingle, just up the draw from our little cabin. One that fell...
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's...
For the ice box, I made a frame and rabbeted the inside of the back to hold the 1/4" front slats in place with glue. It slips over the door and is...
I really like that potbellied stove. I might have put one in the cabin if I'd found one at the time. Instead, Dad cut and laid a real stone...
BTW, I know the restoration can be done. Here are my grandparents 1948 RCA Victor TV and my Dad's WWI vintage Philco radio. Both were restored...
First of all, don't plug the radio in or try to play it again until it's restored. The capacitors in it are probably dried out and might pop....
"We now have my Grandmother's phone in our home, but sadly it does not work." Heck, we can make it work. We have the technology. Assuming the...
We have a phone line to the house from our cabin down in our dingle (pictured in my avatar). The Panasonic system phone I installed in there...
There you go, Gary_602z. Any time you need a Central CA Coast fix, look at my sig. That's from my weather page, wx.sloweather.com.
No detour... If you went CA Highway 1 to MB from US 101 or the SLO airport, you were about 2 miles from our house. If, by some odd reason, you...
Ah, well, yes, firewood... Back in the early 50s, when they were getting ready to build that house I spoke of, the house was designed and laid...
Thanks everyone... :) Blacksmith, it's interesting that you mention getting more tools. After I cut the slabs and decided that there might be a...
My father and both grandfathers were accomplished woodworkers. When we purchased our acreage here in San Luis Obispo, Ca, 25 years ago, even...
