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   Gratitude. For a long time now, I have made a conscious effort to try and live my life offering gratefulness and gratitude for even the smallest and most insignificant things. It is so much easier to say Bless You rather than the alternate.
The large redwoods outside of my cosy, but chilly cyber-hut are dancing slightly as rain pours down! Good weather for ducks and mushrooms!
I truly believe that is the reason that I am still here, and able to write this column for you.
I want to let you know that the lovely Sky Garden in ‘downtown’ Caz is starting its 11th year—YAY! Fruit trees have been recently planted, including one that has 4 types on the one tree. Volunteers are welcome, whether you can come for 1 hour or more. Monthly workdays (weather permitting) are the 3rd Saturday. Share the work and share the food! Please contact Cathy
at schezer@comcast.net or call 632-5743 to help with this very valuable local resource. I have noticed that there are many coastal irises awaiting the
sun to bloom and daffodils are already colorfully decorating many of our roadsides,along with gorgeous tulip trees-always early bloomers.
A few weeks ago, I found myself in need of immediate medical attention and hospitalization. If it were not for a number of circumstances being just right, I would not have been able to get it.
Firstly, my family happened to be home and able to recognize the situation and call for immediate medical assistance.
Spring is in the air and the students at Montgomery Elementary School are looking forward to getting outside as drier weather permits.The Spring Break will be from March 18-22nd, with school resuming on March 25th.
Secondly, the quick and capable First Responders from the Timber Cove Volunteer Fire Department, were ‘Johnny on the spot’ stabilizing me, assessing the situation and preparing me for transport.
I am happy to report that Mr. Trombly’s Teas will be reopening in early March as The Duncans Millls Tea Shop. I haven’t heard anything new re ‘Treats and Toys’ and their possible resurgence. Raymond’s Bakery’s Friday Pizza and Music Nights are always fun, too.
Medic 120 Ambulance & staff were here in record time, and got me down to Windermere Point, a flat point on the ocean in Ft. Ross State Park to an awaiting Cal Star Helicopter for the bee-line flight to Memorial Hospital in Santa Rosa.
Remember Cazadero Supply’s 1st Saturday 15% Discount Day for many
of the items you may need for vehicle, garden and household projects. On sunny days, the back deck at Gold Coast Coffee and Bakery is a delightful place to relax, watch the kitties and have on-site freshly roasted coffee, scrumptious baked goods and yummy tacos made right there for you!
Local musicians often play and I love to bask in the sunlight when possible. The Cazadero and Duncans Mills general stores have daily groceries,
good sandwiches and locally raised beef, award-winning wines and body products. Cape Fear Cafe offers delicious California/New Orleans specialties and The Blue Heron has live music and a variety of potables.
Wow! I only wished that I remembered the trip. Oh, well! As I said, I count my lucky stars. So many variables could have been different; family not home – too cloudy to fly—I am fortunate indeed.
I have to thank my nurses and their staff on 4-North at Memorial Hospital in Santa Rosa. Especially the Nurses! I do not know how they hide their Angel Wings under their humble “scrubs”. 12 hour shifts—with loving attention throughout.
Knowing I was in their hands, and that they were taking the best possible care of me certainly took all of the anxiety out of the situation, put it in a positive framework and helped me to heal and get home! Caring Professionals is an understatement. Thank you!
It is not too early to make your reservation for the annual Russian River Jewish Community’s Passover Seder, to be held this year on Friday, April 19th at the pleasant Monte Rio Community Center. A wonderful spring ritual, with readings. live music provided by Jubilee Klezmer Ensemble, homemade matzah ball soup and a great potluck repast. Please call 632-5545 for more info and to reserve your place.
I want to wish our dear friend and one of the River Jewish Community’s founders Alby Kass a speedy and full recovery after recent surgery! Looking forward to hearing him sing the classic Go Down Moses at the seder!
BAD Timber Harvest Plan Alert! The floodplain of the Gualala River
is once again under attack! THP 1-15-042 known as the Dogwood III timber harvest plan is being forced through again, after two previous failed attempts. Unfortunately, the public comment period ends as I am writing this... Perhaps they will extend it. If so, please write to Cal Fire with you opinions, whatever they may be. With THP 1-15-042 (Dogwood) in the subject line to:
The Gualala River is already too warm to support a native Salmon population, so they have disappeared. The Steelhead are barely making it; and further degradation and imbalance of their habitat would surely doom them.
SantaRosaPublicComment@fire.ca.gov
Mega-wineries upstream have quietly diverted class-3 streams and drainages into their grape irrigation ponds, depleting what could be a healthy river aquifer, turning it into one with a town in a drinking water moratorium.
I wish Very happy March birthdays to Shawn Sheets on the 6th, Rose Abbott on the 10th, Nikki Canelis celbrates on the 13th, Wyatt Parmeter on the 16th,William Grider on the 24th, Annie Austin on the 25th and my dear friend and celebrated poet Susan Kennedy has her day on the 31st, along with Taj Hart.
The truly bizarre thing about this proposal to log the sensitive river banks and floodplains of their only trees of size (meaning they are more fire resistant!) is the fact that the timber company was offered what would be equal to their profits, in cash, To NOT Log These Trees!! And the company turned it down!!
Stay dry and please email me at mayawrld@sonic.net or call 632-5545 with info for your Cazadro Column.
Our planet is in a state of crisis, science has proven that Leaving these
trees intact would far out-weigh any perceived benefit to cutting them down (whatever that could be). Yet, these people are determined to take them. I feel both sad and outraged at once. Have we not finally learned?
through the forest to cross busy Hwy 1. The dead trees you are looking at are on lands owned by friends and family of the TCCWD Bd of Directors. Under the ordinance that they are eliminating, they would have been liable to clean up this obvious hazard, or it would have been done for them, and they would be charged.
 Here in my hometown of Timber Cove, the current Timber Cove Water District Board of Directors is busy Dismantling our Fire Safe Timber Cove Ordinances and Rules.
Under the new ordinance being rammed through, They are let off of the hook, if they “mow and blow” along the road.
We have been developing and implementing a local fire safe plan since the early 90’s. It was a long process with a few doing the work of many. But it was working! People were taking pride & responsibility in their private parcels, cleaning them of the fire-prone Pines and Tan Bark Oaks, while making the over-all health of the Redwood forests greatly improved.
Take a look at the creek canyon that lines the South entrance to Lee Drive.
It cuts up through the center of the subdivision, the most populated area of the coast. It is choked with dead and dying oaks and pines. A spark from the nearby High Voltage lines, or an accident on busy Hwy 1 would create an inferno that would be unstoppable until it reached the Fire Department on the ridge.
For reasons known only to the TCCWD Board of Directors, they are abandoning that plan in favor of a County Plan that is a ‘toothless tiger’ in comparison.
I do not understand how an Ego could be so big, that it could ignore an obvious threat to health and safety. This TCCWD needs to be questioned.
The next time you are out on Highway One in Timber Cove, take pause traveling just North of the Timber Cove Resort, along Hwy 1 up to Lee Drive.
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Note the dead brown pine trees lining the PGE lines as they come down

























































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