Breezy’s Blog

When in town, don’t forget the groceries, eggs, milk, bread and cream cheese.

The last foray into the vast traffic jam of Santa Rosa Breezy bought some bagels. Good bagels they were. Poppy seeded are favorites at the ranch. Unpacking the goodies brought oohs and ahhs from the admiring consumers awaiting satisfaction — until the lack of cream cheese brought a nasty reproach. “How could you buy bagels and not buy cream cheese?”

Bagels with appropriate buttery spreads apparently only apreciated by Breezy. Putting other spreads, jam, hummas, sour cream, pickles or fruit brought a “Oooooh, eeeckk, gross” from the resident teenager. Stories about how Elvis loved peanut butter and bananna sandwich forced a hurried exit.

Do not forget the tamale sale tomorrow.

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The gallery of cartoons will end at the end of the month.

The syndicated columnists will also end at the same time.

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A redesign of the Navigator website is underway. Stories will all begin on the front page and jump to other pages. Surfers will find what interests them easily. Organization of past stories and archives will be simpler. Additional archive resources will be added.

The long awaited success of the Joy Road Association in the battle against CDF is truly good news. CDF’s handling of Timber Harvest Plans only simplified non-sustainable high yield logging. It is possible that the implications of the Supreme Court decision will start a new era in forestry regulation.

Great day for standing on the dock and shooting the breeze. Do it more often, I’m told, and you can be wealthly, healthly and wise.

Among the bits of news to pass along is that the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office has assigned three new detectives to the Manuel Santos murder. Out here in BB we could read that as using fresh eyes to examine the case. The Governor’s raise of the reward makes it stand at $35,000 for info leading to …

Another interesting bit comes from the Marin County Sheriff’s Office. With the eradication of over 40,000 marijuana plants in West Marin this season, the Sheriff is taking a new approach. In one grow site, plants more than 10 feet tall were so laden with plump sinsemilla buds, the stalks sagged parallel to the ground because of the weight.

The new approach isn’t spelled out in detail, but you and I could assume the effort will be to prevent pot plantings rather than pulling them out of the ground. They  recently did some cleanup of debris left by growers.

Marin Conservation Corps and National Park Service personnel worked last week to clear debris from the grow sites. A helicopter from the Air National Guard lifted out more than 60 cubic yards of waste, including irrigation pipes, garbage bags, fertilizer and pesticides.

Point Reyes National Seashore officials said it cost more than $100,000 to clean up the mess.

I’m sure you heard about the grow houses seized in the Central Valley. Growers bought numerous tract homes and filled them with pot plants.
Law enforcement officals speculated the growers bought the numerous houses expecting some to be found and seized chalking the cost of the homes to the price of doing business.

Marijuana is the biggest cash crop in California.