Glad I went yesterday.... looking kinda nasty today...... also glad I went out on this side of the mountain...... had only 2 other guys out, and both had smiles on their faces. Rumor has it that on the otherside , much attitude and unsmiling faces..... Life is good! Today, WSW 12-15ft @ 10-15 sec's with SE winds 15mph, high tide at 11am, air temp in the mid 50's, water 50. Saturday WSW 12ft @ 15 sec's with light S winds, dropping later in the day. Sunday WSW 8ft with light S winds. Monday SW 5-6ft with light SE winds. Tuesday SW 8-10ft with light S winds. Wed. SW 8-10ft with light S winds. Thursday SW 8ft with S winds 15mph. So.... today is visitors blog day.......... Going to start with one of our favorites, at least for this week.... Mr. Flounder...... FLOUNDERS BLOG Special Edition: Travels With Mekenas This could very well be the last time I post anything on the CBS Website. I know, some of you have been hoping for that for a long time. For the rest of you, here is why. I will be heading down to San Diego on Sunday for a work/fun trip. as with all things that occur in the universe if you are in tune with it, it just so happens that my work responsibilities and Marks annual trip to the ASRC are at the same time. So, it was already planned for Smokin Hot to meet me down there on the last "work" day, for a little surfing and a Tijuana Run, and then Mekenas tells me he is headed down and will be there at the same time. Great, hang out with Mark, go to the surf show, sounds good. Then the emails start rolling in. As it stands right now, I will either be in the back of a patrol car with a ugly transvestite, thanks to Marks sister, (Uh, she is not the ugly transvestite just for the record), or beaten to death by his deranged mother for not coming out to El Cahones for dinner. Anyway you look at it, I will either come back sworn to secrecy, or have blog material to last a lifetime, as well as great blackmail stuff. Bottom line, I might not make it back. Good news for you guys at the Cove, I won't be out at The Point stealing your waves anymore. Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on, this could be a fun ride. Flounder Next is the ongoing saga of the new Frog Eyes Wasabi project, aka Markus..... > Last week four Goddesses told me that if I surrounded myself with > wonderful people, great things would eventually occur. I'm glad I > heeded these sage sirens. If it weren't for my wonderful friends, > our progress would be retarded and our success dubious. Thanks to > Ernie, Rob, John and Buck (not the four goddesses mentioned > earlier), for their vision, imagination, steady backs, tractor, > patience and hospitality and being generally wonderful folks. > > A farm can't be successful in isolation. Eventually, everybody needs > a little leg up. The more neighbors we meet, the luckier we become. > We have some good folks flanking us. I'm thankful for them too. > > We set 80 galvanized steel posts, ranging from 48" to 65" in 2-foot > X 9" holes that we dug with the auger. We leveled the posts using > John's high-speed-low-drag-self-leveling-laser-level. We took > delivery of twenty four, 24-foot steel poles that we cut into posts > pertaining to that post's topographic relationship to its twin > across the minor axis. (Thanks to the great folks at Oregon Valley > Greenhouses for the deliveries and the advice.) We poured two 60# > sacks of concrete in each hole. For power out to the site we used > the generator to power the cement mixer and drill press (yes, we > hauled an ancient drill press out to the site as well.) We were > fortunate that it was again summer in late January as Saturday was > sunny and we were in our shirt sleeves (it rained biblically the > next day, but it is an El Nino year after all). > > Next week: irrigation ditches, pipe, trees and maybe, just maybe, > power to the site. > > TTFN, > Markus > > As always, previous updates are also on www.FrogEyesWasabi.com From Mike and Aleka, they just had their first son.... HI Mark...Well, we officially have our new addition to the family!! Belen Kenneth Davidson was born on 1/21/2010 at 6:34 am...weighing in at 7lbs 14 oz, with a length of 20 inches, and a head of dark hair!! He is fantastic, I can't wait for you and Maria to meet him.....how are our other beach babies doing? "buck" and Rian....I hope very well!........We created a facebook page, it's helping us stay connected to my family in Greece, and our friends all over...Mike put in a friend request for the surf shop page, I'm mentioning this because there a pics of the baby on there..........Looking forward to a trip over sooner than later, we will be in touch. xoAleka ps would I be able to yank and print a pic from the report the day the kid was born? you had a beautiful shot of haystack and I would love to have it for his room pss fyi belen is pronounced just like helen...it's a Greek word meaning arrow, but we are using the Gaelic spelling and pronunciation to honor both our heritage