Comments on: Fire over (more or less) and back home

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:51:23 +0000

I just got her last summer and I love it! Dad was on it before I bought it, but he hasn’t been back down here since I finished my interior refit (wow mahogany isn’t cheap). I’ve got her docked at the Little Rock Yacht Club. Boating is a real addiction, and I’m definitely hooked.

It’s an expensive addiction, that’s for sure. Have fun with it.

By: Stephen Eades

Stephen Eades — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:36:47 +0000

Wow I didn’t know you guys lived on a boat! I have a 48ft Chris Craft Roamer. I have an apartment for the winter and plan to stay on it during the summer. Its a blast.

BTW glad to hear ya’ll made it ok.

When did you get a 48ft Chris Craft? Has your dad been on it yet? Where do you keep it docked?

By: LCforevah

LCforevah — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:07:49 +0000

On Saturday, both my sisters and their families had to be evacuated from Yorba Linda. Luckily, neither’s house got touched. One sister though, lives on a huge hillside where two streets above her, the entire street of houses went up, and two streets below her the embers randomly chose four or five houses to burn down. My sister was very fortunate.

Spent Sunday with my father…. in Diamond Bar.
Got stuck by the road closure of Diamond Bar Blvd, and couldn’t do any shopping for household things. I had shopped for food really early, so I baked chicken leg quarters, pressure cooked six pounds of chili, and finished off with pork chops and mushrooms in a port sauce. At least I got to feed my dad and friend, who was stuck with us. Fortunately the canyon fires were all to the west of my dad’s house, with the winds blowing westward and away from us. My family members were very lucky.

Hey LC–

Good to hear from you. I’m glad you and the fam made it through the ordeal. That’s what you get for going inland. You should’ve stayed there in Long Beach nearer the coast. Of course, I’m a half mile away from the coast and I was almost in trouble.

Cheers–

MRE

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:06:34 +0000

“When we first moved to Santa Barbara part time, we lived on a sailboat in Marina One. We were probably neighbors. When did you live there? We were there from Nov 1999 until about Oct 2001.”

I think I probably started there just after you left. I was on N-finger, first in the middle, and then all the way out at the very end, just across from the breakwater. Of course, that also meant I was just across from the foghorn, which made things interesting on foggy nights. But apparently you can accommodate to anything! It was wonderful to sleep out there, though, when all you could hear was the waves and the sea lions. Where were you? Is the boat you were living on still there?

We were on S-finger. No, the boat isn’t still there. We sold it to a guy who moved it to Ventura. It was a 44 ft Nauticat, a motor sailor.

We both loved sleeping aboard with the gentle rocking and the waves slapping the boat. What we didn’t love was using the marina restrooms and showers. Nor did we love schlepping our stuff the half mile each way back and forth from boat to car.

By: bev

bev — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:02:34 +0000

Hi Dr. Mike,

We’re very glad to hear that you all are OK.
We could see the smoke on the horizon, but got
distracted a couple of days later when the Sylmar
fire broke out (it’s about 4 miles from where we live).

Fire season sure keeps us on our toes, doesn’t it?

It does, indeed.

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:23:12 +0000

That should have said “You don’t look a day over (age minus 10).” But I used angle-brackets which caused great gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair within the blog software.

Sometimes I hate this blogging software. It causes plenty of teeth-gnashing on this end, too.

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:18:23 +0000

>>You can see from the photo I took above the giant scar the fire left on the hillside.

Hmm… Admittedly I’m daft, so tell me which part of the hillside is the ’scar’? Is it the large horizontal bare part of the hillside? It doesn’t seem blackened as is typical. The entire background certainly looks smoky/hazy but the photo is not as clear as the foreground, so I’m not sure what the scar looks like.

It’s hard to get the past the beauty of the foreground.

Happy BDay MD! You don’t look a day over .

The scar is the big, grayish-looking area that extends from one side of the photo to the other. It is the range of hills in the middle between that last range and the front one with all the houses on it. The middle range used to have houses on it, too, but they are all burned now. There weren’t as many houses as on the front range of hills, but there were plenty.

By: marlly

marlly — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:52:26 +0000

This is in reply to Katya. I used this link:

http://www.brantleycure.com/script/thecure.asp

I read the material outlining his “Cure” and when I got to the part where he defines constipation as fewer than two to three bowel movements a day, I said bye bye Brantley.
I’m 75, healthy, and I’m a once-a-day girl. My mother lived to be a lucid and beautiful 96 and she also visited the smallest room in the house once a day.

It’s possible that Brantley’s other ideas are useful and helpful but he lost me in the bathroom.

By: Katya

Katya — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:21:42 +0000

Lol, I was writing when my husband screamed on top of his lungs lets go giants. He is the biggest giants fan in the world. He is a football fanatic! He hugged, put me in the air and kissed me passionly. So I got excited and wrote “‘lets go giants” Not every time my husband puts me in his big hands, picjs me up and kisses me. So it was a spur of the moment comment, sorry Dr Mike! But what do you think of his statement that eating meat well done is more dangerous then smoking? Is it true that well cooked meat has more benzopyrene then 30 cigarettes? Have you come across any such conclusions from any research?

Well cooked meat probably has more benzopyrene than rare meat, and maybe even more than 30 cigarettes, but does that mean anything? I doubt it.

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:38:29 +0000

That’s a great picture. I know exactly where you shot it, I lived in the harbor for years, out at the end of Marina One.

I’m now living up on San Juan Island in the Pacific Northwest, across from Victoria. We just couldn’t handle the fires anymore. We had the boat in the harbor and a mobile home down in Paradise Cove in Malibu, and each year we dreaded waiting until the rains came, and lately they haven’t been coming much at all.

Santa Barbara and Montecito are beautiful places, though. And you can’t beat the weather, and the very special mix of people. I’m glad to hear you made it through this round of fires okay. Another friend of ours up on one of the ridges dodged a bullet as well. Some of his neighbors weren’t so lucky, however.

Next time you go into Brophy’s, say hi to Ara for us!

When we first moved to Santa Barbara part time, we lived on a sailboat in Marina One. We were probably neighbors. When did you live there? We were there from Nov 1999 until about Oct 2001.