Photos and video(s) of goats grazing at Woodside Priory. Apr-16-2026 Existing weeds Goats relative to weeds and wildflowers Goat closeups Goats with Portola Rd in background Goats with water, electric fence and ground afterward Videos Day 1 video – Apr-16-2026
ABSTRACT Dec-17-2012 A Comparison of Second Unit Strategies in Municipalities with Low Density Land Use Problem: The Town of Portola Valley is located just west of Stanford University and is considering efforts to meet its affordable housing requirements. As a town of low density land use with largely one single…
First with my family, and now as empty nesters, my buddy and I take a lot of pride in our Halloween pumpkin carving. Over the past decade, I have amassed pumpkin stencils from websites, magazines, pumpkin carving kits, and Halloween books, as well as a bunch of tools. Below is…
Surgeon Atul Gawande has written a book “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,” and from which he wrote an opinion piece for the The New York Times on Oct-5-2014. http://nyti.ms/1n6EHLS This essay describes one thing he learned from a patient/friend’s end of life: strive for the best…
WordPress is not easy. If you came to this page because you’ve struggled a bit with WordPress (WP), don’t feel badly. Even though I used to be a software engineer and project manager at Hewlett Packard, it took me 2 weeks to develop my first WP site: SoccerMovieMom.com. That is…
In Spring-2011, I injured my back while doing yardwork. But in retrospect, I had pre-conditioned my back to fail. For 10 months, after my 90-yo mother broke her hip, I drove from the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles every week. I tried to drive down Hwy 5 as…
According to the American Diabetes Association, once you become prediabetic, the odds are that you will develop diabetes within 10 years. Why is that important to aging in place? Because diabetes and heart disease both affect your blood vessels and increase your risk for dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. According to…
In 2012, at age 60, I was told I was prediabetic. I had suffered a failed knee surgery, which lead to 2 years of rehab and modest activity. The reduced activity was harming me further, because the odds are that my prediabetes will turn to diabetes within 10 years. Despite…
I purchased 6 vintage Knoll Saarinen tulip chairs at an estate sale. I did not want the metal base of the tulip chairs to scratch my hardwood floors. Four of the chair bases originally had embedded plastic rims which had mostly broken off, and Knoll no longer makes this plastic…
