Pura Vida Brings The Afro-Carribean Beat To The Coast

Again, everyone has a second job up here in Mendocino. Margi, a long-time innkeeper here at Brewery Gulch, has a band with her husband, Jorge. Pura Vida is extremely popular in Mendocino county. Their pan-latin repertoire includes rumba, mambo, chachacha, samba and cumba. Pura Vida was recently featured at the Anderson Valley Pinot Festival. You can listen to clips from their latest CD here.

The Thoughtfulness of Guests

We have a couple that has stayed with us for the past three years. They always come in May, they are from Staffordshire and they are just the nicest people. Somehow, maybe through my blog, or maybe through Facebook, they heard that Sarah and I are expecting. They brought this little music box all the way from England! This is why I wanted to be an innkeeper...for the relationships you develop with guests over the years. Thank you, Ken and Barbara.

Friends Helping Friends

The Ritz, an old squatters cabin perched above the Big River in Comptche

The view of the Big River from the cabin

Unloading the wall that Barry built

As handy as I get

Moving the wall into place

Bolted down and ready for action

Barry is a very handy guy. He has a little cabin in the woods that he has gradually rebuilt from it's very run down state when he aquired it. His latest project was to create a mudroom. He built the new exterior wall at his house out here on the coast and recruited a few friends to help him with the wall raising (and of course, subsequent barbecue).

Creatures of the Gulch

I love the collection of creatures that make their homes here at the inn. Caputured in just one day here on the grounds of Brewery Gulch, photographer John Bernal shot these pictures of just a few of our many friends.



Two of our many mule deer that frequent our meadow in the mornings and the evenings.



A California quail in the brush off the back deck.




An Acorn Woodpecker that finally chased the squirrel off of one of the feeders.



A Scrub Jay waiting for his turn at the feeder.

Stellar Jay, the bully of the neighborhood.

 

One of the turkeys looking for reception. They really are kind of dumb.