Lost Coast, Part II

Pancakes with peaches in a brandy sauce, plum sauce, and bacon on the side. Delicious breakfast. Spent most of the late morning and miday driving around the hills of Willits, culminating in a tour of the construction project Kris has been working on. An ancient and somewhat sprawling house up in a redwood grove, knocked together from several smaller houses that were moved to the site years and years ago. They're in the process of renovating and improving it -- stripping rooms down and refinishing them. An interesting note about these old houses, instead of being constructed as modern houses are with lumber braces for support and drywall cladding the interior side, they were built completely with redwood planks at a 45 degree angle. The planks made up the whole of the wall, and newspaper was used to keep the wind from blowing through the cracks. Kris had ran across some very old newspaper in the process of stripping it down, but unfortunantly couldn't find dates on 'em.