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Vegan cake?

 

Yep - we worked together on a vegan carrot cake with icing.  Probably have it in about a half hour.

Happy birthday, John.

What a contrast to last year!

That is anywhere from Marin to SLO for Joe.

The man needs to buy a car, you know, you sit in it, press a pedal and bam, you are moving.

Happy birthday old man!!

Vegan cake?

 

Today is JC's bday - normally we would celebrate by going to Pinns, but between House Arrest and the rain, we are home.  Hopefully next year we can celebrate it in style.

Nope some jackass came and picked it up.

I have a nice Miyata that needs some loving.

Do you still have this? Looking for projects right now. Frame size?

Is that like an arm pit, centrally close, you can see, but a pain to get to?

 The Granite Quarry was operated by hand labor early on and the workers probably smelled pretty ripe at times.

A small granite quarry on Judge Logan's ranch east of Watsonville, had been supplying rock for construction of the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) for several years before it was acquired by Porter's bank in 1899.[2] SP named the quarry spur at railroad milepost 93.2 Logan, after the ranch owner. The quarry on the San Andreas Fault minimized drilling and blasting costs by mining rock broken by fault movement. Smaller particles of construction aggregate were obtained close to the fault, and coarser material was more distant from the fault trace. Porter and Wilson saw its possibilities, found some additional investors, and started up the business with Wilson as Superintendent. In the beginning, quarry operations were tough; fifteen men used sledgehammers, picks, shovels and wheelbarrows to break and load broken rock onto horse-drawn wagons for the trip to the railroad line. Relief came in 1903 when the quarry was automated with Corliss steam engine-powered McCully crusher No.3. It produced 20 tons of 2½-inch rock per hour. Crushing capacity was increased by 35 tons per hour in 1904 by crusher No.5 powered by an oil-fired Atlas tandem compound steam engine.[3] Rock was transported from the quarry face to the crushing plant in horse-drawn, side-dump rail cars, which were loaded manually. There were about 24 men working at the quarry.[4]

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake flattened the new steam crushing plant and temporarily halted operations. Rail operations were disrupted, and the quarry operation was devastated. The earthquake's destruction created a demand for construction. In the following years, Granite Rock Company supplied materials for a number of buildings in San Francisco and around the Monterey Bay area. Among those still standing are the old Gilroy City Hall and the old San Francisco Wells Fargo Building. At the quarry in Aromas, California, expansion was taking place.

My rule of thumb for now is if you can't walk or bicycle there - you shouldn't go.

 That is anywhere from Marin to SLO for Joe.

4 counties meet near or at Aromas.

Is that like an arm pit, centrally close, you can see, but a pain to get to?