Notices by Kathleen Jones 🚲 🐋 🖌️⚾️ (kleen@sfba.social)

@kingrat Text is fine too. The idea is to keep it simple. Whatever it takes, amirite?

@kingrat I learned something last year from someone who learned it from someone else, so I’m spreading it around too: do a More/Less chart. Less guilt-inducing. For me, that means more hiking, more cooking new recipes, more time with friends. Less doomscrolling, less sitting. Draw little icons/images instead of text. It’s just for you so it doesn’t matter if it’s stick figures or scratches - as long as it makes sense to you. This year’s has been up on the fridge all along, and I actually did pretty well.
#2025 #MoreLess

@skinnylatte A clarification on the purple urchins: we want to remove them from areas where they are decimating the kelp beds because the starfish (one of their predators) are diminished, but in other areas they are fine. One example is Pillar Point tidepools in Half Moon Bay. There’s no kelp right there. Yet people think they need to pick off the nasty purple urchins. Yes, the urchins can be harvested (with a state fishing license) but they don’t need to be eradicated.

@skinnylatte I’m in love myself. I’m surprised I got a Tern. Was really sold on a Gazelle. But then I thought about being able to put my feet down at stops and kept looking. Got it at Avenue Cyclery, where I once bought a bike about 40 years ago.

New bike day! Tern NBD, which I guess means No Big Deal (it is though), but it also means New Bike Day. Ta-daaa!
I was debating names: Ternip, My Tern, Seagull, Albatross, etc. But I think I’ll go with Sooty Shearwater, since she’s a nice sooty color.
@kimu and @bikemonterey, thanks for your input.
#BikeTooter #ebike

Ummm … it’s November.
#ClimateDiary https://m.ai6yr.org/@nicc_outlook_bot/113414210493474118

@CloudyMrs Oh definitely block us if you can, especially for the next six weeks and, depending on the election, beyond. No offense taken.

A ride today from Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz to Capitola. Sunny, nice by the water but hot anywhere else, just a beautiful day for a ride.

The lineup at Pleasure Point, some cormorants perched in a tree, and a bored bull in Arana Gulch Open Space Park (nice bike path through there), and the Capitola Beach.

#bikeTooter #RecumbentTrike #SantaCruz

@IanDSmith A beach is different every day. Just amazing.

Sheesh, let’s talk about #tides and sand transport on beaches. Here are two photos taken 22 hours apart, yesterday and today, from the same spot, where Frenchman’s Creek and Pilarcitos Creek meet up to bust through to #HalfMoonBay.

@haayman This was just normal tidal action. That the creeks are running out through the dunes is due to our winter weather, which is when we get rain.

For Your Consideration:

Nominee for Ugliest Wallpaper Hall of Fame.

The Barn’s restroom, #HalfMoonBay. Today I was unable to ignore it as usual.

#Wallpaper #HallOfFame #ugly #squirrelsofmastodon #squirrel