by Think In The Morning | Apr 10, 2016 | Sea Gull |
Remembering the Sea Gull Restaurant An Afternoon at the Kelley House July 24, 2011 Click on this link to see the video: VIDEO ...
by Think In The Morning | Apr 8, 2016 | Sea Gull |
In my early years at the Sea Gull there was a time when I lived upstairs in a converted liquor storage room. I hired Orval, the plumber, and Ed, the tile setter, to help convert one end of the small room into a bathroom with a shower. It was small, dark and it picked...
by Think In The Morning | Apr 4, 2016 | Sea Gull |
Today is World Rat Day. It’s a pity this holiday didn’t exist when I owned the Sea Gull. I’ll admit to holding certain prejudices against rats, but I’ve learned to keep them to myself since World Rat Day was established over a decade ago. Before rats got their day...
by Think In The Morning | Apr 3, 2016 | Sea Gull |
One fringe benefit of working in a restaurant is watching the famous people that sometimes arrive unannounced hoping for a bit of normalcy. In my first year at the Sea Gull, I was relaxing at the house next to the restaurant when I got an excited call from the...
by Think In The Morning | Mar 29, 2016 | Sea Gull |
I had a restaurant in Mendocino, along the edge of the northern California coast. I took that from Isak Dinesen’s first line in Out of Africa. I changed it a bit. I highly recommend you read every single one of her stories. Mendocino lies at the southern end of the...
by Think In The Morning | Mar 22, 2016 | Sea Gull |
“Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without Improvement are the roads of genius.” William Blake On Highway 128 just before the newly built Mountain House Estate, there is a crooked tree that stands near the point of...
