Ukiah, California & Vicinity

"Haiku Spelled Backwards"

© Brooke Clarke 2000 - 2009

Photos below: Forest in the morning, Forest with Active D-Lighting, Ukiah night sky Milky Way, Green Laser Pointer 

Forest November Morning View from house This is what pattern 238 "Filtered Light" is about in the book A Pattern Language.

25 Jun 2009 Nikon D300 Active D-Lighting

Ukiah California 7 July 09   The cloud like stuff is the milk in the Milky Way About a 1 second exposure in Nikon D300. This is close to what you actually see, except your eye doesn't see the red.

Green Laser Pointer

The above is from Brooke's webcam

Aerial Photo

Business

SEEM TO BE OUT OF BUSINESS Aug 2009	Front Door GotFruit.com Ukiah, California
	18 wheel trucks deliver to the left. Forklift takes gondola to this building or one of the other buildings. The empty gondola comes out on this track and an elevator like machine stacks them 5 high ready for a forklift to take to the empty storage yard.

California Western Railroad - Skunk Train - be sure to ask which engine you will be riding behind, not all trains use steam engines
Got Fruit - sells locally grown pears
Holiday Inn Express - Ukiah -
International Paper - Masonite Factory - Grinds up grungy logs and makes saw dust then forms saw dust into Masonite panels - closed 2001
InnEVations - Electric Vehicles
Irish Beach - has rental houses right on the coast, lots for sale, reservations highly recommended.
Jubilee Jumps - large outdoor rentals
Kirk Driving School -
Konoci Harbor - at Clear Lake has live music (tours)
Mendocino Hobbies -
The T Shirt People - Screen printing (T shirts) & Embroidery
Vichy Springs - just a few blocks from my house

Micro-Breweries

Anderson Valey Brewing Company - Boonville, Beer Links -
Mendocino Brewing Company - Ukiah, home of Red Tail Ale - no tours so far
North Coast Brewing Company - Fort Bragg,
Ukiah Brewing Company - Ukiah - my page showing the equipment

Microphor - microflush toilets (2 quart), Roadside Weed Sprayer
Motorsports of Ukiah - Honda products
North Coast Power - solar power stuff
PATCHEN Inc. - Weedseaker, only sprays green weeds, not the dirt
Real Goods

Alternative Energy is in Hopland, about 15 minutes South on 101.  As of 9/99 they are installing a 132 kW - 13,020 panel photovoltaic array - panels owned by Astro Power who is selling output to Green Mtn. Power on East Coast.  After 15 years Real Goods (who is leasing land to AP) will own panels - Real Goods sells a full spec 120 Watt version of the AP panel.  They also have wind generators, micro-hydro generators, efficient lights, etc.

Retech - Manufacturers an increator that can reduce toxic waste into a safe byproduct.  They hold about 17 Patents (search on assignee contains  Retech and Inventor Contains Ukiah).
Rouge et Noir - Camembert, Brie, Schloss - all soft cheeses
Sea Ranch Lodge -
Sonoma Cheese Factory - fine Teleme, Jack and Cheeder cheeses
Suzette M. Cook - digital photography
USS Water Sprots - dive shop
Ukiah Daily Journal -

Restaurants (within a day's drive)

Charcuterie - in Healsburg, good food
Harbor Village Restaurant, Four Embarcadero Center, SF (415) 781-8833 - extremely high quality Cantonese food
Madrona Manor - very fine dining & an Inn
St.Orres Inn & Dining Room - found on Hwy 1 using GPS navigator (actual location is 38:47:33 N 123:33:41 W, 95') "fine dining & lodging"

Saw Mills
International Paper - Masonite Factory - Grinds up grungy logs and makes saw dust then forms saw dust into Masonite panels - closed 2001
There are a number of other saw mills in Ukiah, more on them later.

Logging Trucks deliver logs to the mill
Lumber Trucks deliver the finished boards
Saw Dust-Wood Chip trucks deliver materials for other purposes like gardening

Tai Hei Shakuhachi - Japanese Bamboo Flutes by Monty H. Levenson
Ukiah Speedway - oval track
UPS- Cherry St., Ukiah, CA - Customer Counter - UPS has a Depot in Ukiah that serves ?Mendocino County?
Vichy Springs Resort & Mineral Springs -
Wineries

North Coast Wine & Visitor Center
Anderson Valley Winegrowers Association
Brutocao Cellars -
Claudia Springs -
Edmeades Vineyards - winemaker Van Williamson
Fetzer Vineyards -
Gabrielli Winery -
Goldeneye -
Greenwood Ridge Vineyards -
Handley Cellars -
Husch Vineyards -
Jeriko Estate Winery - Next door they are in the process of making a cave and pond for a new different winery
Lazy Creek Vineyards -
Martz Vineyards - winemaker Larry Martz
Mendo Net Listing of Wineries -
Navarro Vineyards -  winemakers Ted Bennett & Deborah Cahn
Pacific Star Winery -
Parducci -
Pepperwood Springs Vineyards - 2003 changed to EsterlinaVineyards
Roederer Estate -
Scharffenberger Cellars -

Other

Evden Enterprises - world class fully automated machine shop
Metal-FX - world class sheet metal shop
Motion Industries - (part of chain) - stocks bearings, O-rings, Devcon epoxy, etc.
Munnell & Sherrill - (part of chain) 9/2008 just found they carry Devcon epoxy, haven't been there yet
Railway Engineering - makes turnouts and track related items for model railways that both look good and work

Zoégas Swedish coffee -

Calendar

January

Prune grapes and pears

March

Prune pears
Gardenia sprouting new leaves, Blossoms soon

April

Gardenia bloom

August

pick pears
Redwood empire Fair 2^nd week of Aug

September

pick grapes
Third Saturday - "Early Iron Club" Hot Rod Show, either downtown or in the park: Photo1, Photo2, Photo3

Government

City of Ukiah - 15,000 Population, county seat for Mendocino county.
Sonoma County Library Internet Branch -
County Museum - Willits -
Mendocino County Public Service Directory - Community Home Pages -
Ukiah Area California Highway Patrol -
Caltrans - California Dept. of Transportation -
Mendocino - Fort Brag: Things to see & do
Mendocino Junior College -
Mendocino Transit Authority - bus schedules
Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens -
Point Arena Lighthouse and Museum -
Point Cabrillo Light Station -
Willits Chamber of Commerce -
Mendocino County Government - Planning & Building - Inland Zoning code -

Airport

The Ukiah Airport is a general aviation airport that is also a home for:

Federal Express Office - 1329 S State St, Ukiah CA 95482 -

Flies a single propeller freight plane on schedule to provide the same good service as they provide elsewhere

California Department of Forestry - CDF Aviation Management Program -

In a rural area where it could take a long time for a fire truck to drive to the site of a fire, it is very comforting to know that the air attack units can be there in a matter of minutes.

 Grumman S2  with radial engines, What a Sound  & www.OV-10 Bronco.net  
The S2 carries a mixture of water, red clay (for color), salt, and a sticky stuff like in napalm called Fire-Trol that comes in big cloth bags one bag to a pallett.  It is mixed with water then pumped to the planes.  You can see that the concrete below the planes has a red color.  That's the Fire-Trol red color.

CalStar - photo  Helicopter ambulance (Ukiah Photo - N623MB)

Sheriff's Helicopters

UKI - Ukiah Muni Airport - Air Nav information

Airport Communications

                       CTAF: 123.0
                     UNICOM: 123.0
                  WX AWOS-3: 134.750 MHz (707-462-7005)
WX AWOS-2 at 1O2 (16 nm SE): 118.35  MHz (707-262-0380)

     COMMUNICATIONS PROVIDED BY UKIAH RADIO ON FREQ 123.6 & 255.4. MHz
     APCH/DEP SERVICE PROVIDED BY OAKLAND ARTCC ON FREQS 127.8/353.5 MHz (UKIAH RCAG).

Nearby radio navigation aids

  VOR radial/distance                 VOR name   Freq        Var
  -------------------  -----------------------  ------       ---
  ENIr022/5.5                 MENDOCINO VORTAC  112.30 MHz   16E

  NDB name                    Hdg/Dist  Freq  Var  ID
  --------------------------  --------  ----  ---  -------------------
  LAMPSON                     282/16.7   217  16E  LOP  .-.. --- .--.
   I think Lampson is long gone, replaced by
  UKiah                                  371 kHz   UK    ..-   -.-

Yokayo Elementary School - Airport web page -

Ukiah Prop Busters

This is an airport for Model Airplanes, it's just South of Ukiah surrounded by vinyards.

Accident
NTSB Acd #      Date                 Location      Regi          Make   Model              Severity
LAX04FA093   Apr 04, 2004   Ukiah, CA   N4130D   Piper   PA-32R-301T   Fatal

Radio & Televison Stations

KUKI  1400 AM - Station Data - tower near N. State St. & CA101
KOZT 95.3 & 95.9 FM - Mendocino has a lot of rock musicians, great programming, on the coast in Fort Bragg
K-wine 94.5 FM - Adult Contemporary
KZYX 90.7 FM & KZYZ 91.5 FM - PBS with a great variety of programing
KMFB - 92.7 coast 96.7 Ukiah valley - oldies
KMKX - 93.5 classic and new rock

Radio Frequencies -

CHP -
California municipal radio frequencies by Michael Sattler -
CDF Frequency List -
California - Ukiah Scanner Frequencies - note 10,525 & 24,150 MHz are police radar frequencies

Location_

Mendocino County - Geographic Information -
around my House -  Deer, Turkeys, Chicks, Rabbits, Squirrels (they bark), Quail (they click), Dove, Bear (they get into the garbage), Rattle snake, brightly colored millipead, Raccoons and all kinds of birds, Buzzards, Old Oak Root Fungus, New Oak Root Fungus (Or is it something else? brooke@pacific.net) Bats.
4 Dec 2006 - Tried using an ultrasonic converter to listen for bats at dusk (5:30 pm) but did not hear any.  They are not active when it's cold, but in the summer they are.

Animals & Plants

Opossum	Cone shaped head with white on both sides and a tail that's curled down in a vertical plane.  Walks slowly. Just under 3 feet long. Didelphis marsupialis---the Virginia opossum.  It's a long way from home.
Snake head at left.	When I took photo saw body, but not head.
Orchid	When indoor plants like Gardenias or Orchids are placed by the master bath window that faces south east they get morning sun and do well.  Photo on left is of a Red Dove orchid in bloom for the second time. June 2007 same orchid has two flower stalks this year.
	Experiment stacking two images to improve focus using CS4
Violet Wild Flower	Growing wild outside back door intermixed with California Poppies.
	White Water Lily Lotus Flower at forest end of tub
	Red Water Lily Lotus Flower at house end of tub

7 May 2008 a couple of bucks that are borthers and less than one year old
	Maybe around December a deer was found dead behind my garage.  No sign of injury or other cause of death.  It was moved about 10 feet away and although the outside temperature was near freezing some turkey vultures had a meal or two. Then the carcass disappeared.
	1 May for the first time since winter I was walking on the gravel covered path around my house and there were most of the deer bones, all white and clean.  I think they are so well preserved because of being on the gravel.  In cases where they are in the dirt they tend to vanish. I'm 99% sure a bear dragged the carcass and then eat what meat there was.  Later maggots cleaned the bones.
	Buck at Salt Lick
	Turkey Vulture in Tree

Wasp Nest 30 May 2008
Wasp Nest Under Construction	Last Year's now empty Wasp Nest

They make new nests in the spring when water, mud and plant material is available.  They do not reuse last year's nest.
These are under the second story eves, a location very hard to get to be any predator.

Ants

When confronted with indoor ants I tried Raid Double Control baits, but the ants seemed to recognize them and stay away, not one ant had gone inside after many hours.  You can see the active area has not one ant in photo at left although there are at least 16 ants in the photo.  Using the ant identification guide at U.C. Davis showed that these were Odorous House Ants and that I needed either Fipronol or Hydramethylnon baits.  After trying 4 local stores Combat Source Kill was found with Hydramethylnon.  Ants gone in a couple of days.  Combat Source Kill  is made under U.S. patent 4563836 which covers the design of the bait, not the chemical used.


 Once you know what type of ant you have THEN lookup which bait has the needed active ingredient using
Table 2 lists common names and what active ingredient they have.
Within a few days the ant population was noticeably lower and after about a week there were no ants to be seen in the house.

Orginazations

Grace Hudson Museum -
NAS - Peregrine Audubon Chapter - Local Bird Sightings -
Mendocino Environmental Center - Mendocino County Environmental Groups -
Mendocino Lost and Found - Mendocino County's Metal Detecting Club

Astronomy

Many years ago there was a government Lattitude observatory here in Ukiah on Observatory road.  It was one of a handful of observatories characterizing the wobble of the Earth.  It had a mederian telescope and the elevation angle of stars was measured at the precise time that they crossed the meridian.  The night sky here is still awesome.

Ukiah Astronomical Society -Yahoo U-A-S listserver web page: stars-r-us.com
Taylor Planetarium and Observatory - Lake County

Internet Providers

Pacific Internet - This is where my web pages are hosted   - www.ukiah.com
Mendonet -
Mendocino Community Network - Directory -
JPS net -
MendoLake Online - web services & local links

Health Care -

Ukiah Valley Medical Center -

Tractors

Bobcat - skid-steer loaders - small sizes don't accept many accesories
Kubota - they own the small tractor market - Lampson Tractor, North Bay Tractor

B7300 - 16 HP - 12.5 HP@PTO - Bush Hog:  662H backhoe, 1846QT loader, PHD2101 Post Hose Digger,  RTS series of rotary tillers
B2100 - 21 HP
B2400 - 24 HP

Bush Hog - Makes front loaders, back hoe, tiller, post hole digger, etc. attachments
Rainbow Ag on Perkins st - John Deere tractors -
John Deere - Gator -
Kawasaki - Mule -
AGCO -used to  make Allis Chalmers - I had a B12 (12 hp) with front loader & tiller

Single Axle Tractor

These are also known by many other names.
In Taiwan you see these on the side of the road with a large trailer filled with agricultural products.  I'm sure that in the field other attachments are used.
UN - Single axle Tractors -
Two-wheel tractor (Wiki)
They are much more maneuverable than a four wheel tractor.

Makers

BCS - America - claim to be the largest single axle maker in Europe (in Italy since 1940) 5.5 to 13 HP models
DONGFENG - Power Tiller/Two-wheel Tractor -
Gravely - Rapid series 9 to 20 HP
Kamco - 3.5 HP and lower
Siam Kubota - userhostile web pages
VST Tillers - 8 to 13 HP tillers

Chain Saw

When you live in a forest a chain saw is one of the common tools.  SAFETY is very important!

Aug 2009 - need chain saw (my old McCullough was given away some years ago) since there are now more dead trees both still standing and laying on the ground.  The trees are mostly under 8" diameter so a chain saw that's gas powered, light and with a short bar would be much easier to use than a big lumber jack type.  After a lot of searching I found the Echo CS-330T. It came with a small bottle of 2-stroke oil (enough to make 1 gallon), a bunch of manuals, a combination tool, and an anti-kick-back tip.  In addition I bought a 2 gallon gas container, spare chain, 5/32" chain file, chain oil.  When the chain gets dull I'll swap chains and sharpen the dull one. In the photo the chain is too loose.  The anti-kick-back bar tip has not been installed for a few reasons: (1) it prevents plunge cuts and (2) with a blade this short the actual remaining cutting length is very short, (3) may lead to jamming (not chain but tip and saw body). Note: it takes some force pulling back on the red chain lock to free the chain but only a slight forward force to lock the chain. Note: The grease guns for lubing the chain wheel at the tip of the bar could not be found after searching a number of the local stores that sell chain saws and the manual does no mention a need to grease the wheel, so I'm hoping it will be OK without grease.

This is a 17 1/4" x 11 1/4" x 6 inch box modified to hold the chain saw and all it's related accessories except for the gas. The box is a size that happens to fit well on the storage shelving I use.  By using a box this size much more can be stored on the same set of shelves.

 Starting Tip

After sitting for over a year my McCullough chain saw would not start.  Removing the spark plug showed small water drops.  The fix was to use canned air and blow dry the plug and also the cylinder.  After that a few pulls on the starting cord with the plug out to clear out the cylinder and it started on the first pull after the plug was installed.

Dirt

If the chain touches dirt is will dull.  This applies even when stopped, i.e. the oil will hold the dirt and at the next cut the dirt will dull the blade.  If a running blade touches dirt it will instantly become dull.

Gravel

The there is an inlet off of the Russian River where soil setteles out.  In the past they used an excavator to remove the dirt so that it could be trucked away, now they have a tower machine with an engine at it's base.

Self Propelled String Trimmers

Bear Cat - 73350, 73265 & 73455 have 3 speeds forward
Troy Bilt - manual push only

Taiwan

Weather

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