Chalk art has been a part of the Stetson/Fierston household for many years, ever since our first remodel when we got a large, green chalkboard that the girl's elementary school, Chabot Elementary, was going to throw out. This was installed in our kitchen and has become the welcome sign for parties, visitors or holidays.

My mother was a woman of two worlds, two cultures – Mexico and California. In that spirit my eulogy will also be in two parts

With winter rains descending on Nor Cal, it is time to bust out with two of my favorite winter stews, Clam Chowder and Boeuf Bourginon. Both provide step-by-step instructions to make the sauces on opposite ends of the sauce spectrum. Check them out at Clam Chowder and Boeuf Bourginon.

Two new recipes grace the Metadogs site: one for salsa verde and another for strawberry compote. Both provide step-by-step instructions to make the sauces on opposite ends of the sauce spectrum. Check them out at Salsa Verde and Strawberry Compote.

Craig Kane and the Metadogs collective have relaunched CraigKaneArt on the new Metadogs code base. The site is now responsive (desktop, tablets and phone), has a lovely new design and will allow Craig to much more easily update his site. Go to CraigKaneArt.

The Metadogs redesign was an important update for ye olde website -- it refreshed the code, modernized the interaction, cleaned out a giant amount of cruft and beautified the whole experience.

The Metadogs site has been transformed once again. This time around it has been modernized using modern technology innovations like SASS, hammer, HTML5 and CSS3 to create a responsive and touch enabled site. The system has also been revamped in the java and database code to make it cleaner and to better support the needs of the system.

Brenda and Stan passed away in March and I had the honor of doing the eulogy at the funeral. You can read it here.