Icy cold and windy, 2000 is a terribly painful year, everything has become strained.  The Landlord pulls a weird left turn in our illegal rental agreement, precipitating a fight and a hearing with the Rent Board. Steve’s drinking and smoking overwhelm me with despair and back pain.  I am confused and feeling unsupported, incapacitated with vomiting migraines.  I take classes in Tai Chi, and “Manifesting”, struggling to save money to buy a house.  The Ravines/Hoddymandodd play the Stork Club, and Voulez-Vous.Mt.-D-cloudy-tree  It rains and rains and rains all February.

2/28 Steve and I take a drive to hike the Marin Headlands.

March 11-13, we travel to Stillwater Cove, via Monte Rio, and dinner at Jerry’s  (vw mileage 91884)

At the March Party at John Giuliani’s, I played three songs, my usual–then played along as everyone jammed.  John Havard complimented me on my intuitive playing, how I hear subtleties and sing so beautifully!  The old guy from across the street asked where’d you learn to play like that?  I am playing so beautifully I get a compliment from Philip Rosheger!  He and Steve are deep in conversation for “a couple of hours” discussing missing time and ufos.

April, Sara comes for a book signing at the Starry Plough, and speaks at the Women’s Center.  Dick and Vicki visit for my birthday, and we take them to Bolinas, and dinner and brews at the Olema Farmhouse.

May, a new painting–Diaz Lake!  Acrylic on canvas panel.diaz lake

May 28  Meadow Muffin of the Excellent INCHES/Cavepainters Recording.  2 rolls of film, one of mine, one of Steve’s.  Sketch journal of travel photos.  Then, rolls of film, camping, somewhere, knobs, and lakes  .  .  .  Little Hot Creek, in The big white truck. So many photos missing  .  .  actual film prints  .  .  . could be several pages of travels  .  .  ?Little-Hot-Moonrse-sketch

June 1, into Nevada: Spencer’s, Diana’s Punch Bowl, Pott’s Ranch, Warm Springs Pool, Crystal Springs, Goblin Knobs, Lake Pahranagat- so sketchy.

I am struggling with back pain and migraine, I go to several practitioners and practice chi gong and yoga through the fall, but it’s all about having the rug pulled out from under me again, just as I was feeling like I had a solid footing.

For Steve’s birthday we take a trip to camp in Mendocino National Forest and Lake “Pilby” (Pillsbury), on the Eel River.

For Labor Day, we drive to Tomales Bay.  September 23-25 we meet Jean and Jerry at Usal Creek (site #11)

Another band, Long Term Effects, comes and thankfully, goes.

A couple of weekends are spent driving to Santa Rosa and Sacramento shopping for a new work truck, and October 23 I buy a 1995 Tacoma with a camper shell, $7215.45.   On November 16, I am a making a left turn off Shattuck and am T-boned by a white pizza delivery truck–technically totaling my new ride, except the structural damage isn’t discovered until halfway through the repair.   Mazda is deemed unrepairable, and sent off to charity.

Thanksgiving in Bolinas, house-sitting, Christmas in Palmdale, and on December 30, the Cavepainters play the Starry Plough.