Three Kitty Konstruction

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Three Kitty Konstruction
La Honda, CA

Latest revision, December, 2003

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Hi there. I'm Blackie.

I'm the self-appointed security guard of the Three Kitty Kompany. (For more about Blackie, click on her picture.)

If you arrived here by way of our Home Page, you know that the Three Kitty Kompany is a mythical holding company with subsidiaries: Three Kitty Kreations, Three Kitty Rail, Three Kitty Photo, Three Kitty Komputing, Three Kitty Konstruction and Jan's Travel-Rama. All are imaginary companies assigned to my foster-Mom and foster-Dad's various retirement activities. You also know that my foster-parents are Jan (a retired chemist) and Jack (a retired computer scientist). If you want more information about the Three Kitty Kompany, please click here.

If you want to go to the Kompany Home Page, please click here.

Although Jack and Jan have put together the Three Kitty Kompany and its website as a venue for Jack's photos and a light-hearted account of their adventures, we kitties, and the stories we tell are very real. Since Wookie and Yoda are busy right now with other parts of the website, and because Frosty has travelled to the Heavyside Layer to await the Jellicle Ball, I was asked to narrate the stories that arise from the construction of their new home.

Three Kitty Konstruction was formed late in April, 2000 when Jack and Jan travelled to Gualala, CA - a small town on the Pacific coast of southern Mendocino County. Gualala is about 160 miles north of La Honda, where the Three Kitty Kompany is now located. En route, they encountered a Bald Eagle roosting in a tree (Wookie and Yoda would have been afraid. I, however, am afraid of nothing.), a beautiful sunset, some spectacular coastal scenery and some very scary sea cliffs. (Even security guard-type kitties have their limits of courage, though.) While in Gualala, they met with a wonderful realtor who spent two days showing them homes, land with house sites and even some unimproved real estate that Davy Crockett would have loved. (Jack and Jan are pleased to recommend their realtor. Please Email: Wookie@3kitty.org for more information.)

Among the properties Jack and Jan saw was a 20 acre parcel located between Walker Gulch and Hearn Gulch. It is on a county road named Iversen Road. Since maintaining a private or shared road wasn't in the business plan for the Three Kitty Kompany, a location on a county road was perfect.

(Please click on the map for an enlarged view.)

About 10 acres of the property is an "old growth rhodendron forest". There Jan and Jack found rhodendron plants (R. macrophyllum) that were in full bloom, with pink, orange and white flowers everywhere.

(If you click on any picture, you can see an enlarged view.)

Under the rhodendrons, are high-bush and low-bush huckleberry plants that, in late summer, produced more berries than Jan and Jack have ever seen. There are also several varieties of Manzanita, Salal , Labrador Tea , Chinquapin and Coast Live Oak. About 5 acres of the property are a mixed forest of Bishop Pine and Coast Redwood.

A meadow at the bottom of the property makes up the last 5 acres. Upon seeing the meadow, Jan fell in love. So they bought the property.

Now the real work began, investigating the land itself, investigating the regulations of Mendocino County and the California Coastal Commission. (Did I mention that the property is only a mile from the ocean?), clearing the trees and brush and designing and building the house, the gardens, the barn and the garage.

From here, I'm going to take a little break. You can join me while I talk about the land, the regulatory process and the actual construction. Hope to see you there.

All puns aside, the Three Kitty Konstruction Website is still under construction (and probably will be for many months. Please check back periodically. To help our return guests, we'll put the date of the last revision at the beginning of the page.

Editor's Note: The Board of Directors of the Three Kitty Kompany is pleased to announce the appointment of Blackie to a seat on the Board. Her courage in the face of invaders such as Joe, Eddie and Louis (the racoons) and Mathilda (the skunk) and her loyalty, love and affection have won her a spot both on the Board and in our hearts.

If you want to comment on our Website, please feel free to contact us at: Wookie@3Kitty.org

Additional Three Kitty Kompany Websites can be found at Jan's TravelRama (3kitty.org/travelrama) - describing Jack and Jan's travel adventures, and Three Kitty Kompany (3kitty.org) - the story of Jack and Jan's retirement activities.