The Sea Ranch Listserv Summary: April 24th – May 4th, 2024

Condominium One at The Sea Ranch, 1967 (according to a recent Wall Street Journal article in their Luxury Real Estate and Homes section)

Several people received their 2024 board of directors election ballots, which are different from last year’s ballots. One member said the new ballots are yellow, and another described them as “dark yellow.” One candidate’s second statement was not included in the ballot packet, and another candidate’s second statement took up more pages than those of other candidates–although the word count was the same because they used longer words.

Members on the Listserv took exception to a Wall Street Journal article that misidentified the middle-aged, professional founders of The Sea Ranch as “hippies,” even if it was a Wall Street Journal article, after all.

Sea Ranchers were shocked by the vast number of beached, dead Velella velella.

A longtime resident of The Sea Ranch informed the Listserv that they decided to retire in San Sebastián. Another Sea Rancher, planning to vacation in San Sebastián this summer, wants to meet for a drink with the Sea Rancher who is moving, but is concerned that the mover’s email is an intricate scam because it was found in the vacationer’s Gmail junk folder. Later that day, another Sea Rancher sent a video showing actual malware on their computer.

Someone traveling to Petaluma in three weeks asked for brunch spot recommendations.

Progressive Listserv participants experienced a collective wave of mild disappointment when a large bear left a local RNC-chair-aspiring attorney’s (and anti-transgederist’s) trash untouched.

Nearly a dozen Sea Ranchers decided to share their thoughts on the Hamas-Israel-Gaza conflict, college student demonstrations, and police brutality on the Listserv. Some members claimed that thuggery was occurring among these actors. If only we could agree on who the thugs are, we could probably fix the situation.

The entirety of one Sea Rancher’s poetry group moved away or died.