Judy Stromberg:  

Life My beloved partner, Jennifer, and I have been together for nearly 20 wonderful years. We moved to Humboldt County in 2001 and truly love it here among the redwoods on the North Coast. I am on permanent disability for fibromyalgia and degenerative disc/joint disease. Jennifer works full-time as the Lifestyle editor for the local daily newspaper. Birding became a hobby when we first moved to the Sonoma County countryside. We are loving learning about shore birds here on the North Coast and have a particular passion for pelicans. It's fun to watch them suddenly nosedive into the water to catch their dinner. Our volunteer activities have been with wildlife rehab organizations -- we are very fond of raccoons in particular. While living in a country setting in Sonoma County, we offered the use of our old, empty chicken coop as a "half-way house" for releasing rehabed raccoons back into the wild. One very young raccoon, Luna, had been found abandoned by her mama and was raised by humans. She was a sweet little creature with absolutely no guile. She lived with us for a month before we released her from the coop. As we had hoped, she teamed up with Rounder, a mellow older mama raccoon that was part of the wild group of moochers (raccoons, opossums...Expand for more