How better to spend a rainy, West Coast week-end than by sitting in the middle of a dream-like cob house, in front of an open firebox, reading a hand-drawn book (considerately left by the hosts) on how to build them, by hand? When a question arose, I would just look up, peer under, touch a surface, and notice such creative material responses! Thank you Manny and Alexis for keeping the Cobb Cottage so beautifully, and for letting visitors experience its sense of curvy possibilities and timelessness.