 Jeff Gould, and that's my canary story. Make your canaries memory this summer at the Birdcage. Tickets.sfcanaries.com Sometimes in the morning, I sit in my dining room at Washington Crossing. The sun is low, so it still has that red gold feeling as it streams in and warms my face. My coffee tastes especially good. If it's winter, the warm floor toasts my feet while I read the morning paper. This is exactly how I thought it would be.