On Valentine’s Day my husband, John, sister Vicki and hubby Tom and son Jack and girlfriend Morgan all went for a train ride! Jack and I had found a special Valentine’s Day Romantic Train Trip through the Niles Canyon. We all met in Sunol, just south of Pleasanton. The old fashioned train had one club car set up as an old fashioned bar from the 40’s, complete with music. During our two hour ride we sampled wine and cheeses from the Livermore Valley. They did a great job choosing both the wine and cheeses. All the help were volunteers who had worked on restoring the train. It was a very relaxing ride with beautiful scenery. They will have rides every weekend in August. Check them out and take a ride, I recommend it.
When My son, Jack, was at Penn State, he and some friends went to see the ground hog , Punxsutawney Phil, on Feb 2. That doesn’t sound like much until you find out that it is an all night party in the freezing cold, waiting until 6 in the morning or so to see if the ground hog sees his shadow. It is Pennsylvania after all, what chance does the poor thing have of seeing anything but his shadow on Feb 2? I wouldn’t venture out in the that freezing cold weather either. Hope you enjoyed the weather in warmer ( but not much ) in Northern Calif today. Looks like we are in for six more weeks of winter too and we need it. Feb 2, 2010 was the 90th birthday celebration of my mother’s childhood friend, Happy 90th Birthday, Auntie H!
I know that these are hard times for many of us. Some of us have lost loved ones this year, a job or possibly a house. One thing I learned along time along is that no matter how bad things my seem I can always find someone I would never want to trade places with. That seems to put things into perspective for me.
I hope your holiday is a happy one full of hope and love. My best to you and yours.
Sorry this is a little late, my internet was down yesterday but I think the message gets through. Now, on to the rest of the holiday season!
At long last the new Winters Library will open its doors for everyone to see and enjoy on Saturday, November 14, 2009! I got to go to a “pre party” a few weeks ago. I was so impressed with how large the space is and what nice large windows it has to let in lots of natural light. There is a conference room, a children’s book room and several quite places to relax and read throughout the building. We are so lucky so many people have worked on this project and have not given up over the years inspite of several setbacks. We will all reap the benefits. Right now they have a campaign to “stock the shelves”. The library is collecting money to buy new books for the library. What a very worthy cause. Hope to see see you there. Happy reading. Thank you Margaret Parsons for helping make this happen.
Tonight is the big game for Winters High School and this afternoon the parade and ralley were right downtown at the intersection of Main and First Street. i have attached some photos of the floats for youall to see. Boy have thing changed since we were in high school! No more floats rooting on your team and telling them to crush the opposition, gather that isn’t PC anymore. SO check out the floats, tehy are very internation. I have no idea who came up with the but they were cute and creative, I will give them that. GO WARRIORS!
Tuesday night I came home and turned on the news and found out about the tsunami in Samoa and that there was a tsunami watch for the entire coast of California! Yes, all those images came back of the tsunami that hit Indonesia back around New Year’s a few years ago. So, I immediately called my son, Jack, who lives in Monterey a few blocks from the ocean. He and his buds had already been down to the beach to check out the wave action. Had to tell him the activity wasn’t going to get much bigger until 9PM. Then at 10:45pm that night the phone rang. No one calls me at that hour except my daughter, Devon! She goes to school at Sierra Nevada College at Incline, NV. She and her friends were at school working on a paper and it had started snowing! Can you imagine, Sept 29 and the first snow. She was very excited. So that is what is happening on the east and west coast of California at the end of September. Now we are on to October, happy first of the month!
It is Friday and after a busy day taking care of a home inspection and showing rental properties we are off to relax at Lake Berryessa. Last week we went up there after work and had a delightful evening. So, we decided to do a repeat! This is just one of the many advantages of living in our small community. Living by the lake provides a quick, easy get away. Last weekend we even saw an otter busy at work catch
ing and eating a fish. That was fascinating as well as our usual family of deer. Here are some pictures of the sunset last Friday.
Last Friday we went up to Lake Berryessa so our son, Chad, could wake board and to take our AFS student, Rita, from Italy, class of 1980, for dinner. It was very hot and a night on the lake sounded relaxing. When we got up there we discovered there was a fire and the fire fighters were out in force. Attached, are pictures of the helicopters fighting the fire. They are coming into the cove to get water to dump on the fire. It was an awesome sight!
Tyler and his prized turkey
It was an exciting time in the auction arena yesterday at the Yolo County Fair. The Winters FFA was well represented. Many of the Grand Champion or Reserve Champion animals belonged to Winters FFA members and of course, my nephew, Tyler was there with his Grand Champion turkey. Prices were sure down this year, I think the Grand Champion steer only got $2.75 a pound. Too bad for the kids who put so much time and effort into their projects but a really lesson that there is no guarantee of any profit when it comes to making a living in agriculture, or any small business for that matter. Kudos to all the kids and their families for being there and supporting them. There is a lot of hard work that goes on behind the scenes to make this a successful event.
My nephew, Tyler Tufts, had the Grand Champion turkey at the Yolo County Fair yesterday! He is a member of the Winters High School FFA club. He is the first member to ever raise turkeys and he is the first Grand Champion winner. Needless to say, we are all very proud of him. No, they are not wild turkeys, they are domestic, plain old white, Thanksgiving turkeys. He could only enter one but raised 5. If you want to buy one and support the FFA and write off your Thanksgiving dinner give me a call. The auction is Saturday afternoon in Woodland at the Fair Grounds if you are looking for something to do.
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