Relaxing After Work
A technician told me the other day that he didn’t mind driving home 35 minutes from work. When he had lived 2 minutes from work, he always took a drive out into the country to relax before he went...
View ArticlePacking Table Grapes
My friend’s son went off to college in Louisiana. His sophomore English teacher asked the class what product comes from sheep.“Cotton?” his fellow student answered. At least he didn’t answer grapes....
View ArticleUnder the Grapevine
Grapevine is a place, a town at the southern tip of the San Joaquin Valley. I learned when I first moved here that when you start to cross over Tejon Pass you say, “I’m crossing over the Grapevine.”...
View ArticleWalnuts Change Clothes for the Winter
I hated walnuts until I moved to Tulare County. We couldn’t have been relocated into a better place than when my first husband and I moved here August 1, 1985, a month prior to the beginning of walnut...
View ArticleThe Accidental Vacation: Chapter Eight
Chapter Eight The Gem of the Klamath River “A new transmission is not so bad,” Vince said, still nervous about Marsha’s reaction to the news. “It could have been so much worse. Just think if we’d...
View ArticleSunday Post: Nature
Is nature natural or just outside? Are objects of nature found inside a building still considered nature? Jake always makes me think! The nature we have here in the California Central Valley is...
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