It is SNOWING in Strawberry, and all the way to Sugar Pine!! I measured 5 inches on the tops of the trash cans!! I wish that I had had my camera today - it looked like a Christmas Card with the snow clinging to the pine and cedar trees. My favorite is the way that it clings to the naked oak trees, outlining them against the grey skies.
Now if we can just convince some customers that DODGE RIDGE is open as is LELAND SNOW PLAY just up the road. Today was a sschool Holiday but not many vehicles on the road. Most of the teachers and aides must have used the day for shopping, if the number of cars in the parking lots at the shopping centers were any indication.
I am just NOT a shopper; I have a hard time even remembering to go and get things that I actually NEED - like a key made, some connectors for the new faucet, and a 60 inch hunk of fleece for a project!! I was spoiled by too many trips to May Company, J.C. Penny and "Monkey Wards" with my mother, the shop-a-holic. We never missed a Month End Sale, a white sale - sheets, blankets, rugs...can't buy ANYTHING unless it is "on sale." I did discover in traveling to other countries that I could "find" a SALE SIGN no matter what the language it was written in. ALL the practice when I was just a kid!!
The last time that I went shopping with my mother, she was in a wheel chair by then, she purchased another COOK BOOK and I asked what on earth she planned to do with ANOTHER cookbook, and her reply was, "Don't you worry, I will use it!" She did; it was my Christmas Present that year!! I still have it!
Monday, February 13, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
The Winter that WASN'T
You just can't trust Mother Nature! Last year and the year before were fantastic snow years; Dodge Ridge and the Snow Play Area were able to open for Thanksgiving Weekend and Halloween Weekend respectively!! This year - no snow until the end of January and just barely enough to open the two snow attractions that our guests come to use!! We are hoping AGAIN that the storm due this weekend will "open the storm door" and allow some moisture to come our way...it gets very boring having no one around to play in the snow!!
Of course last year we ran out of places to PUT THE SNOW, and this year it is SPRING already. The flowering quince in my garden in Sonora is blooming and the roses have had their Spring Trim. I got one TOO - no sense in keeping the hair long when you don't need it for warmth. The swimming pool still has snow in it, but with 50 degree days it won't be there for long...
The local water watchers are starting to get furrows in their brows, worrying about the summer following the winter that wasn't!! Meanwhile, we are all trying to keep upbeat attitudes amidst low occupancy numbers!!
We see work starting on the next section of the "SONORA BYPASS" east of the Standard Road light. So if you are coming this summer, you can take Tuolumne Road to the Black Oak Casino and avoid the work area - it is a bit of a "dog leg" through Tuolumne but Tuolumne Road NORTH intersects with 108 at Twain Harte and you are less than a half hour from US in beautiful, uncrowded (even in summer) Strawberry!! The Mi-Wuk Indians at the Casino can even use a contribution this year!
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