SUMMER is HERE!

WHEW~~!!  Summer is here!  It is supposed to be over 100 with gusty winds in SONORA this weekend!  Burning, even at night, is suspended due to the high temps and winds expected.  The Father's Day Fly-in at Columbia Airport could get blown away.  One of these days my husband is determined to buy a flight for each of the grandkids.  They were all four - only the younger four - in our car one day and we took a detour past the airport to show them where Grandpa used to fly in and out going to work in the Bay Area when their daddies were in school and Grandma was flipping eggs at the Strawberry Inn.  We could NOT believe that they had never seen an airplane land!!  They were thrilled to sit there and watch the planes land and take off.  As a former pilot, I can tell you that it is a thrilling thing to go from being a vehicle on the ground to a bird and back to being a vehicle on the ground!!

The pool, as well as Pinecrest Lake, should be very popular this weekend.  We have had several guests at the Resort complain about the NO PETS rule at the Lake, but like so many things the ill manners of a few tend to make life impossible for the many!!  We have found that MOST of our guests are very considerate if allowed to bring their pets on vacation.  The ones who aren't get a note next to their name for NEXT TIME they want to come.  It has only happened a couple of times in eighteen years so I will stand by my earlier statement.  Most of our guests are considerate, after all they are using "the cabins of other people!"

Seems we did have some "vandals" hiding in the guest list last weekend.  The long lasting pink fish on the wall by the pool was pried off, as were all the other sea critters, and the pieces tossed in the pool.  The same bratty people thought that wiping melted ice cream on the four phone books left on the counter / wall by the Post Office was a form of "art?"  Good thing that most of the locals had already picked up their phone books!  I left them a note regarding the definition of the word VANDAL, perhaps they had never even heard the term - the note was gone the next day!!  I can't believe how many winters that pink fish, made by the W.A.T.C.H. folks, had survived stuck to the concrete block wall!!

W.A.T.C.H. stands for Work for Amdor, Tuolumne, Calaveras Handicapped and the organization provides opportunities for the adult mentally-challenged folks.  They have the contract to clean the beaches and the shopping center at Pinecrest, Washington St. in downtown Sonora.  They learn to stuff envelopes for various organizations and businesses and also do simple organizing / packaging chores. Their ART activity is making ornaments from clay to sell in the GOOD STUFF thrift store on Stockton Street.  Their FISH are so colorful and unique, I might just have to buy some more!!