IT IS SNOWING!!!!

Finally, the rain is past and the snow season is HERE!   Bring the skiis, the snow boards, the sleds and the kids!!  Let the winter begin!  After a dry winter last year, we are READY for some weather, some winter business, some FUN!

It was a gorgeous and long-lasting Fall, even two heavy rain storms with winds did not get all of the lovely leaves to detach from the oak trees, but we are ready for some winter fun.  That is one reason that we LIVE here in the Central Sierras - four seasons.  I can remember during our "early married" years in Southern California we had to take a long drive over Angeles Crest Highway in order to see the change in the seasons.  The drive from Sonora to Strawberry is MUCH SHORTER and lovelier since there is no SMOG - unlike LA in the 60s!!!

Be sure and stop at the "NEW" Europa on Washington St. as you drive through Sonora (unless you stay on the bypass)  Try not to laugh when you see the monstrous changes along the highway in East Sonora where CalTrans and their contracted highway construction crews are building a monument to CA's financial problems - TWO 60 foot HIGH overpasses for the two lane extension of the bypass.  It will be quite the sightseeing spot when finished - except it will have to have tall fences to prevent vandals from dropping "stuff" on the cars below - so no chance to see anything!!

Common sense is so lacking that we need to find a new name - like uncommon sense?!  It is interesting to watch "the boys" playing with "their toys" moving dirt and rocks, blasting and moving some more rocks.  At least some folks are working - with the high unemployment maybe they should have done it with pick axes and shovels, it would have put MORE people to work!!  But no one asked me; I guess I had better just smile at all the sign holders, the Highway Patrolman with the flashing lights reminding us all to go 34 MPH rather than 50, and the "boys on their toys!"

Keep thinking SNOW, SNOW, SNOW - we need the water, the reservoirs are empty.
See you all soon!!