by Christine | Sep 15, 2010 | Welcome Column
These are the sounds that greet me on Monday morning: “Grrrrr” trills the pack of raccoons that surround me as I go to get the morning paper off the driveway, eying me menacingly, snapping their fingers, but they did not attack. They seem to be rehearsing for a...
by Christine | Feb 27, 2011 | Welcome Column
I began my spring cleaning quite a few weeks back. As I was going through the house, room by room, sorting, editing, polishing and dusting, it occurred to me that I have an awful lot of stuff that has no earthly purpose but to sit on the shelf or hang on the wall to...
by Christine | Oct 18, 2009 | Welcome Column
I was planning on going to the Fall campout this year, looking forward to it, waiting for it, anticipating it for the past 5 months. Instead of putting my camping gear in the shed after the Father’s Day Festival last June, I left it in the garage ready to load in the...
by Christine | Aug 21, 2010 | Welcome Column
Hello from our little slice of heaven here on Whiskey Creek. Our local web site, mymotherlode.com, has promised us a very livable 96 degrees today and I’m feeling very thankful. 2010 has been far and away the coolest summer we’ve had here in Jamestown since we arrived...
by Christine | Feb 2, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note—Yes, we had one once upon a time. Eleven years ago to be exact. His name was Kyle Abbott, he was a teenager…a YOUNG teenager…and his monthly column opened up wide the eyes of a certain segment of the northern California bluegrass community who were…this...
