by Christine | Jan 29, 2018 | Welcome Column
12/17/2007Dear friends,Well, I could take this opportunity to jump into the hullaballu about pets at Grass Valley. My gosh, what a tempest in a teapot. A few RV folks who travel with their tea cup chijuajuas will be camping way the heck on the edge of the fairgrounds...
by Christine | Dec 17, 2007 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Well, I could take this opportunity to jump into the hullaballu about pets at Grass Valley. My gosh, what a tempest in a teapot. A few RV folks who travel with their tea cup chijuajuas will be camping way the heck on the edge of the fairgrounds where no...
by Christine | May 23, 2016 | Welcome Column
THE DAILY GRIST…”There’s gold in them thar hills, boys!”-Mark Twain May has been a busy month at our house. Traveling being at the top of the list. The first part of the month saw the members of Virtual Strangers, for whom I play bass, heading out in...
by Christine | Jun 27, 2011 | Welcome Column
Dear Readers, Allow me to indulge myself as I wax poetic about the Father’s Day Festival. At the risk of sounding like some old Deadhead friends of mine who routinely declared that every show they saw was the “best one ever, dude,” I can’t help but declare that the...
by Christine | Apr 8, 2020 | Welcome Column
Thomas Paine wrote those words seen above. He had a way with words, didn’t he? We have been hearing for years how transformative the modern age is. How fast we went from primitive word processors and fax machines to the Information Superhighway. Well, folks, that was...
by Christine | Dec 16, 2013 | Welcome Column
As I look at my hands right now they tell a story. They look wrinkled, betraying my age. I can still see a couple of scars on my left thumb where a saw bounced off as I tried to make fuel for a camp fire on Bull Island thirty two years ago. Fifteen years after that, I...
