by Christine | Sep 6, 2013 | Welcome Column
Item 1: I was home relaxing after my wonderful trip to Cooperstown and seeing the Hall of Fame activities my sister Maria Nadauld (Above the Bay Booking) graciously presented to me for my 65th birthday. I went outside to mow the front lawn when Bob, our next door...
by Christine | Jul 1, 2011 | Welcome Column
Item 1: The 2011 Father’s Day Festival is over. Folks were excited, the weather was perfect, the bands were great and the music and laughter of various jams wafted through the pines. But there was a sense of loss, an unfamiliar odd feeling that something was missing...
by Christine | Dec 6, 2013 | Welcome Column
Item 1: The late great Jimmie Stewart was on the Tonight show chatting with Johnny Carson and related this little story. Jimmie asked Johnnie what you would call a newly married woman who refused to get romantic with her husband until he would prepare for her a huge...
by Christine | Oct 7, 2011 | Welcome Column
Item 1: From the Associated Press in Stockholm: A seemingly drunk Swedish moose found stuck in a tree: Per Johansson, 45, says he heard a roar from his vacationing neighbor’s garden in southwestern Sweden late Tuesday and went to have a look. There, he found a female...
by Christine | Dec 2, 2011 | Welcome Column
Last Monday November 21, Sheila and I, bleary eyed and half asleep bundled up in our warmest coats, got into our Saturn Aura at 4:30 A.M. for the foggy, chilly ride to Doctors Hospital in Modesto. Even though my minimal invasive microlaminectomy wasn’t’ scheduled...
by Christine | Mar 30, 2012 | Welcome Column
One The S.F. Chronicle has had a long history of well known and famous writers. As a v. young child I was weaned on the daily columns of Delaplane, Hoppe, Caen, and my favorite Charles McCabe. As I grew older the inimitable Ralph J. Gleason was a daily read as well as...
by Christine | Jul 5, 2013 | Welcome Column
Thought for the day: Would you rather be attacked by 50 duck sized horses or 1 horse sized duck? Item 1: I hope everyone had an excellent 4th of July. It is a cool 107 degrees in Turlock and our unheated swimming pool is reading 86 degrees. This brings to mind my past...
by Christine | Feb 3, 2012 | Welcome Column
Today’s column is dedicated to the memory or my sister-in-law of 40 years, Mary Katherine Gulley Pacheco, who after a 5 month long battle passed away December 15 from complications of pancreatitis. Mary was an older sister to Sheila and Billy, my sister-in-law for 40...
by Christine | Jul 29, 2010 | Welcome Column
Item 1: Recently Jeanie Ramos had a wonderful and well appreciated “Welcome Column” about the old home place. Sheila and I purchased our beautiful home in Turlock May 1980 and here is a little bit about our old home place. 2010 home interest rates are at an all time...
by Christine | Nov 2, 2012 | Welcome Column
Item 1. Thought for the day: “Very often the encyclopedist finds odd relevant octuplicates buried after many ages.” Item 2: Fall has arrived bringing with it wind, darkened skies, downed tree branches and a layer of dust on everything visible and invisible. The leaves...
