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"Welcome to the Country"

A Fun Column by Charity Maness

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Enjoy Your Halloween and Plan to Attend the 7th Annual San Andreas Community Carnival!

Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 10/15/2014 06:31 PM
San Andreas, CA...

Make Sure You Stop By the Big NEXT Flea Market

Posted by: John_Hamilton on 06/22/2012 12:12 PM

Fire Update....Vegetation Fire near Hwy 26 and Paloma Road.... 30% CONTAINED

Posted by: John_Hamilton on 05/30/2012 06:24 PM
Paloma, CA...Those on scene are reporting 15 acres with a moderate rate of spread. The fire is burning in heavy fuels on the north side of the road... Update addition crews are still inbound innound including engines and hand crews from Amador. Update as of 6:54pm. Air attack is now overhead. Status update...fire is 10-15 acres so as of the last update it sounds as if the they are slowing it down a bit...Update as of 7:50pm....Lisa Williams from Cal Fire said the fire is 20 to 25 acres and there 12 engines, 4 hand crews, air craft and additional crews on scene. As of her call they were releasing tankers. Fire is now 30% CONTAINED.


Photos From Tammy Beilstein
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A Smidgen of White Today at Higher Elevations

Posted by: John_Hamilton on 02/07/2012 11:55 AM
Bear Valley, CA...This Afternoon: Snow, mainly before 4pm. High near 36. South wind between 6 and 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. Tonight: A 40 percent chance of snow showers, mainly before 10pm. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 27. North northwest wind between 3 and 6 mph. Little or no snow accumulation expected....

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Welcome to the Country~by Charity Maness

Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 11/03/2010 10:06 AM
You know you’ve moved to the country when:
• You’re little fuel efficient car is viewed as just another bump in the road
• Any flotation device is thought to be, and utilized as, a ‘fishin’ boat’
• There are all of five last names in a town boasting 2000 people
• The food you eat at a bbq was once grazing in someone’s front yard
• Anything green and mowable is considered lawn
• A broken toilet becomes an opportunity for someone with a green thumb
• A rusty old tractor is not trash…its eco lawn art
• Composting is just a new fangled word for manure spreading
• The population of the entire county is less than the city where you previously resided.....


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Welcome to the Country~by Charity Maness

Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 10/06/2010 12:39 PM
So you’ve decided to move to the country where kids use all the resources available to them to embrace the spirit of the country. After hearing a story told by one of my friends of how her son had recently and proudly I might add roped a chicken, I figured it would be just fine to tell of my roping experiences with my brood of country wannabe’s. Now unlike my friend and her brood which were raised on a cattle/sheep ranch with acres upon acres of land to roam, my children were raised for the first nine years in a small coastal town. We had what I considered to be a large lot, but when compared to the country…well, let’s just say, it paled in comparison. So when my friend reiterated her hilarious story of her son’s roping adventures “ropin’ anything that moved” it got my mind a spinnin’.....
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Welcome to the Country~by Charity Maness

Posted by: thepinetree on 09/15/2010 08:01 PM
So you’ve decided to move to the country where creativity is the name of the game. The word ‘creative’ encompasses so many different aspects of our daily country lives that it’s hard to put it all in a nutshell. So to start with the basics: There is creative writing. Most of us have managed to endure some form of creative writing in our lives, be it a high school portfolio autobiography or the general education requirement of creative writing. While this broadens our mind it doesn’t necessarily apply to today’s line of thinking. Then there is creative as in knitting, sewing, welding, painting, artsy type creativity. Luckily for us in the foothills artists abound! .....
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Welcome to the Country~by Charity Maness

Posted by: thepinetree on 08/31/2010 03:29 PM
So you’ve decided to move to the country where sometimes we need to be reminded that there are parts of the country that are slightly more odd than us. What follows are a few musing from my latest trip to Kentucky with Wyatt and mini Wyatt....With seemingly every visit to Kentucky within the past year my mere presence has brought on monumental flooding, destructive storms and tornados, the locals are beginning to think I might be kin to mother nature herself. So of course this visit, being no different, brought twister warnings within the first day of arrival. So, what to do while waiting for a possible twister? Soak in a friend’s pool of course. That would be a friend with a basement; friends with benefits takes on a whole new meaning round these parts. Pools and basements rank way up there in the benefit department. Just FYI, teeth are pretty low on that list......


Swimming Cow in Kentucky
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Welcome to the Country..."So you’ve decided to move to the country where on this side of the continental United States the viewpoint is much different from say….Kentucky"~by Charity Maness

Posted by: thepinetree on 06/16/2010 09:57 AM
On assignment in Kentucky…The good news? No tornados…yet. Seeing as how that last time I visited this little slice of Kentucky known as Irvine (pronounced Ervin) the local postmaster (who now knows be by name..that being ‘the gal from Caleefornee’) said, “I knew y’all were headin’ into town on account of the bad weather” I am grateful to not be the bearer of bad weather…this trip. You might have to read that long sentence again. I know I did....

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Welcome to the Country...So you’ve decided to move to the country where the county fair can be a hoppin’ good time!~by Local Author Charity Maness

Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 05/14/2010 07:58 PM
In Calaveras County we have the honor and distinction of hosting the Calaveras County Jumping Frog Jubilee, a frog movement that began on May 19 and 20, 1928, on Main Street in down town Angels Camp. When out of towners shake their heads at the odd name of our fair we foothill folk are aghast that those poor souls have such a gaping hole in their literary education that they have not heard of the famous book by Mark Twain, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” Though shocked, we secretly feel superior in the knowledge that we have not only heard of the famous work, many of us have actually read some of the stories in the collection. ....
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