The Old Folks Home

[pertnear09]

Very smallll family here... Mom Me and My son. I am preparing to move after the first of the year... Probably February or March.

Thanksgiving will be a half a turkey and fixins. Christmas will be the same. We all are done with gift giving so I havent a clue on what to do except give home Canned things to mom. Son ... I may offer to do some Concert tickets. Hes very into heavy metal music... Which surprisingly I like.

When I get back home I plan to take lots of pictures. The view South is of a stretch of BLM land and Mexico. The view north Is piles and piles of boulders that go for about Sixty miles. West boulders eventually rising to What used to be a Forest of ancient Juniper trees. Fire wiped them out in the 1940's.

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This is not my picture but a picture smilar to my land.

deb

Nice picture. Wouldn't be surprised to see Cisco and Pancho riding out across there.

 

[microchick]

@perchie.girl! I look at the picture and mentally yell ROCKS!
Yes, I am a rock hound/enthusiast. DH just presented me with a box of Geodes last week that I gleefully split. I have cases and shadow boxes full of rocks from fossils to amethysts.

Where we live was once a saline ocean. Lots of limestone, sea shell fossils and the like but nothing really spectacular to find as far as spectacular stones are concerned.

If I looked out my back door and saw that scene. I'd be outside and never in the house!

 

[perchie.girl]

Nice picture. Wouldn't be surprised to see Cisco and Pancho riding out across there.

Wouldnt surprise me at all. The land is full of history. There are several sites in San Diego county where we fought the Spanish. Many of our communities are named after Their original owners. Some of those Ranchos were two to three thousand acres each.

Some of their homes are still there as well as line men out buildings. The linemen would follow the fence and repair as they went they would be so far away they needed a place to camp at night. They usually had water and a little adobe shack where they could put their bedroll down.

Santee the town I live in was part of Rancho Fanita. The train tracks even went through town Where they could load up cattle and send them to El Cajon Or San Yisidro for sale.

The calvary was Stationed at Campo... Which is still functioning as a train depot and museum. They were Buffalo Soldiers. Mr. Spreckles was a millionaire in Sugar... And His Decked out Train car is there... Tiffeny glass and mahogony and velvet interiors...

Lots of history.

My land was part of the Kumeyay Travel rout from Mexico to Our area. The name Jacumba (Town where I live) is not Mexican but Kumeyay word meaning Hut by the water. Jacumba has a hot spring which comes out of the ground about a hundred degrees. People come from all over the world to soak in it. They have Two pools and one hot tub... The main pool surrounded by the hotel is unfiltered and un treated. The water then flows into the second pool off to the side of the buildings and eventually its pumped out to a recieving pond where its taken back into the ground. It smells of sulpuer...

This used to be the place where the movie stars would come to relax and blow off a llittle steam. Till the big hotel and bath house burned down...

Lots of history

deb

 

[ronott1]

You've never had the pleasure of spending winter in IL before then, Ron. I think it was the Groud Hog Day blizzard of 2012. We had snow drifts IN our garage where the wind had blown snow around the edges of the door that were two feet deep. Yeah, things in the garage were quite frozen.

My Grandfather moved to California from Illinois in the 1920s to get away from the cold so I have not had to deal with it much. Most recently was at my Mom's cabin in the mountains.

It is a nice place to visit but I would not want to spend a lot of time there in the winter!

 

[ronott1]

Morning Old Folks! Cannot wait to see pictures of the Grand Canyon. I am jonesing to go out west again. I need to start planning the trip for next year. Haven't completely set my mind on where and when yet. I keep seeing pictures of places I've gone and want to go back. Then I see pictures of places I haven't been and then I want to go there. So many places! LOL
This weekend is going to be busy. I am starting to make all my Christmas gifts. This year I have decided to make most of them to save a little (read that as probably spend more on the materials but enjoy the end product more ;-) ) I plan on doing some paintings and just downloaded a pattern for a an adorable gnome figure for a gal I hike with who loves gnomes. We are also getting all of our food shopping done for Thanksgiving and I have a hike planned for tomorrow (with the gnome gal).
What does everyone else have planned?

This weekend I start cooking and shopping for Thanks Giving. We will be having some family here!

 

[pertnear09]

Wouldnt surprise me at all. The land is full of history. There are several sites in San Diego county where we fought the Spanish. Many of our communities are named after Their original owners. Some of those Ranchos were two to three thousand acres each.

Some of their homes are still there as well as line men out buildings. The linemen would follow the fence and repair as they went they would be so far away they needed a place to camp at night. They usually had water and a little adobe shack where they could put their bedroll down.

Santee the town I live in was part of Rancho Fanita. The train tracks even went through town Where they could load up cattle and send them to El Cajon Or San Yisidro for sale.

The calvary was Stationed at Campo... Which is still functioning as a train depot and museum. They were Buffalo Soldiers. Mr. Spreckles was a millionaire in Sugar... And His Decked out Train car is there... Tiffeny glass and mahogony and velvet interiors...

Lots of history.

My land was part of the Kumeyay Travel rout from Mexico to Our area. The name Jacumba (Town where I live) is not Mexican but Kumeyay word meaning Hut by the water. Jacumba has a hot spring which comes out of the ground about a hundred degrees. People come from all over the world to soak in it. They have Two pools and one hot tub... The main pool surrounded by the hotel is unfiltered and un treated. The water then flows into the second pool off to the side of the buildings and eventually its pumped out to a recieving pond where its taken back into the ground. It smells of sulpuer...

This used to be the place where the movie stars would come to relax and blow off a llittle steam. Till the big hotel and bath house burned down...

Lots of history

deb

Probably just as well the big shots don't come around no more.

 

[perchie.girl]

well Lows called yesterday to say the delivery would be today between 8 and 12

they called me at a little after eight and would be here in about ten minutes. By eight fifteen they were here. Ten minutes later I was signing the paper work and they were gone... Nice friendly helpful but efficient too.

Every thing stowed as I thought it would.

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deb

 

[perchie.girl]

@perchie.girl! I look at the picture and mentally yell ROCKS!
Yes, I am a rock hound/enthusiast. DH just presented me with a box of Geodes last week that I gleefully split. I have cases and shadow boxes full of rocks from fossils to amethysts.

Where we live was once a saline ocean. Lots of limestone, sea shell fossils and the like but nothing really spectacular to find as far as spectacular stones are concerned.

If I looked out my back door and saw that scene. I'd be outside and never in the house!

Yep Yep. I dont speak of this often but i feel a connection with the ground there. Those pinkish granite rocks are fabulous... I even have a formation that could be used as a small observatory space.... a nice deck and maybe some lounge furniture and shade cloth Would be a quiet place to just BE.

At night pull the Telescope out and look at the stars. YOu can see the milky way.

Here is picture of the rocks behind my house. Not mine my property line is just short of the formation.... but beautiful just the same.

 

[microchick]

DH and I have a telescope. Usually during the meteor showers in summer and winter we go out to the center of our pasture where there is a hill, throw out a blanket and lay out watching the night sky. The nearest city is 20 miles away to the north so we usually have an unencumbered view of the heavens.

Milky way, The 7 Sisters, Orion. Maybe not as spectacular as your high desert night sky but still pretty darned impressive. I don't understand how people can spend their lives living in a big city and never see the spectacular beauty of a night sky when the moon is new and weather is clear.

I've been a rock enthusiast since I was a little girl. While my friends were sitting around playing with dolls I was reading books about rocks and walking the stream near out house looking for arrowheads and fossils.

We lived near a stream for two years that was a treasure chest of relics. There were caves against one cliff that the older boys used to explore and find Indian pottery, arrow heads, spearheads, fossils galore. I hated it when my parents moved us back to town. Years later I remember reading in the paper where they found a whole mammoth skeleton a few miles away from where that house was in the creek bed that I had walked and played in so often as a child. The tusk was sticking out of the ground, in plain view.

May I would have been in rock hound heaven if I had found that!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hey morning old Folks love the stories of where we lived or have visited day started
real slow 10 am woke with a start BF said he did not wake till 9 unusual for us but darnit
think I needed the sleep also only one cup of coffee washed my hair made myself oatmeal blackberry jam to season it