Good Morning! It’s Saturday, December 14th: Local Stories Needed, Rug Returned, 11 Weird Disneyland Things
Ten Stories Worth Sharing
Hi Friends!
Happy Holiday’s!
Be Well! Stay Safe!
I don’t know how many little towns exist in California, but I will keep looking for them weekly. We can start with Washington, California, Nevada County.
Washington was founded 175 years ago, secluded in the Sierra Nevada Hills, close to beautiful hiking trails and the South Yuma River.
But let’s let SF Gate tell the entire story of why it deserves a visit.
515 Fair Ave. Santa Cruz, California. Does it ring a bell with anyone reading this post?
It seems this home has some profound folklore, the kind you read about that makes a movie of the week episode or one of those real-life stories on streaming television.
Can you believe this story? Disneyland had 11 weird things we wouldn’t think or know about.
Weird things like Pancake Races and The Phantom of Disneyland, to name a couple.
Talk about a messy traffic jam. It seems a truck carrying 30K pounds of chocolate caught on fire while on Highway 580 the other day.
According to the story, “Approximately 30,000 to 40,000 pounds of chocolate were in the trailer, and nearly all of it appeared to melt, he said.
A photo posted on CHP’s X account shows loads of chocolate oozing out of the truck and onto the road.”
The Strange Ranch is for sale. One hundred twenty acres of beautiful farmland, a gold-bearing stream, and a cannabis farm are just waiting for you to purchase for the tiny sum of $7.2 million. The ranch is named after the family which has lived there for over 30 years.
“The ranch sits in the middle of a rugged California landscape, located in Calaveras County in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Lim said the property is largely surrounded by undeveloped Bureau of Land Management property with the South Fork of the Mokelumne River flowing through the ranch and over a 10-foot waterfall a few thousand feet downstream from the property.”
Patti and I were going to Pismo Beach on Saturday, November 16th, when we heard the news about the rug being stolen. I’ve been following the story ever since, and finally, there is an end to it.
The rug was returned on December 2nd. Interestingly enough it was returned by mail without a name, note, or return address.
The Church of Ambrosia, the magic mushroom church in San Francisco, has stated that it is closing its doors in the SOMA area due to pricey permits and building requirements. Its other locations, Oakland and Berkeley, will remain open for the foreseeable future.
“The Church of Ambrosia is one of at least a handful of psychedelic churches operating in the city. Psychedelics remain completely illegal, but non-binding resolutions have been passed in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley that instruct law enforcement to treat the use of the drugs as a lower priority. “
They have ground-level windows that are not up to code and would cost a minimum of $200,00 to bring to code. David Hodges
Who knew there would be an issue at this time of the season? How could
San Francisco’s SantaCon have a problem with imitation SantaCons?
It seems that the founder of SantaCon is in that predicament and has no money to protect himself from imitators.
Do you ever stop to figure out teens and their use of technology and social media? I will say I don’t think about it, but I know we should, considering we have five grandchildren who are all social media and tech-savvy.
I posted this story since most of he companies mentioned are here in our state.
YouTube, Tik-Tok and all the others are to blame for our kids being on their sites almost constantly,
An East Bay engineer from Oakland is trying his hardest to spread civil pride in Oakland and the surrounding Bay Area cities.
Andy Wang is an engineer in Livermore but lives to clean up hot spots for illegal dumping.
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