When we moved here from San Jose last March, we got a lot of dire predictions and alarming warnings about how hot and horrible Oroville was in the Summer. After one Summer here, I can certainly admit it was hot. Admittedly, this is the only place I’ve ever lived where I saw a weather report that said “blazing sunshine.” But horrible it was not.
We’re well into Fall now, and it’s very pleasant.
I work from a home office. Really, I do work from a home office. And that home office is nearly always some unholy sinkhole of cluttered awfulness. There’re stacks on stacks. The stacks have married and bred little stacks. About 10 years ago, the cat took over a large portion of my desk and won’t…
Well, not quite that. It’s true that Oroville gets really hot in the Summer. My Accuweather APP on my cellphone has been know to say that the expected weather is “blazing sunshine.” It’s not Hell, but it gets really hot. Today, we got snow. This surprised me a lot. True, it wasn’t heavy snow, and…
I like odd street, road, or highway names. Up until now, my favorite one I ever saw was Wamble Road, off Highway 120 on the way to Yosemite from San Jose. Every time we passed the sign marking Wamble Road, my mind would start nattering, “Wamble Woad! Wamble Woad! I’m Elmer Fudd, and I live…
Our new little home in Oroville has three fruit trees in a row at the back of the back yard. Early in spring, I could tell that two of them were peach or nectarine trees, but it beat me what the other one was. Delightful surprises unfolded as time passed.
Do you ever – ever – do only one thing at a time anymore? I’m not sure I do. If I’m doing something, I’m thinking about something else. If I’m doing something else, I’m doing another something else at the same time. I doubt this works all that well, but I can’t seem to figure…
Probably the most prominent feature in or around Oroville is Table Mountain. It’s much more prominent than the dam. In fact, it’s hard to miss it. You just look over thata way and there it is – big flat mountain that looks like somebody sliced off the top portion, probably about halfway down. We heard…