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I’d like to thank my sweet husband for getting me hooked on Fandango’s Spider game. I’m not sure how he got started on it. I had noticed one night that he was quietly playing a game, and when I

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Jerry and I drove out to El Toro Road and Glenn Ranch Road today to view the damage done by the fire. We also went to Foothill Ranch and walked around the elementary school baseball field to see what had happened in Whiting Ranch up close. What we saw was incredible.

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I don’t often remember my dreams, but my most recent was vivid enough for me to recall with picture perfect detail. For an unknown reason I was walking down a paved yet dirt strewn road, my arms full of an unknown burden. There were no people in sight when I first saw a few coins [...]

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After several attempts and lots of desire I was beginning to wonder if there was a reason I shouldn’t see the movie “Into The Wild”, directed by Sean Penn. I knew it would affect me deeply after I saw it featured on the

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The Santiago fire that 2 days ago could be seen from our house and while driving down Crucero, is as of 2:20 pm today is “again sweeping toward Silverado Canyon”, according to the O.C. Register. A closer look (click to enlarge) at the map located on the left, shows an approximation of where we live. “While Riverside County [...]

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This was the scene as I drove north on Crucero towards Ralphs shopping center last night around 8:45pm. I was shocked to see that the Santiago fire had (possibly) jumped El Toro Road and was now headed in a northerly direction near Modjeska Canyon and Silverado Canyon which is behind and up the hill from

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Because of the San Diego fires, I have several family members that have had to evacuate their homes. They live in Olivehain, Escondido and San Diego. The winds and rising temperatures are making matters worse, and escalating the

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Jerry took this photo last night from our back yard of Foothill Ranch, a city about 6 miles and 11 minutes away from us, that has been under attack by the Santiago Canyon fire. At last report the fire has burned 15,000 acres, four

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I feel the need to write a So Cal update, for those of you who don’t frequent my blog often this will take you back aways, so settle in and get comfy. You have some catching up to do. Those of you who are kind enough to come around often

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Hello and welcome to my new website! As you can see there isn’t much in the way of content right now, but I hope to change that little by little along with the help of my personal assistant better known to some of you as Jerry. I will admit this seems a bit overwhelming to me, but [...]

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