Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Years ago my home state of Minnesota was experiencing a drought. Imagine that-a state with 11,842 lakes experiencing a drought! I know the license plate says "Land of Ten Thousand Lakes" but I'm sure being typical Minnesotans they were hesitant to guess and more hesitant to brag-so instead of 11,842 it was a modest 10,000. But, the drought made an impression on me that water was precious. With California in a severe drought the new technology being developed to fill our need for water has...
Don and I met in college and got married after we graduated. We got our degrees in psychology so naturally we decided to go into retail. Don worked for a big home center and I worked in retail banking. We both enjoyed helping our customers solve problems and help them in our respective jobs. Banking was changing and the home center Don worked for was sold so it was time for us to make a change. In 1982 we found this store and took over January, 1983. It has been an adventure ever since but we...
I guess I spilled the beans about my method for getting Don to do most of the outside chores—I call it the “easy peasy” yard clean up method. It is the way I slowly ease out of the picture as he does the actual work without his noticing. But, there is an additional element that I also employ—I call it “Dazzled by Gadgets” where I introduce useful tools to make short work of any job through the fun of using gadgets. I first noticed the allure that gadgets had on my dad. If there was a gadget to...
Spring is here, so no more clinging to the remote saying, “I’ll go out as soon as the snow melts.” he snow has melted and now it is yard shape up time. The first look at the yard after winter is sobering. It is brown and untidy, but it doesn’t take much to get it back in shape. Remember, it’s only eight weeks until the Fourth of July and having the best yard for the BBQ is a priority. At Pioneer True Value Home Center we have what you need to revive your lawn, fix your sprinklers, replant b...
This time of the year I think about when I was sixteen and was almost a victim of carbon monoxide poisoning . It was a chilly January day when everyone went to work leaving me, my younger sister, and my 18-month-old niece sound asleep. About three hours later I awoke to my niece screaming in anger. She wanted up and as I slowly got out of bed I realized I had a terrible pounding headache and I was nauseous. I woke up my sister, telling her to take care of our niece because I was sick. She got ou...
My, oh my, how the time does fly – it seems only a few months ago I stopped sending out Christmas cards when the postage went up to 15 cents per stamp. (It was probably 1979.) I still feel pangs of guilt as I receive cards from friends and family. This card-guilt thing reminds me of another guilt-inducing activity I have been participating in for years – New Year's Resolutions. Every year I would spend days enumerating the actions I resolved to adhere to the following year. I numbered them. I s...
