Tulare County Film Commission posts new promo video
February 10, 2014
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My Facebook “Look Back”
February 5, 2014
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Drone Training 101
December 29, 2013
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Important first steps in training your very own drone.
The Journey of the Archer
October 30, 2013
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That’s as good a title for this dream as any, I suppose, although all I was doing was trying to get to someplace just past the horizon. Why I needed to be there, I don’t know, but I was determined.
I seldom remember my dreams when I wake, and when I do it’s usually just an emotional memory, lacking details. I do recall that recently they have been either scary or upsetting, but what they consisted of I have no idea. This morning’s was different.
I don’t know if this dream was influenced by the book I recently read, Legacy, A Father’s Tale, or by my enjoyment of the television series Arrow, but I was apparently an archer. I was carrying a bow, a bit more modern than the one in the image above, and I was dressed in a manner that combined elements of modern clothing and this archer’s garb. I don’t remember having a quiver of bows on my back, however.
The journey takes place today, or very nearly so, and I’m trying to get from wherever I am, presumably Visalia, first to a point on the other side of Ivanhoe. But things are different.
Workin’ the OT
October 4, 2013
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10-4-2013 Tulare County Sheriff’s Dispatch, Channel 1, south end of Tulare County.
A neighbor gets nosy…
June 29, 2013
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Back in December I was forced to evict a relative from my home. Long story, but after six months of legal actions and $500, he was gone. I set up a webcam in a bedroom window to keep an eye on things, since he tried several times to come back.
Today, I had a visitor check out the camera close up.
Maybe he wasn’t being nosy, but rather was looking for a way to get inside and cool off, as it was 106 degrees outside! Poor guy… keep a-knockin’, but you can’t come in! Sorry!
A long time ago, in a universe far, far away…
June 7, 2013
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From my junior year at Mt. Whitney High School, 1974-1975. I remember that kid, but it’s hard to recognize him.
Gerald Ford is President, Harvey Milk has yet to win elected office, the fall of Saigon is imminent. Visalia’s population is 65,000. Apple Computer is a year away. 99.9% of phones have a cord.
He is 17, in serious denial, and is trying to find girls alluring. It’s not working.
Quick! I need a time machine! I need to talk to this kid!
A Tale of Two Cities
June 5, 2013
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
What a difference a day makes! On Monday, June 3, 2013, the City of Visalia‘s City Council issued it’s second LGBT Pride Month Proclamation. On Tuesday, June 4th, the City of Porterville issued it’s first. The two events could not have been more different.
Both cities provide online applications for proclamations, with instructions on how to turn them into the city. Such requests are routinely handled by cities across the country, and are ways for cities to recognize citizens and groups. Here’s Porterville’s “Request a Proclamation” page.
Visalia’s proclamation resulted in applause and friendly chatter in a standing room only crowd that overflowed into the hallway. This year’s proclamation went mostly unnoticed by the greater community in Visalia. Last year it provoked some media coverage and talk-radio interviews with the Mayor of Visalia, Amy Shuklian. Porterville’s proclamation, in a meeting room at least twice the size of Visalia’s, also with standing room only and overflow into the hall, resulted in boos, catcalls, the arrest of a anti-gay protestor, and at least two calls for the death penalty for homosexuals.
City of Visalia Proclaims June LGBT Pride Month
June 3, 2013
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For the second year in a row, the Visalia City Council proclaims June as LGBT Pride Month in Visalia. For our very conservative community, this is a big deal!..I’ll be putting up more pictures as I steal them from various Facebook posts, and once Mary and Herm get their shots to me I’ll have some professional style pictures to show off! For now, these…
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Jimmiejoe Goes Golfing – circa 1968
November 5, 2013
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There’s a great website by Visalia historian Terry Ommen, Historic Happenings, that chronicles the history of Visalia. This month’s post had a question about the location of the Linwood Golf Course.
The image above is where I believe the course was located. South of School Street, between Linwood and Crenshaw. The course, if I recall, was a small 9 hole affair, and stretched down to the edge of Mill Creek on the south. (I don’t recall if the creek traversed the course, or simply skirted it.) The area is now condominiums and single family homes.
I played one “round” there when I was in the 5th or 6th grade (circa 1968). A buddy who lived in the area invited me to go with him and “play” a round. We did, but I don’t remember our scores, or if we even bothered to keep track. We had brought a set of clubs, they were Lenny’s or his father’s I suppose, and we hacked our way around the course.
It was a fun afternoon, but I would not touch another golf club until the mid-80’s, when the boss invited the “managerial” staff to a round out at the course east of Mooney’s Grove. (the name escapes me, and it is no longer open) That round was such a spectacular mess, with a long hole (on the back nine? South side of the course. If you’re a local golfer, you probably know it.) teaching me that I have no business on a golf course, ever. I haven’t tried the game since.
I understand golf was invented in Scotland. I think they did it just to torture the rest of the world.
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