Siding bling.

Today instead of the usual garage door bling or fence bling I found some side of the house bling! LOL!!!

 A tad different but bling just the same!
I love this kinda stuff, I guess that is obvious however as I am always taking bling pictures!!!
This has actually been out front of this house now for years. The owner said it was found by the lake (Lake Almanor) many, many years ago.

Womens Ministries Thrifty Boutique

Monday morning I was so excited at the weather, I through on some light weight pants, a backless shirt, chucked the winter boots for a pair of sandals and walked into Westwood. It was quiet downtown, I suspect there was a lot of playing hookie from work and school and all headed for the lake, (Lake Almanor or Walker Lake) I decided to go to the thrift store to "update " my summer wardrobe, but I had forgot that they are closed on Mondays!
It made no nevermind, It was such a BEAUTIFUL day!

 

  

  

North Shore Lake Almanor

Going to Chester yesterday to do a little shopping, I was glad I brought my camera. Chester is 13 miles west of Westwood along highway 36. You pass north shore Lake Almanor and what a sight. Soo that is what my picture(s) of the day will be. Beautiful but cold!

A Beary Unexpected Post

W alking today with the intention of taking a picture of this old snow blowing train engine (I think) and car that has been "parked" now by the railroad tracks that run here in town (Westwood) for quite sometime I came across something I found to be a bit more interesting than this old train car.

Now don't get me wrong, I am and have always been captivated with trains and more so with Caboose's and engines. I also plan on taking the picture and posting the picture meant for today, tomorrow.

You see the unexpected find today for my picture(s) for today could not wait.

Walking down Ash Street I see a crowd gathering by a pick up truck. Camera in hand I went to do a check it out thing.
Below was my find.

I am not a hunter but our area is prime from what I have been told.

There was quite a crowd gathered by this truck, and trust me when I say I would have loved to take more pictures and ask PLENTY more questions.

This bear was killed using a 30-06. It has already been measured in at 7 feet 2 inches in length. The guesstimate is well over 400 LbS.

A brown bear, this is considered enormous in size for these parts as far as a kill goes by what was told to me. Greenville, Ca. is where this took place. Greenville is 21 miles from here by way of going around Lake Almanor.

I myself have only seen 2 bears since I have lived up here which is pushing 30 years. One was right at Lake Almanor and was above my head on a mountain (more a hill) . I also did a TOTALLY foolish thing that time. I ran! Dumb, dumb and dumber. I was 21 years old at the time and pregnant with my son Travis. I believe the only reason he did not give chase is I was running right towards the lake and the campground which was full of people. Another time I was by Duck Lake not far from here at all and out cutting wood. This brown bear literally just meandered right by me. He was so close and acted as if he had never even seen me (which probably kept my wits about me) which I am SURE could not be farther from the truth.
But I tell ya what ! Neither of those bears were anywhere near as big as this bear is/was!
YIKES!!!

A Haunting they shall go

And now for later on that night, when my Jeremiah Lee and his Best Friend Mikey and Mikey's little sister Genesee showed up to do a little Trick or Treating, along with their friends Chloe and Carson.

 

Jeremiah Lee left front, Mikey, right front, Carson left back and Chloe in the right front.

 

And this is Genesee in all of her adorable smiling glory. Yes she was named after the Genesee Valley which is right outside of  Taylorsville Ca. And I do think this is such a beautiful name to go with this delighfuly cute little girl .

First off they showed up in style, by bus!

Majors Outpost, a boat and  jet ski rental place at beautiful Lake Almanor, and ran by Mikey and Genesee's parents, Joe and Theresa Majors
 I just had to go grab my camera and go inside. Of course I was using this blog as an excuse, but you can add nosy to that also. I just had to see inside.

 

This is where I found  the boys in the back of the bus. LOL!!!

 

Jeremiah Lee close-up

 

Mikey close up

 

And who is that? Oh it is my son dressed up as HIMSELF, or possibly a beer taster !

Smiling big for mommies camera! Good job Travis Lee!

Lake Almanor

This is Lake Almanor. I live about 6 miles from this beautiful lake. Tiffany my son Travis's girlfriend invited me along with my son Hunter and my grandson Jeremiah for a quick dip.

 

Just me and my Camera,

 

Lake Almanor. Right here is known as Stump Beach where we stopped to play.

 

I would do anything if this picture would have come out better. This is Mount Lassen. I have lived up here for almost 30 years now and this is the first time I have ever seen Mount Lassen without snow on the top of it. It is amazing to me, that A. it has snow on it all year round, and B. that this year it does not!!!

 

Tiffany and Jeremiah going in,

 

  

Jeremiah and myself (grandma) going in. This picture looks like he swallowed a mouth full of water!

 

Always got to have that "cute picture of the grandson"

 

And this is Tiffany and my son Hunter watching me take all these zillions of pictures. It was a nice couple of hours, and maybe you can see why I love it up here soooo much.