What do you love about Palomar? Are you looking to own property here? You can take your pick of homes, cabins and land for sale plus I usually have some extra keys in my pocket. You’re always invited to come on up for a tour.
How about the views? You see Point Loma out there with the San Diego skyline and islands dotting the Pacific – so close and yet so far away – with the beauty of the Four Seasons! Lots to share with you.
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We are teaming up as one united force with Temecula, Warner Springs and Borrego. You might have seen them in the news in their yellow shirts. Ours should arrive in time for the Board of Supervisors Meeting, We ordered through Susan Humason owner of Premier Image, who will be at the meeting early. We might be slipping them on in the meeting room!
She will also have yard signs, posters, hand-outs and eventually black baseball style hats with our logo and is glad to assist other communities who would like to do the same. Let’s suit up together and roll!
Donation suggested per shirt – $15.00 each. Reserve your size through Susan you may text or call 858-922-7692. Soon they will be available through the Palomar Mountain General Store and you’ll also be able to pay through our webpage. However, webpage is under construction so just bring cash please on Tuesday.
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Can YOU attend and speak at the August 18th Board of Supervisors Meeting?
9 am at the County Administration Center, 1600 Pacific Highway, Room 310, San Diego, CA 92101. There is an additional session on the 19th, should you not be available on the 18th. You can register to speak here: https://publiccomment.sandiegocounty.gov/#events Jim tells us that the Powerlink is FIRST on the agenda. Plan to arrive early for a good seat.
If you are speaking, ensure that you check in at the kiosk or with the Deputy Clerk in the Board Chamber when you arrive. If you don’t check in, you may not be called. Speakers are called in the order requests are received.
Glad you asked. Two and a half years ago, we learned that residents were getting letters asking for permission to let SDG&E do and environmental survey. We quickly learned their intentions. We launched SavePalomarMountain to block the 200 foot towers with 500 volts of power coming up from Henshaw, along East Grand and down through the State Park. Our webpage is being updated today but soon you will be able to see the history and leave your comments on why we say NO to a Powerlink.
Eventually we were pretty confident that SDG&E had selected a different route along Hwy 79 and through Temecula. (So sad for them!!!) However, SDG&E has told us at our PMPO meeting in May that since they have such a strong push-back with so many more people, they might need to use an alternate route. After our fire last week, I reached out to our Save Palomar Mountain task force and we decided we should gear up and get back in the fight. Couldn’t have been too soon.
Please visit the SDGE Powerlink webpage updated yesterday and see their new maps. Two and a half years ago we created this map above with the properties that had letters, colored in orange. That was SDG&E’s route! Now you can see that SDG&E has identified ‘South Palomar Mountain’ as an alternative route with a blue line. I carefully added the blue line approximately over our map to show the difference. (South Mountain??!? This cuts right through the HEART of beautiful Palomar! Fired up yet?)
How can YOU help stop the 200 foot towers and 500,000 volt transmission lines from clear-cutting through Palomar Mounatin?
Jim Hamerly, our SMP Chairman just learned that this new blue line goes right through his living room!!! He has been working with neighbors of the 15 regions surrounding Palomar Mountain. We really need to pack it out. Can YOU attend and speak at the August 18th Board of Supervisors Meeting at 9 am at the County Administration Center, 1600 Pacific Highway, Room 310, San Diego, CA 92101. There is an additional session on the 19th, should you not be available on the 18th. You can register to speak here: https://publiccomment.sandiegocounty.gov/#events
If you are speaking, ensure that you check in at the kiosk or with the Deputy Clerk in the Board Chamber when you arrive. If you don’t check in, you may not be called. Speakers are called in the order requests are received.
The full Agenda for the meeting is attached, but here is the essential part of the meeting:
A. Roll Call at 9 am B. Opening Ceremonial Matters 1) Invocation 2) Pledge of Allegiance 3) Presentation or Announcement of Proclamations and Awards C. –>> Non-Agenda Public Comment <<– This is our speaking opportunity
Fill up your car with neighbors and friends, carpool, pack it out!
Meanwhile, please subscribe at our brand new Facebook page:
It is interactive and we invite you to post links you might come across, please like and comment on the page. Then please SHARE on other pages – especially Pauma Valley, Valley Center, Fallbrook, and beyond to provide power to Orange County and LA. Those local areas have a rude awakening this morning as these towers could drop down just west of the round-about, between the Pauma Fire Station and Lazy H, run up the hill there, and take off
See that blue button on the left? Please click to invite you contact list. I didn’t prejudge any of my 1300+ friends. I’m inviting them ALL! Please do the same. This is a brand new page and we really need to grown the followers FAST.
Then, at the bottom of each post, it would be so helpful to add something like this:
What are your thoughts about SDG&E clearcutting Palomar Mountain with the Power link? Please comment at SavePalomarMountain.org.
Do you have some slash to chip? We just received money for some chipping days for the summer. It’s time to clean up your yard of branches, and trim up your trees, chop down your bushes – fire season is upon us! Then pile next to your driveway or road that I can bring a truck and chipper up and turn around. Have the cut ends of branches all facing the road so we can run it through the chipper and get to the next job. No old wood that’s been left in the ground – when it has dirt on it, we can’t put it through the chipper.
There is a brochure at the PO Office detailing clearing for a fire-safe environment.
Call me at 760-742-1891 (best in the evenings) and I’ll put you on the list.
Everyone is invited to the annual Apple Festival. It is always a delightful time with samples of pressed apple cider from fresh local apples. Take your turn and make your own applewood jewelry and corn husk dolls. Sometimes there is a petting zoo, and you can watch and help Cecelia spin on her loom. A sack race and other games are also in the works as well as live bluegrass music. We are usually treated to some old-fashioned square dancing, and you are invited to show up in your favorite pioneer costume like some of the locals. Plan ahead for a fun day.
Palomar Mountain Christian Conference will provide a hot lunch for $5.00. Like to have a booth or volunteer for the event? Simply reach out to Rosemary Johnston on her cell at 619-384-6852.
Get the word out to family and friends and put it on your calendar:
Saturday, October 17, 2026, 10 to 4:00 located at the Silvercrest Picnic area, just past the the State Park Office on the left.
Here are some pix of a Festival a few years ago. Those kids have sure grown up. Recognize anyone?
Next Saturday, August 8th is our next 40 yard dumpster delivery for Palomar Community use.
Can you help load? This has often been a Robert Carlyle and Cecelia Borland show. Others do help and it is much appreciated. It should be another hot day so extra hands are welcomed. Simply show up with your load, bring your gloves and stay awhile! Thanks so much!
The Dumpster is open from 8am until 4 (or until full) at Robert Carlyle’s property on Bailey Meadow Rd.
Take State Park Road to Bailey Meadow, first driveway on the right.
The usual rules apply: No paint, tires, HAZMAT, ewaste, Lg appliances, chemicals. It generally fills fairly quickly so come early.
Donations appreciated. Do your ‘Summer Clean Out’ and bring it on over.
Dumpster Day – It’s the place to be to see all your neighbors and friends.
Powerland Equipment has been doing a fabulous job mowing the sides of the public roads. So fun to watch. Also many thanks to Robert Carlyle who cut back the edges of Birch Hill Road making it a lot more fire safe.
Thanks to all everyone does to maintain this mountain.
Here are the first few items for the Hoedown Raffle. Who wants to be the starting bid for that vintage leather-topped trunk?!? What do you have to head our way? Simply text or call Jillian Marlay 760-315-3331 and she will help you with directions for getting your donations to the Community Center. She and Christine Locken will be arranging all prizes during the week prior to be so tempting and fun for your shopping pleasure at the silent auction.
However, neither of them can be there the day of the event. How about YOU? Would YOU like to volunteer to take charge and make it the best Raffle day ever? Cecelia would be ‘over-the-moon’ to talk to you about it: 760-594-4688.
This neighbor is ready for winter and he even has a couple more rows of wood headed for that stack! Here are some tips:
The wood he had drying in the sun the past year or so has filled his wood shed, ready for a promised pretty wet winter this year. This oak will season all year in the sun, rain, or snow. No tarp needed – leaving it totally exposed helps keep the rodents out, too. Just stack your wood on pallets to be able to preserve that first row of logs for future use.
What does CalFire have to say? Firewood stacks are to be at least 50 feet from your home or cabin. If you have wood stacked under a patio roof for easy access in the winter, for example, it should be covered with not just any old tarp, a fire PROOF tarp.
Henry Ford is credited with saying “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.” I have a different version: Firewood warms you at least four times; When you chop it, split it, stack it and then enjoy sitting in front of a warm fire on a blustery day in winter.
This Extreme Heat the next few days will pass and before we know it, we’ll be thankful for our firewood. Meanwhile, stay cool!
“When it comes to taking care of yourself, your mother was right …There is nothing a little chicken soup wont make better.”
That old fashioned little verse was on a card that arrived last week. Apparently a bug is going around and the Cowboy got it, than shared. What a guy!
Sorry to hear the plight of others that have been putting up with this summer season of coughing and all the rest.
Just had to give a shout-out for a chicken soup that really hits the spot. We’ve been through two four-packs of this yummy treat with this bug. Diced white onions and that fresh avocado give it such a great flavor. They make it fresh to order so you might want to call in advance: Lourdes in Escondido has been known for many years as “The best Chicken Soup in Town”. Well, next to Mom’s…
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