Kitchens ’round the mountain are sure smelling good these days with all the apple treats being made.

Part of the fun of the festival each year is baking up some great apple goodies to share.  Ranger Jessica is famous for her pies.  One year there was a big kettle of an apple chicken soup.  Lots different ideas made with apples.  So many great treats to choose from.  Just saw a recipe for an apple crisp to put in our crock pot… oh, and there is that favorite apple cake drizzled with just a bit of caramel…

Have fun with your recipes for the festival!

Bring a small water bottle and get a free fill-up of mountain grown apple cider!

Another great reason to load up your family and friends and come on out to the Festival Sunday.

Apple Festival Oct. 15th!

Apple Festival Beard Contest!

Books at Apple Festival

The seventh annual Apple Festival is Sunday!  Palomar Author, Barbara Anne Waite’s grandfather planted many apple trees over 100 years ago.  Barb published her grandmother’s journal in two books.  They will be available Annual Palomar Mountain State Park Apple Festival:

Sunday, Oct. 15th 11 A.M. – 3 P.M. Free event!

Free apple cider and mountain Music

Carriage Ride

Conference Center donated hot chili and cornbread for sale

Barb is off at a family reunion but her husband Curt will be there selling “Elsie’s Mountain” and “Elsie-Arizona Teacher 1913-1916” memoir book. Special Apple Festival price 2 books $25.00. They will donate $2.00 from each sale to Palomar Mountain State Park. Yes, some of the cider will be made from “Elsie apples”- planted by Barb’s great-grandfather in 1904, and still producing apples.

Fun activities for children of all ages.

Apple Festival Oct. 15th!

Apple Festival Beard Contest!

We have a new neighbor looking forward to closing his escrow today.  He lives in Tustin.  Yesterday he had his car packed up with new things to furnish his cabin.  Then he was notified that there was to be an evacuation because of the fire raging close by.  He unpacked his car and packed up important papers, change of clothes, eye glasses, prescriptions and his parrot, Lulu.

When I talked to him and see the news, it made me think of our last evacuation on Palomar.  Many of the folks impacted by these recent fires, didn’t have much time to take anything at all. Here is a post from 2014 with tips that could be helpful to be prepared:  Do you have your ‘Stuff’ photographed? Insurance review?

Like to join us?!?  Palomar Mountain Home School Kids Club has a fun event planned tomorrow. I was thinking there might be some Mountain News friends who could join in on the last-minute fun.

We are to be there at 11 am and go in as a group.  Free admission.  ($4.00 to ride a train).

2017 Rendezvous in Poway

Everyone is invited to Rendezvous in Poway at Old Poway Park in Poway, California. Visit over 15 living history encampments demonstrating life during California’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century and civil war eras. Meet real cowboys, pioneers, mountain men and women, fur traders, gunslingers, and soldiers. Hop aboard the train, watch gun-fighting demonstrations, view handmade items for sale at the Boardwalk Craft Market, and pan for gold in a unique way near the banks of Rattlesnake Creek.

Click for the details.  The event is through the weekend.

Please call to meet up

Bonnie Phelps – with some great Mountain moms and kids!

Leaves are just starting to turn and it is perfect crisp and cool weather for working outside.  There are still funds for free chipping!  Now is a great time to clean up your property or leave the work to someone else.

On the Fire Safe Council Website you can click on the  link for Local Resources who all do a great job.

Then, get your piles prepared with the cut ends facing a road where the pickup and chipper can drive right up to chip.

Then go on line and fill out the simple form to schedule the FREE chipping.  Be sure to state at the top of the form that “the job is on Palomar Mountain”.

Here is the form with a link to follow for free chipping.

Happy Fall y’all!

Bonnie Phelps, Resident Realtor

Palomar Mountain Fire Safe Council

General Annual Meeting & Board Election

All community members are welcome to attend the Palomar Mountain Fire

Safe Council (PMFSC) General Annual Meeting on 10/28/17 at 10 AM in the

PMVFD Board Room at Palomar Mountain Fire Station #79.

Board member elections will be held at this meeting. Board members serve

for 3 years and must attend at least 50% of all Board meetings held on the

4th Saturday of each month.

If you are interested in serving on the PMFSC Board contact us at

firesafe@mypalomarmountain.com with your name, address and contact

information before October 15, 2017. Prospective Board members must

attend the PMFSC General Annual Meeting on 10/28/17 to be eligible for

election to the Board.

There is a price reduction waiting for you at this nine acres on Conifer Road.

Sit a spell ’round the fire and dream a while.  Take in the beauty of this land.

Enjoy a charming, custom container ‘Tiny House’ or pull out all the stops and build your dream with a very private, peaceful view over the forest seeing the sun set on the Pacific.

Bundle up and arrive in time for your first glimpse of Fall Colors on the mountain!

Let’s go see!

Bonnie Phelps, Resident Realtor

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