From: Anandamayi Baker
Hello Everyone,
Looking forward to seeing you with our new Winter & Spring Hours for Mother’s Kitchen and Palomar Mountain General Store. Wishing you a wonderful 2013!
Mother’s Kitchen
Saturday & Sunday 9-4
Thursday & Friday 11-4
Palomar Mountain General Store
Saturday & Sunday 9-5
Monday thru Friday 11-5
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Some of you knew Bill and Grace Leibold when they built their ‘Ship House’ on Birch Hill and lived up here for many years. I couldn’t resist passing on this message and link from Bill. I am quite certain we should have some of these Roboplows ’round the mountain:
From: William Leibold
I just viewed your “The Most Beautiful View – snow scene” news and the Roboplow came to mind; just think, with this, Palomar folks could sit by the fire and plow their drive etc !
Trust you enjoyed a pleasant Christmas and only the best, throughout 2013.
Bill Leibold
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Come up and claim your view!!! There are new pix waiting for you after yesterday’s walk in the snow. The sellers just reduced it to be closer to their growing grandkids. Who is the new owner of this delightful Life Above the Clouds?
I’ll have the Hot Chocolate on… let’s go see!
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From: Elizabeth LaPlant
We were so thrilled to get a call from Mark Merrill. He found Roxie in Mendenhall Valley. She was dehydrated, extremely skinny, moderately weak, but with no injuries and seemingly in great condition.
When we picked her up on Saturday from Mother’s Market, Roxy she was still a little disoriented. To be expected since she spent 4 nights in the snow while temperatures were in the teens, and without food nor water.
Mark said, with all of the stray dogs running around Palomar mountain he usually chases off anything that comes on the property. He stated “There was something different about her disposition”. Mark brought her into his cabin, fed her some cat food, and she curled up on his couch for a long deserved rest. She is now back to her old self, making an exceptionally speedy recovery.
Thank you to everyone on the mountain for all your prayers and support. What a great community we have!
From: Teri Simas
You have no idea just how happy this makes me! I’ve been praying that Roxy would find her way home, and woke up at 2am last night thinking about her. Having lost dogs on the mountain and then finding them with the help of the Palomar community, I know all too well the anxiety and terror involved looking for them. I’m SO glad this story has a happy ending 🙂
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Here is a wonderful new book with some history on Palomar that you are sure to enjoy! Thank you Vincent!
From: Vincent Rossi
Click for an order form for my new book, Valleys of Dreams. It’s a collection of 39 local history stories covering 12 north San Diego County communities, including two stories from Palomar Mountain history, the life of Ralph Tillinghast, and the delivery of the “Big Eye” to Palomar Observatory. Thank you again for your help with my research on the Palomar stories.
The book is also available through our website, www.story-seekers.com . To purchase just click on the “Local History” tab.
Thank you!
Vincent Rossi
StorySeekers
858-245-8258
PO Box 27343, San Diego, CA 92198-1343
www.story-seekers.com
Member, Association of Professional Genealogists (www.apgen.org)
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As an avid member of My Country Club, Frank has dreamed of a cabin on Palomar for years. The A-Frame on East Grade had his name on it being next to National Forest. But, there was work to be done to make it a place his wife, Vicki, would also enjoy for weekend retreats. Frank quickly put the ‘Cabinator’ to work moving out the ‘occupants’ and doing everything possible to ensure no more free-loaders! Thanks to tips from neighbors and great contractors, they are now living off the grid successfully with their generator and propane system. The icing on the cake for Frank was letting Vicki plan and pick out everything ‘cabin’ to furnish and decorate their much-loved home-away-from-home. When Frank and Vicki aren’t at the cabin, he works in pharmaceuticals and Vicki in insurance, both looking forward to the next time they can come up, check the trail cams, and share their cabin with family and friends.
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Many of you know Bjorn and Mary Ellen Rafto, cabin owners out on Birch Hill. Mary Ellen had a job offer she couldn’t refuse for a couple of years in Italy, so Bjorn and their daughter Rigel, went along too. I thought you might enjoy hearing their lovely ‘Christmas Rose’, all the way from Italy, to start off your New Year on Palomar Mountain.
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Click to “Read All About It” from David Ross, editor of the Valley Center Road Runner.
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From: Elizabeth LaPlant
We are hoping someone comes across our dog, Roxy.
My name is Elizabeth, my father is Mike LaPlant with property out on Conifer Road.
We were up on the mountain this weekend, our dog Roxy is nowhere to be found.
She went outside about 12am New Years Eve, and have not seen her since.
Roxy is our very much-loved, old dog. Maybe she just choose this time to walk out in the woods, curl up under a big oak tree, and meet her maker. We’d like to find her regardless.
-14 year old
-Akita mix
-45lbs.
-Tan and White
-Pink Collar, with a heart-shaped tag with the name “Roxy”
If she isn’t sitting by the fire at someone’s cabin with them thinking she was a stray, maybe someone will be hiking through the forest and come across her pink collar some day and remember this post. All help is sincerely appreciated.
Thanks to all,
Elizabeth LaPlant 9four9 8four2 90four2
Joe and Carol Dirks celebrated their 70th birthday year rehabbing a very tired fixer they picked up in Salton Sea. It is a fun place to go and soak up the sun when the temperature drops at their home in RB. But, it was about finished! They had been trolling Palomar listings for several years and when they saw Arbolito Lodge, they stepped up to the challenge. Level the floor 6 inches? Get power reconnected after being off for 8 years? Move the critters out? No problem! Let’s see, they already replaced the broken windows, the old wood stove works great, their new electric blanket is much appreciated when it’s snowy, and Carol has everything sparkling and cute inside. When you stop in, she might even have some of her yummy cookies waiting for you! They are having a wonderful time and love their newest project on the Mountain top!
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