Palomar Mountain News

Fancy photography with a drone was on the list for a few properties. I knew one of our mountain neighbors, Danny Cruz, flew drones and reached out to him. Well, Danny said his good friend Levi Dixon is the BEST. So, I staged all, ran around before he arrived to have the lights on, drapes open and everything as good as it was going to get. We took off and it was ‘lights, cameras and lots of action’. He shot five different properties in ten hours. Yes, we ate lunch and dinner on the run! I counted eight sets of stairs we ran up and down many times to get the perfect lighting and just the right angles. He offered to drive so it was my first time in a Tesla Model 3 – so much fun.

Levi pulled out a couple different drones at Round House Ranch. This fancy drone flew out through the forest for a close-up of the Observatory view and caught the attention of a few hawks. One swooped in, thinking it was a noisy option for lunch. Since Mr. Drone wasn’t the least bit tasty, the hawk went on his way. I finally turned on my camera and caught the return flight, thankful the drone was doing just fine. The hawk? We’re guessing he found an even better option for lunch.

Please stay tuned. Three of these properties have been off the market for a month or so but will be back up, better than ever in the next couple days.

Bonnie Phelps, having a blast in Real Estate!

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Beautiful pic from Mike Pique who was treated to a rainbow this afternoon on East Grade Road. We had the rain up on State Park Road. This video for you was 36 seconds but the rain? Much longer! Think it lasted maybe even two minutes. Wish I could post this as a scratch and sniff:

Bonnie Phelps, yes, dancing in the rain!

The past few times I’ve been in the post office, Yasmira is the smiling face working hard behind the window. She lives in Escondido and normally works out of the Pauma office. She comes up when she is assigned to Palomar. The goal is to arrive about 1:30 and stay until 4:30. However, the Pauma and Valley Center Post Offices are both short-handed so they are doing the best they can. Sometimes they are only able to put the mail up but not have the window open because they are needed back in Pauma.

Yasmira said when she is working she tries to put as many packages as possible in the available lockers. However, some of the other staff might not, as it is much quicker to use the yellow cards and they sometimes need to get back down the mountain as soon as they can.

If you are needing the window open, you might call the mountain post office first to see if someone is there. 760-742-3044

They are hoping that they have applicants to fill available job openings real soon for Palomar, Pauma and Valley Center Post Offices.

Apply on line, more job info here.

Isn’t this an awesome photo? Thank you to Mike Pique! He took this pic off his deck a few days ago. Out on the East Grade, he was looking southeast when the storm passed by, just missing his property. Hooray for all the rain that part of the mountain was treated to!

Bonnie Phelps, watching out for the next storm

One thing I’m pretty good at are typos. Thanks to several of you who pointed out my most recent goof. (Well, it did make it through spell check!) Even though I read that post several times today between calls and appointments, I don’t think I would have caught it in a million years. Thank you for your sharp eyes.

I can hear a marketing mentor many years ago saying “avoid words with seven letters or more” and ‘”Sesame Street It” by encouraging single subjects and keeping things simple.

My goof had 9 letters. If it had been the intended word, it would have had 10. So, I decided to Sesame Street It and change the goof to “many” on the third line here. Yes, many people are still waiting for the perfect property to make their dream come true on Palomar.

More coming up real soon!

Bonnie Phelps eating Humble Pie

(If there are typos in this post, I’m just going to blame it on the late hour! Goodnight everyone!)