From over the Hill . . .

November 6, 2011

What a busy day yesterday was!!!!!!!!

The Service Organizations are a mainstay of our Communities here in Scott Valley . . . and they were very visible in making the Veteran's Parade fun for all . . .

Darlene Heninger, Dave Harrison & Marilyn Seward of
the Scott Valley Chamber of Commerce
serving free cookies

David Sutter, Steve & Sharron Farrington,
Jimmy Sutter (CHI Construction), Winnie Bradford, Julie Sutter
serving free hot dogs . . .

I had one to keep up my strength!

Deniss Martinez, Josh Theofanides & their helper Cale Morrill
of Etna High School Interact Club*
joined with the Rotary Club of Scott Valley
to serve free chili.

*The Interact Club's Advisor, Diane Pomeroy told me Interact is Rotary International’s service club for young people. The Club is involved in both Community & International Service and their work helps them in ~ Developing leadership skills and personal integrity
~ Demonstrating helpfulness and respect for others ~ Understanding the value of individual responsibility and work well done ~ Advancing international understanding and goodwill. GREAT ATTRIBUTES we could all use more of!

Diane said they are happy to help other Community Organizations in any way they can. Sooooo, if your Organization or Club needs help on an event, call Diane 468-2707 and she will get the young people involved.

Delta Christ, Ray and Mary Waller
snuggling together to keep warm
as they awaited the beginning of the Parade

Announcer Mike Bryan
and his 'support staff' ready
to begin the festivities

Presentation of the Colours and
singing of the Star-spangled Banner
by Victoria Gamache . . .
incredible voice and
very community-oriented young lady.

Chief Larry Hicks in the old fire engine

Sign for a very special display
at the Etna Museum


Unfortunately I had the camera a little low
and cut off the top name on this display poster:
Glory Ann (Colt) Hurlimann Jenner
and Lucille Goodwin Webster

Lucille was enjoying herself

Other Display Posters which honoured
Local Women in the Military:

Delores, Edna Mae and Deanist

Melanie & Karina

Mercedes & Brandi

Reminder: On Friday, November 11th, the members of Perry Harris Post 260 will be honouring our departed Service men and women at these local Cemeteries :

Callahan Cemetery at 10:00 a.m.
Etna Cemetery at 11:00 a.m.
Ft. Jones Cemetery at Noon

Me photographing Mel, our local Photographer

and

Mel photographing me . . .

back at Wildwood Crossing for
a bite of lunch and hot drink to warm me up . . .
during the Parade it felt like
the fog had come in from the San Francisco Bay!

Watching some family fun . . .

These two young ones were delighting
in covering up their Dad with leaves
in front of the Library!

Leaf-man liveth!

A quick stop at the Methodist Church's Artist Doings . . .

Jeanie Elam Dickinson
showing her work . . .

then back to painting

Diana Callahan

Skip Hanna, Caricature Artist . . .

'the subject' . . .

Suzanne Peckham

Fancy Shoes

Cheryl Faulkner . . .
Her card says:
Photography for parties, family reunions, births, etc.
and
Life Story . . . a customized book of your life story!

Her website for contact information

Peter Wright working on a painting
from a photo Joanne Smith Mello
sent of the remodeling in 1939
of her Dad's Service Station in Etna.
You can view all the photos here.

This is the one he is working from . . .

at the bottom right you can see a little
of the photo I printed out for him to use.

This will be a fun project to follow!

All this accomplished and it was only 12:30 pm!!!! At 1:00 I needed to be at Serena's office for the 2nd part of our Wordpress Class on building a website or blogsite . . .

Classmate Ruth Johnson
showing us her Family Blog homepage

Serena Travis, our Instructor,
showing Gary Pollard how to transfer
his present website to Wordpress . . .

stay tuned for this 'From Over the Hill' site
to eventually be 'Wordpressed'!!!!!!!

I called Eb to tell him Serena was helping me figure out something on the site and would be a little longer. He said, "We have guests who stopped by, so don't tarry!"

We planned to attend the Cowboy Poetry and Wednesday Night Band music at the Avery Theatre, beginning at 7:00, so I finished up and headed back home.

What a delightful surprise to walk in and find the Cowboy Poet himself . . . Bill Roberts, and his long-time logging friend, Lee West!

I couldn't imagine how they found us . . .

Bill Roberts, Cowboy Poet and Packer

Lee West, Logging friend to many

The story goes that they stopped in at Wildwood Crossing as the show poster said they could buy a ticket there. No more tickets available there, but the ladies called Eb to see if we still had tickets for sale and sent Bill & Lee around the corner, past the old red barn, to the house of many colours. They were as surprised as Eb when he opened the door . . . and old friends greeted each other!

Bill had been in a serious horse accident this summer but has made an amazing comeback. We asked him for a poem or story or something. You can listen in here . . . Note: The link will open in a new Browser window. Once the recording begins, just click on the 'Nov. 5, 2011 Etna, USA' Browser window to come back to this page to see the photos. (adjust the sound on your computer)

His 3rd story was augmented with this . . .

We talked and laughed with Bill and Lee until about 5:15, then they headed over to meet the other Poets for dinner. We ate a bite at home and got to the Theatre at 6:30 so we could visit with friends before the Performance began.

Greg Lindholm, the Theatre's sound-man did an incredible job. Poems, music, poems, music . . . The Wednesday Night Band was in top form and Don Meek's rendition from 'Ghost Riders in the Sky' . . . to 'Ghost Chickens in the Sky' had everyone falling out of their seats laughing.

There is nothing like spending time with friends enjoying good conversation, laughter, music, and all the creative arts.

In joy!

Che'usa

Soooooo many activities
are here for us locally . . .
why go anywhere else????

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