It’s a brand new 2022. Beore we leave the Christmas Season completely I wanted to share this little bit of fun. Being a landlord is rarely what it is cracked up to be. I have been pretty lucky myself but have heard horror stories and have one or two of my own. Hopefully none of …
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The closure of Atterdag College surely marked the end of an era. All through the 1930s there had been subtle indications that the Solvang residents were leaning more heavily towards their Danish roots. Solvang’s Danish population, at that time, was about 2/3 of the whole, but that number had been steadily declining, almost from the …
Welcome again faithful readers. Can you believe Christmas is in just 10 days? WOW! With this week’s blog I will be launching a new feature. From 1991 until 2012 there was a television show on PBS, at least in California, appropriately named, California’s Gold. The show was hosted by, and was the vision of, a …
Every neighborhood has one. He’s the guy that puts his Christmas decorations up over the Thanksgiving weekend…and takes all four days to do it. Like he’s got nothing better to do for four days. In 1989 National Lampoon even gave him a name, Clark Griswold. Cars will slow down and watch him work. The men …
Good day faithful readers. I hope each of you enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. I know my online bookie is thankful that I bet on Detroit and Las Vegas. He would have been even more thankful had I bet on New Orleans, but c’mon, did I honestly think the Bills couldn’t cover a four and …