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Week of April 12th – April 18th, 2024
Photo: Al Matta Weather: Highs of 48 – 66 & Lows of 31 – 41 Tax Day: As Benjamin Franklin once said…”In this world, nothing is certain except death & taxes”. While death is certain for all of us, not all of us actually pay taxes. About 60% of all households in the U.S. pay…
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Week of April 5th – April 11th, 2024
Photo: Jon King www.sanjacjon.com Weather: Winter Storm Warning Friday Highs of 30 – 67 & Lows of 19 – 44 Pacific Crest Trail: The Trail: In anticipation of the town filling with hikers, here’s a mini-course on everything you wondered about the Pacific Crest Trail. First of all, everyone refers to it as the PCT.…
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Week of March 29th – April 4th, 2024
Photo: Jon King www.sanjacjon.com Weather: Rain & snow expected this weekend. Highs of 38 – 65 & Lows of 30 – 43 Easter: Easter, whose name comes from the Germanic goddess of spring named “Eostre” is a Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ in the first century 33 AD. It is also referred…
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Week of March 22nd – March 28th, 2024
Photo by Frank Colosi Weather: Rain & snow expected this weekend. Highs of 35 – 56 & Lows of 27 – 33 Moss: I know…it doesn’t sound very interesting, but MOSS can be fascinating. And there’s no debating its beauty. With all the moisture we’ve had, you don’t have to go far to find moss…
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Week of March 15th – March 21st, 2024
Weather: Highs of 43 – 61 & Lows of 30 – 41 St. Patrick’s Day: The history of St. Patrick’s Day is fascinating. St. Patrick was not Irish, he was English. Born in Britian in 390 when England was under Roman rule, he was kidnapped by Irish pirates at age 16, and held as a…
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Week of March 8th – March 14th, 2024
Photo by Frank Colosi www.frankcolosiphotography.com Weather: Wet weather in the week ahead. Highs of 53 – 60 & Lows of 34 – 39 Day-Light-Savings: Twice a year we go back and forth about the benefits and challenges of changing our clocks. Why can’t we decide? In 1916, Germany enacted Daylight Savings Time during WWI in…
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Week of March 1st – March 7th, 2024
Photo by Paul Leverenz Weather: Wet weather in the week ahead. Highs of 39 – 52 & Lows of 30 – 36We gain 13 minutes of daylight this week with earlier sunrises and later sunsets. March is here! Besides the anticipation of the end of winter, this is going to be a busy March. We…
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Week of Feb. 23rd – Feb. 29th, 2024
View from San Jacinto Peak: Feb. 12th Photo by Jon King - SanJacJon.com Weather: Highs of 52 – 60 & Lows of 33 – 40We gain 12 minutes of daylight this week with earlier sunrises and later sunsets. The Moon: We all know there are thousands of man-made satellites in space, but the Moon is our…
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Week of Feb. 16th – Feb. 22nd, 2024
Photo by Frank Colosi - FrankColosiPhotography.com Weather: Highs of 44 – 58 & Lows of 34 – 39 President’s Day: Washington’s birthday was celebrated starting in 1800 (the year after Washington died) but it was not made an official federal holiday until 1879. In1979 President Nixon passed the “Uniform Monday Holiday Act” and the celebration of…