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Word a Week Challenge: Worker

April 25, 2013 by tchistorygal

I found this A Word A Week Challenge browsing your websites. Workers, are they professional, blue-collar, amateurs learning a hobby? Are workers those who work outside or inside? Is work physical or mental, or both? Genesis tells us that six days God worked, and on the seventh day God rested. I’m sure his work involved a bit of thought and creativity as well as some pretty heavy lifting – even if He was just filling craters with water and […]

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Categories: agriculture, Challenges, Experience, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: A Word A Week Challenge, Marsha Lee, photography, social studies lesson, workers

A Valleycation Date in Kingsburg and Fresno California

April 10, 2013 by tchistorygal

Vince and I scheduled today as a valleycation date. I love that word. My friend, Mary, coined it. It is like a stacation – a vacation where you stay at home and enjoy what you have at home. A valleycation is when you visit locations in the San Joaquin Valley (where we live) that you have always wanted to see, but never had the time-or took the time to visit like a tourist would. We left home about 11:00 and […]

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Categories: agriculture, architecture, Experience, food, Photography, plants • Tags: Baldassare Forestiere, Fresno California, Kingsburg California, Marsha Lee, stay at home vacation, Underground Gardens

Planting Strawberries

March 26, 2013 by tchistorygal

Last year a friend of mine gave me 81 strawberry plants. Fortunately, I have a big yard. I planted all 81 plants. Most of them lived. Some of them had babies. This year I had to transplant babies. It’s hard to know how many holes to dig until you start digging up the babies. What looks like one big plant may end up being five little plants. Five little plants may end up being 10 little plants. Yesterday, most of the […]

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Categories: agriculture, Experience • Tags: planted in March, Posting with Dragon Naturally, strawberries

I'd be he's going to be a womanizer, too! No bull!

Happy Cows of California? That’s a Bunch of Bulls

February 27, 2013 by tchistorygal

I took my friend Jean home after our walk, and fortunately had my camera along. Fields of grazing land in the foothills of Tulare County is several thousand acres. The bulls live the life of Riley. Cows, that’s another story. Dairies pack those poor milky females into a few hundred acres with no grass – mud/dirt only. Cows have to watch what they eat so the milk tastes right – so no tempting grass Does that sound familiar women? Bulls, […]

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Categories: agriculture, animals, California, Experience, Tulare County • Tags: foothill ranching, raising bulls in Tulare County

Spring Inspires Gardening Chores in California

February 26, 2013 by tchistorygal

My husband, like Manny, hibernates in the winter. As soon as the days get longer and the temperature gets to about 65, V comes back to life and goes into hyperactive work mode. He also has talent to go with the spurts of energy. This weekend the sun called to him, and said, “It’s time to think about planting.” V loves to design landscaped areas, but has never been interested in gardening – UNTIL I retired. Now he wants to […]

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Categories: agriculture, Experience, Family, plants • Tags: gardening, raised vegetable beds, yard chores

Meet Margaret Sanger, named for a historic person. Do you know why Margaret is famous?

More Running P

January 15, 2013 by tchistorygal

Mike Pace was a history teacher. Sally was a high school counselor that raised more scholarships than almost anyone in the nation – per student. She was one of three in the NATION!!!! That’s how we all met. They retired a few years ago, and they both keep more than busy doing projects. They have created Running P Ranch as a place for others to enjoy with them. They host weddings, Kiwanis parties, and many other events. Yesterday I posted […]

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Categories: agriculture, animals, architecture, art, California, Experience, people, Photography, plants, Tulare County • Tags: events, fun, Marsha Lee, Running P Ranch, Tulare County, weddings

Walnuts Change Clothes for the Winter

December 8, 2012 by tchistorygal

I hated walnuts until I moved to Tulare County. We couldn’t have been relocated into a better place than when my first husband and I moved here August 1, 1985, a month prior to the beginning of walnut harvesting season. After about 3 months of blistering hot weather, and by that I mean temperatures of 105+ F or 40.55 C, walnuts are ready to come down from their lofty perches. We rented an old adobe house centered between two walnut […]

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Categories: agriculture, California, Experience, Featured Blog, Photography, plants, Tulare County • Tags: Agriculture, Algarve Blog, fall, featured blog, photography, Tulare County, walnuts

The End of Fall

December 6, 2012 by tchistorygal

Tulare County, approximately the size of Connecticut, has two climates. One is mountainous – the Sierra Nevada, home of the Sequoia National Park. The other, home of over 400,000 cows, is a temperate, farming-friendly valley. Four days ago as I drove towards the largest town, Visalia, I passed two grape vineyards, one with yellow leaves, and one with bright red. The sun was just breaking through the clouds. It had rained the day before, and everything sparkled like animated ornaments […]

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Categories: agriculture, California, Photography, plants, Tulare County • Tags: fall, grape leaves, Marsha Ingrao, photography, Tulare County

Pike Place Market

November 21, 2012 by tchistorygal

Traveling to conferences often allows attendees the opportunity to explore new places. National Council for the Social Studies moves their conference each year to a different part of the country allowing social studies teachers to learn geography as well as history, civics, economics and all the social studies. In Seattle I ate in some top Diners and Dives restaurants, rode to the top of the Space Needle, got lost in downtown several times, and best of all, went to the […]

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Categories: agriculture, Photography, shopping, Travel, Washington State • Tags: California, farmers' market, food, photography, Pike Place Market, Seattle, social studies, Washington

Spiky green vegetable. Can you guess what it is?

Weekly Photo Challenge: Green

November 20, 2012 by tchistorygal

We found this at the Pike’s Street Market in Seattle, which is marvelous, by the way. I had never seen one, so I wondered if some of you green connoisseurs might recognize this interesting vegetable. Here’s the recipe, but somehow I missed the name in the excitement of filling the screen with little Christmas Tree vegetables. So guess away. P.S. I’m not the only one who likes to photograph these exotic veggies. Click on the link and you will learn what […]

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Categories: agriculture, Travel, Washington State, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Christmas Tree, Horticulture, Pike's Street Market, Seattle, Travel, Vegetable

Mowing the Cotton Field

November 17, 2012 by tchistorygal

When the mountain stopped me and asked me to take a picture of it, I had no idea that right across the street something was begging me even more to take its picture. NO, it took more than a mere field of cotton. You guessed it – farm equipment doing its job. It looks small and innocent enough from this vantage point. Wait till you get closer! You can see why the air gets so dusty in the Central Valley. […]

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Categories: agriculture, clouds, mountains, Photography • Tags: Central Valley, Cotton, fall, Mower, photography

Can you guess what lush crop is growing at the foot of the foothills?

Under the Grapevine

November 13, 2012 by tchistorygal

Grapevine is a place, a town at the southern tip of the San Joaquin Valley. I learned when I first moved here that when you start to cross over Tejon Pass you say, “I’m crossing over the Grapevine.” It is quite a climb in just a few miles to the 4, 000 foot pass. In the summer you are warned to turn off your air-conditioning so that the car doesn’t overheat. That was not a problem on Saturday morning. My problem […]

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Categories: agriculture, California, clouds, mountains, Photography, Travel • Tags: Agriculture, Grapevine, mountains, photography, San Joaquin Valley, Tejon Pass

Photoshopped Foothill Peach Tree Orchard

November 9, 2012 by tchistorygal

Yesterday you voted on possible covers for a Kiwanis magazine published in the foothill communities of Woodlake, Three Rivers, and Exeter,California. Thank you so much for your input. At one time I took a series of fruit tree pictures, and I couldn’t find them. I did find one picture, but I hated the sky. So I tried a Leanne. I tried to made major changes to it. Please tell me whether you think my work is believable, and if it […]

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Categories: agriculture, art, California, clouds, Photography, plants, Tulare County • Tags: brush tool, clone tool, color tool, fruit trees, Kiwanis, lasso tool, peach orchard, Photoshop

What’s Happening …In The Foothills

November 8, 2012 by tchistorygal

I NEED your opinions!!! I am so excited. When I voted on Tuesday I ran into my friends, Sally and Alice who used to work with me when I was teaching. I love voting. As we chatted afterwards, and Sally asked me if I wanted to contribute a spring photograph for the cover of the magazine published by Kiwanis Club. You all know I said YES! So now the problem comes of WHICH photograph of the tri-town area do we […]

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Categories: agriculture, animals, people, Photography, plants, Tulare County • Tags: Central California, Foothill communities, spring, Tulare County, vote for favorite, Woodlake

Document, document, document. We were here.

Ka’anapali Coffee Farms

November 4, 2012 by tchistorygal

Knowing that my husband is a realtor helps explain to you why this excursion is a must every time we go to Maui. We look at houses. No, we are not in the market to buy multi-million dollar houses even in Central California, let alone Hawaii, but once a realtor… The deal is that you build your dream home, but the coffee farm stays. There are several types of coffee here. We hit the jackpot this year. Fooled you – […]

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Categories: agriculture, beach, Experience, Hawaii, Photography, plants • Tags: Central California, Coffee, coffee plantation, Hawaii, Maui, photography, real estste

Packing Table Grapes

September 29, 2012 by tchistorygal

My friend’s son went off to college in Louisiana. His sophomore English teacher asked the class what product comes from sheep.“Cotton?” his fellow student answered. At least he didn’t answer grapes. I don’t excuse the teacher for asking such a kindergarten question, but the answer clearly indicates that there is a vast divide between the American public and the agricultural productes they consume.Even for those of us who live in the heart of agribusiness most of the time when […]

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Categories: agriculture, Experience, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: agribusiness, Agriculture, California Council for the Social Studies, Civil Rights, Delano, grapes, Tulare County, uvas

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Category Archives: agriculture

A Valleycation Date in Kingsburg and Fresno California

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Planting Strawberries

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Happy Cows of California? That’s a Bunch of Bulls

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Spring Inspires Gardening Chores in California

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More Running P

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Walnuts Change Clothes for the Winter

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The End of Fall

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Green

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Mowing the Cotton Field

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Under the Grapevine

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Photoshopped Foothill Peach Tree Orchard

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What’s Happening …In The Foothills

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Ka’anapali Coffee Farms

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