I met up with President Martin Van Buren yesterday a little after 11 AM at the Nevada City Growers’ Market, looking really fit after all these years. What a nice guy! Not puffed up — prideful or vain — at all, especially considering that he was the first president born an American citizen (not…
Follow this link to a striking YouTube video of many closeup scenes from the Auburn fire, compiled by “On Scene Action Media.” The video is not legally “embedable” here, but can be seen in full on YouTube. Notice at about 6 minutes into the video are some closeups of the helicopter bucket brigade dipping…
A Yubanet reader posted this link to the Nevada County Scanner, which — at the moment — is picking up a lot of the chatter from first responders to the Auburn fire, now in progress: Free video streaming by Ustream Note Jeff Pelline’s good report on the Auburn fire here.
We joined some dear new friends — along with a hundred or so other Bacchic revelers — for “BBQ and the Blues” at Sierra Starr Vineyard last evening. Good wine, good conversation (until the good music got loud), and good food. Very casual, with most people bringing their own lawn and beach chairs, picnicing…