Having some malfunction problems, unable to upload photographs, stay tuned. Massive bot attacks, too.

Tim

Here is a Tuesday tid-bit for you. On September 1, I had assembled the calendar. Then, the weather turned brutally hot, so outdoor activities over the Labor Day Weekend was not really an option. In an attempt to be somewhat productive, I thought I would get a head start on the 2024 calendar. Then I reviewed the 2023 calendar layout, and it really was not to my liking. Back to square one. Seven of the originally planned photographs for the 2023 calendar were tossed aside and replaced.

The above photograph of the 4th of July parade in Susanville taken in 1905, was one that was scrapped. Back in the late 1800s and early 1900s there were occasions when the town did not acknowledge the 4th of July. Other times, the community would put on a grandiose celebration.

Tim

Here it is the middle of August and it is already beginning of the school year. Seasoned readers will recall that school usually began right after Labor Day. The Westwood School year in 1928 started on. September 17.

Just a follow up on the Susanville/Durbin Nursery located on Richmond Road, at the present site of Diamond View School. When the Lassen National Forest leased the property from Lassen County beginning in July 1928, the rental fee was $80 a year.

Tim

This morning’s post of the Westwood Hospital went through as scheduled. So I am testing to see if this will.

Tim

The server states it is working, But this be the true test. Tim

This is a little off beat. The above recipe was from June Moller, one of my instructors at Menopause Manor.  She would give those of the second floor of the Lassen County Courthouse a jar at Christmas. They are bit on the spicy side. June’s mother-in-law Hazel was born in Grasshopper Valley and had a post office named for her.

Another tidbit, once upon a time, the county recorder, would record most anything in Official Records. Not only one might stumble across poetry, but recipes, too.

Tim

Actually, I had something ready to go , but due to some unforeseen  circumstances I had to pull it for a later date.

In a conversation on Sunday about the Purdy Brothers logging episode and the one log load. I happen to witness my Dad’s last one log load. It was a huge sugar pine located near Poison Lake, i.e. Swains Hole. For those who knew my father, lets just say this was a very colorful episode. One party that was not pleased was the Sierra Pacific’s mill in Susanville. They no longer had the sawing capacity to handle such a large log and had to dynamite it in to two pieces.

Tim

P.S. – A piece of evidence was found many years later in Dawson Arnold’s basement!

In 1928, Bank of America bailed out the Lassen Industrial Bank. The latter was near financial collapse due to the outstanding loans with  the Honey Lake farmers who were heavily invested in Leon Bly’s failed Eagle Lake enterprise.  However, it was not until the end of 1931, that Bank of America got around to replace the Lassen Industrial Bank signage with their own.

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There is no doubt that 2020 has presented many challenges. For me, it was on October 27, 2019 that was a preview of the year ahead. It was on that date that I experienced my “fall from grace” and broke my leg. Before there was the “shelter in place,” scenario, I had three months practice at it, before I finally I was able to navigate on my own. Onward ho, for better things to come!

Tim