Posts from ‘October, 2008’

Here’s a new series. Agents are posting Washoe Valley home tours on the net so we might as well take a peek at the nabe’s digs…

Well, I let us all down this fall and didn’t get out to photo any good fall colors although on our way to the Nevada Day parade tomorrow, I just might get some good cottonwoods along south Eastlake Blvd. Even mother Nature let us down, I think, the long, dry, hot summer and fall [...]

Traveling Nevada has just initiated an easy web-based service to provide road conditions in Nevada with links to California roads, construction and ski reports here at nvroads/mobi/
You can bookmark this page in your mobilephone to get updates on the road.

Washoe County has nominated:
“The county’s first nomination is the last 320 acres of the Winters Ranch and 1,500 acre-feet of water in northern Washoe Valley to protect wildlife, watershed and scenic values. The pastures are between Bowers Mansion Regional Park and U.S. 395.”
The money would come from land swaps in Southern Nevada according to this [...]

Hillary sends in this offer:
“Mature woman, N/S, N/D w/ no pets, avail. for petsitting/ housesitting. Exp., responsible, reliable transportation. Will trade temp. housing for petsitting/ housesitting.  references. Contact Hillary
voice mail # 1 800 514 8022 or email  hillary60231@aol.com.”

Kurt Kuznicki has some nifty photos of his recent visit to Washoe Lake State Park this month on his blog “Nevada Outside”. Included is one of the Gazebo at the top of the Dead Man’s Creek trail, a couple of fall color shots and a nice wide angle of Washoe Lake.
He also visited Little Washoe [...]

The Nevada Sagebrush, the student newspaper for UNR, has an article on pumpkin carving, eating and buying. They report pumpkins are again available at our own Nevada Lynn’s Emporium in Washoe City at 435 US 395. They are open from 9 to 6 every day. Nevada Lynn’s always has a nice fall display and is [...]

Greta Anderson wrote a great poem last winter about the equine life here in Washoe Valley and a reader recently wrote in looking for it. We have amassed alot of info here on the site and specific things can be hard to locate. Here’s how I did it.
1. I clicked on the Classic Pages button [...]

The Dept of Conservation has a nice write-up and photo slide-show on Washoe Lake State Park on their website. Here’s the text:
“Washoe Lake State Park is beautiful this time of year. The water level is down, most of the campers are gone, but the views remain stunning. A mid-week, late-afternoon stroll through the park yielded [...]

Friday night accumulations were about an inch on the valley floor from an early storm that brought a feeleing of winter that seemed to leapfrog fall. Cottonwood and aspen trees are still mostly green under a dusting of white. The cold (27 degrees Sat. nite) nights will surely bring the fall colors on in [...]