Category Archives: Life

Barn Owl Family

By doug | Published: July 17, 2010

I think of the book “Owls in the Family” often these days, which is pretty amazing considering my only exposure to it is a teacher reading it to the class when I was in elementary school. The reason is the family of barn owls residing in the owl box in our back yard. The box [...]

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Another small quake

By doug | Published: May 4, 2008

Like I said before, little earthquakes happen all the time around here, but it does seem like I’m noticing more of these small tremors than I have in the past. The red square indicates a magnitude 3.7 event that occurred 3 km (2 miles) SE of Lake Henshaw, CA just after 11pm PDT on May [...]

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Earthquake near Ramona, just a small one

By doug | Published: March 22, 2008

It is not unusual to feel the occasional quake where we live just north east of San Diego. Usually the epicenter is far to the east, near or in the desert. In fact there are small quakes all over California and Nevada all the time. So when I heard the rumble and felt a little [...]

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Hiking in Ramona

By doug | Published: February 24, 2008

It has been raining a lot lately here in Southern California. In between two days of almost an inch of rain each was one bright, sunny and warm day. The rain combined with Suzanne being out of town had Django bouncing off the walls. When Suzanne is traveling he usually hangs with me at the [...]

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Ramona Water Safe to Drink

By doug | Published: October 30, 2007

From the Ramona Sentinel: Effective late Monday evening, Oct. 29, Ramona Municipal Water District canceled its Unsafe Water Alert and reported that its tap water is safe to drink. We now return to our previously scheduled life, already in progress.

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