Anyone else get woken up at 1:00 am by a family of raccoons playing on their roof? Just me huh?
SLOcoug
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U.S. history and archiving teacher at Bakersfield High School, local Kern County historian, working in Bakersfield and playing in San Simeon, CA. WSU grad. Go Cougs! EWU grad. Go Eagles! Quaker. LGBTQ+ Ally
With Trump’s ongoing war against Iran continuing, this is the only instance I can find of an enemy surrendering only after air attacks. But there was an invasion fleet off the coast of Panterrelia and the Nazis were running low on water.
Operation Corkscrew - Wikipedia
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Summertime is my grandson walking through the kitchen in his bathing suit, grabbing a hand towel off the oven doors and walking out to the pool. Me: “What are you going to do with the hand towel?” Grandson as he gets in the pool: “It’s an eel now.” #summer2026
Anyone watching the Trump cabinet press conference? He’s been rambling about the fountain forever. My god. Painful to watch
Paid for the cheapest diesel in Paso Robles, California at the low price of $7.49 a gallon. That’s $150 for 20 gallons of diesel. This is not sustainable.
I just paid $7.05 a gallon for diesel in Bakersfield, California. My biggest concern is that I might look back nostalgically next week at $7.05 a gallon.
Doom scrolling is on the next level today. We are 60 days into 2026.
Tomorrow is the 39th anniversary of my wife and I’s first date. Our first date was on Friday the 13th but I didn’t leave her house until Valentine’s Day. We made chocolate chip cookies. We were together for 36 years. Cindy passed from cancer in 2023. I miss her every day.
America changed on January 7, 2026. The video of the shooting in Minneapolis and the federal government’s response as well as the President’s lying post have finally hit the level of outrageous. Now we see how the country reacts.
January 4,2026: “Whew, what a year this has been! I’m sure everything will improve in 2027.”
Found an old, empty bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 on the beach after a storm. I miss the 1980’s, but not enough to drink ‘Orange Jubilee’ Mad Dog. It must take like cough syrup.
I was fortunate to witness the breach of the bar of a creeks’s lagoon north of San Simeon, California. The heavy overnight rains in the Santa Lucia Mountains had arrived at the coast. The second video was taken 30 minutes later.
Why wetlands are so important for migratory birds. There are multiple variety of shore birds cleaning the salt water off their feathers along the Central California coast.
A tribute to someone’s mother named Linda. But for those who know, know.
My friends Dan and Lisa helped me re-install the McKittrick Tar Pits marker for the Kern County Historical Society on Saturday. Kern County used to have Dire Wolves and Saber Tooth Cats! I haven't started my 20 year old Honda 2000i generator in 5 five years, started on first pull. amazing
My brush with fame: Robert Redford was standing on the front porch of WSU president Glen Terrell's house in the early 1980s. I was walking to class and took a short cut up the president's driveway. Robert was in his bathrobe with a cup of coffee, raised it and said good morning as I passed.
This might be the most random item - other then the clip to a 9 mm pistol - that I have found while walking the Streets of Bakersfield.
Our family was riding around in the truck yesterday and my 4 year old great nephew saw a porta-potty in the back of a delivery truck when he said, “Look! A toilet box!” Our new name for porta-potties.
I guess we can stop saying, “It’s just like 1930s in Germany!” No, it’s 2025 in America.
My sisters and I were kids when our parents drove us to Idaho Falls, Idaho for my father’s high school reunion. While my parents attended the reunion on a Saturday night, my sisters and I walked from the hotel to a movie theater and watched the movie Jaws.
Last week I found a 9mm clip in a crosswalk. Today I found a fishing pole. I wonder what tomorrow’s tide will bring in.
The California central coast early in the morning. The only tracks on the beach were pelicans and seagulls. #california
Over the years, I have found some very random things while on a walk. But a 9 mm Ruger clip laying in the crosswalk? That’s a first. But then again, I live in Bakersfield….
