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Historic Owl Cafe, Red Mountain, California

Allow me to introduce the new owners of the Historic Owl Café, Danny and his wife, Arlene.  Along US 395, just south of Ridgecrest, is the Rand Mining District, responsible for historic mines of silver, gold, and tungsten ores.  Three towns: Johannesburg, Randsburg and Red Mountain make up this area.  Ghost towns that are not quite dead yet!  The Owl Café is in what was the thriving town of Red Mountain.

A step into the owl Café is a step back in time.  You are greeted by Owner Danny, dressed in period costume.  The Café is now a museum, store and source of a cold beverage and snacks.  His friendly demeanor and wealth of historical information is impressive.  Their website, RedMtnKellySilver.com has more information.

Plan a stop the next time you plan to travel along the US 395 or plan the Rand Mining District and the Owl Café as trip unto itself.

Today begins our show, here in Bridgeport, California. A little town that explodes into maintown USA for our countries birthday.

Bridgeport, California a Big Small Town

Today is set-up day for a new show for us.  The US 395 takes us to Bridgeport, where for decades they have been celebrating our nations birthday with special events.  The celebration starts this weekend with a rodeo and concludes with fireworks Wednesday night, on the 4th of July.  We will part of the main street event and craft show.

No one can make you angry.  You allow yourself to become angry. God says it is okay to get angry – for good cause – but not to let it lead to sin.  I feel anger is a self destructive behavior.  Only you can control your behavior.

Let us use this USA birthday season to positively influence others to be calm and happy.  Happy birthday to the USA and may your holiday week be blessed.

Radiation Fall Out

Amargosa, Nevada monitors for Gamma Radiation as part of the Community Environmental Monitoring Program, as do other communities downwind from the Nevada National Security Site, where nuclear bomb testing was done over 65 years ago.  Emotions run high on either end of the spectrum in regards to this and other nuclear programs.  The long term effects are not forgotten as we strolled in this community last month and stopped to view this monitoring station,

This week we make our annual trip to Bishop, California for the Annual Mule Days.  We will be showing in the Art In the Park event all weekend.  Our booth is near the highway and we will enjoy the parade on Saturday, as well as other fun events in this Eastern Sierra town that will see 30,000 +/- visitors this weekend.