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Tag Archives: Valencia CA
The Hughes Fire (Evacuation Edition)
View from my upstairs windows. This was the beginning of the Hughes Fire and this is why we left. We were in the WARNING evac zone, but a mile up the road was the GO NOW evac zone. What would … Continue reading
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Tagged #calfire, #HughesFire, 2005, California Fires, fire evacuations, Hughes Fire, Pets, poetry, Valencia CA, writing
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Los Angeles Fires
The same Pasadena cousins we watched the 2025 Rose Parade with evacuated their home a week later because: Eaton fire 1/7/25. Same day, my in-laws evacuated Santa Monica as the Palisades fire raged towards their home. I live in Valencia. … Continue reading
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Tagged #calfires, #eatonfire, #lafd, #palisadesfire, #watchdutyapp, 2025, 2025 Rose Parade, Climate Change, Eaton Fire, fire donations, fire evacuations, hurricane, hurricanes, Hurst Fire, Los Angeles Fire Department, news, Pacific Palisade Fire, Valencia CA, Watch Duty, Weather
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Welsh Cakes (Delectables Edition)
Placing in the SCBWI Sue Alexander Grant Competition tossed me into a novel-revising fever since my last post, interrupted by actual fever/flu and the teen getting fever/flu during the same week the husband got Covid and was quarantined in our … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, black currant jam, books, clotted cream, fiction, fiction writing, kidlit, lemon curd, Middle Grade Fiction, pb rippey, Reading, SCBWI, Scotch eggs, Sue Alexander Grant, Ted Lasso shortbread, The Welsh Baker, Valencia CA, Wales, Welsh Cakes, Welsh miners cakes, writing
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Creating Update
Helloooo, August. I write 6-7 days/week, but it was extremely challenging to haul my butt into the office chair for most of July as I’ve been grieving for my girl Kaia. We adopted her at 10 weeks old, she developed … Continue reading
Dam Break! (Shaman Edition)
Not at all far from my new home in the Santa Clarita Valley are chunky ruins of the St. Francis Dam, once a major reservoir for Los Angeles. March 12, 1928, the dam collapsed. The sudden freedom of 12.4 billion … Continue reading
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Tagged 2021, Harey Carey Sr, Navajo AZ, Pacific Ocean, San Francisquito Dam break, Santa Clarita Valley, Shaman, Tesoro Adobe, Valencia CA, Ventura CA
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