100 Things I Like: Pumpkin Fields

Two years in a row, I've stumbled across a pumpkin field that I had to just stop the car and tumble out to go stand among the pumpkins. Oooh. click.  Oooh. click. Last year, it was somewhere in San Juan Valley. This year, it was on Santa Ana Road. Who knows where one will suddenly be next year?

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100 Things I Like: Used Treasures

Available in a San Juan shop, next to the bank on Third Street

Thrift stores or antique shops. It doesn't matter, I like wandering through them all. Hollister and San Juan Bautista has both kinds. Garage sales, ooh-la-la! Heaven.

This Saturday, October 22, the County of San Benito Integrated Waste Management Regional Agency is sponsoring a county-wide garage sale day. It'll be from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. A listing of garage sales will be available on Friday. Click here to find out where you can get a list.

If you do go garage sale hopping this Saturday, be careful and aware. The Condor Classic is also happening. Please patiently share the road with the cyclists.

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100 Things I Like: The Clock Tower

Until this year I did not realize how much of a presence the Masonic Lodge clock tower has beyond the corner of San Benito and Fourth Streets. The other day, I was skirting Park Hill on Third Street when the clock tower suddenly came into sight. I admit it: I gasped in appreciation.

Here's another angle of the 103-year old tower clock that made me stop earlier this year. And, if you want to know a bit more about the structure, click here.

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100 Things I Like: The Chickens of San Juan Bautista

Mama and her baby some where in the  SJB State Historic Park.

But, I don't live in San Juan Bautista. If I did, would I still like the chickens wandering around town? Probably, yes. I'd be more annoyed at the noise of the traffic on 156.

I have noticed that fewer chickens are about. The chicken wrangler that San Juan Bautista hired is hard at work. I don't know if it's my imagination, but when the husband and I were walking around town yesterday, it sure seemed like the chickens were peeping out from under bushes as if wondering if the coast was clear.

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100 Things I LIke: Finding New Places to Wander

Looking east towards the Diablo Range from beyond North Street.

The husband and I decided to explore a part of Hollister we've never been before—beyond North Street. We had no idea whether the land at the end of North Street was public or private property; but, we figured signs would be up.

No signs. We saw a couple of foot paths, so headed forward. If it had been earlier, we would've followed a path that looks like it would take us around the north end of the IOOF cemetery.

It's gorgeous up there, as you can see. Several years ago, some people were hoping that Gavilan College would plant its Hollister campus on that land. I thought they were talking about Park Hill, so I didn't get it at all. How could you put a college up on that small hill? After seeing some of the land, I completely get it. I can visualize a campus up there. Better yet, how about a large expansive park with trails.

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