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Put your car keys beside your
bed at night.
Put your car keys beside your bed at night. If
you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house,
just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and
the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car
battery dies. This works well if any kind of emergency occurs and you need
to get someone's attention.
Submitted by Don Teppola.
An alert from Don Teppola
It seems there are lots of stores that are closing
due to the "recession" and the fact that people are not shopping. If you
have any "gift cards" from
these stores, make sure you use them or you will lose them!!
Watch those store money cards and gift cards and
credit slips!!
New Cell Phone tips and tricks
Find a business, Highway delays due to weather, construction, accidents
and turn off spam before it cost you money for text messaging.
Watch
a motor home burn as the owner video tapes the inferno.
Three important questions
to ask your doctor when they are making a diagnosis. Get the doctor
thinking about other possibilities.
1. "What else
could it be?"
2. "Could two things be going on to explain my
symptoms?"
3. "Is there anything in my history, physical exams, laboratory findings,
or other test that seem not to fit with your working diagnosis?"
Taken from AARP and How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman, MD
Do you know someone that
you suspect is being financially exploited?
There is a hot-line to adult protective services that
are responsible for investigating suspected financial exploitation.
(anonymously if you wish).
www.elderabusecenter.org
Do you use your cell phone while
you drive your vehicle?
You are leaving yourself wide open for a big fine
if you do this anywhere in Washington starting
in July 2008. Sources say
the increase of
accidents and fatalities are what prompted the
new law.
Hood Canal Bridge closing, are
you making plans?
The Hood Canal Bridge retrofit and replacement
project will improve the existing structure, making
it wider, safer and
more reliable. The bridge will close for six weeks during May-June 2009 to
allow WSDOT and contractors from Kiewit-General to remove and replace its
eastern half. For more information, visit
http://www.hoodcanalbridge.com/.
Submitted by Karen S.
Your next gadget may come with pre-installed
viruses. (USA Today)
RollinRollin.com Foreign
Correspondent Bill Montfort gives an on the scene photo report on the
recent
disturbance
in Panama City,
Panama
Passport wallet size
"Cards"
now available for
land and sea travel in place of the regular passport. Go to
http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html
"If you judge people,
you have no time to
love them."
Mother Teresa
Analog to
Digital TV converters By February 17th,
2009 you must have a TV that receives digital programming or a converter
box. Did you know the federal government will provide up to two $40.00
coupons to go toward the purchase of two converter boxes. Call
1-888-388-2009.
Cable and satellite not affected. Also
www.dtv.gov or 1-888-225-5322
Did you know
that old crank-up Winegard dish antenna you have on the
roof of your motor home can be made into a HDTV crank-up dish antenna?
Check out these easy plans.
Remember
that "do not call list"
If you registered the first year it
started, you will have to reregister again this coming year. Can you
believe it has been almost 5 years?
Latest
update - FTC will not make you reregister, read about it at
www.donotcall.gov or call 1 888
382-1222
Here
is a place to check out those phony Emails before you forward them,
petitions, financial help, etc.
No
more delays at Washington bridges paying tolls.
Get a
Transponder Sticker for your windshield. "Good To Go"
Submitted by Judy A.
Thinking
about buying prescription medication on the internet?
Before you buy you should read this report from the FDA
Allergies,
find out before you travel when and where the pollen count is high.
Need
proof that you applied for your passport
in case it doesn't come in time for your trip?
You will need it to get back into the U.S.A. (Information supplied by Judy
A.)
Want
to purchase your yearly Tabs (stickers) for your WA license plates on
line, instead of in line?
Go here.
Electric or Propane - What will your choice be?
Do you have a choice in your RV? If so, you
will want to know how to save money on the energy you use.
Latest and greatest Hot Spot finder from the traveling Cates
How to by-pass company and personal automated answering systems
Port Townsend Webcam
for views of the Courthouse,
Ferry,SR #104, Tacoma narrows and Jefferson County Airport
Two other websites on
Port Townsend
One and
Two
More Websites
Web
sites you need to know for traveling the Northwest
More
traveling web sites (i.e. where to get a passport)
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Latest snow pictures
from Dick and Diane at Evergreen COHO.
 
Spectacular views of
Owens Valley taken by
one of our roaming photographers Larry Koenig #330 prior to the snowfall.
Owens Valley
What the Owens Valley means to
the outdoors type is access to thousands of miles of the most spectacular
high mountain trails in the country. Trails originate all along the
length of the valley. The BLM provides crude but economical dry
campgrounds at several locations and the Paiute Palace Casino in Bishop
provides a free dry camping.
While the
system of trails is immense and includes the Pacific Crest Trail for
endless days of backpacking, incredible places can be reached just by
modest day hikes. The photos were all taken on day hikes in mid October
when the fall colors were already history and still it is an incredibly
beautiful area and the temperature in the valley and in the mountains was
near perfect. A previous trip at the end of September caught the fall
colors but the valley was unbearably hot though it was still comfortable
in the mountains.
Don’t pass
through Bishop without visiting Galen Rowell’s Mountain Light Photography
and the Erick Schat's Bakery. Galen Rowell died in a private plane crash
in 2002 but his work, some of the best scenic photographs I have ever
seen, is still on display. Words cannot describe the Erick Schat’s Bakery
which has what seems like a limitless variety of bread. Shepherds bread
is the signature bread but skip it. Instead try a Russian raisin and
pecan, olive or cheese bread. If you arrive early in the morning, samples
of three feature breads are usually available.
For more pictures by Larry and more information go to
Owens
Valley, CA be sure to click on slideshow for full size photos.
Friends get together for Thanksgiving
Photos by Gene Holly



Time for Rachel to bury that Time
Capsule.
more pictures by Dave weaver

First snow at COHO-----10/08/08
And so, another
season changes.
Joanne describes Autumn at the park
with
pictures of the start of the waterfall project.
Favorite
Clippings - send us yours
Ideas
are very much like children,
your own are
wonderful.
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