[AT] CA. landscape a couple years later

[Herb Metz]

Richard, Thanks for the invite; doubt if we make it, 2600 miles,  but never 
know. After the Tulare show we drove over to Grants farm and enjoyed several 
hours with Grant and his Mother.  She and Barbara, both serious flower 
enthusiasts, likewise had their own enjoyable tour and visit.
I dig out the Tulare show pictures to review the many steam traction engines 
(many with large front iron wheel) and the many engine in wheel walk behind 
garden tractors.
Pulled up the Brooks, Oregon Antique Powerland Museums event; that has to be 
one of the oldest, largest, most complete shows. We  know where to find you 
in late July each year <grins>.  Herb(GA)


----Original Message----- 
From: Richard Walker
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2017 2:22 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] CA. landscape a couple years later

> Richard, Couple(?) years ago your area in southern CA. was severely
> impacted from flooding rains after loosing much area vegetation to
> earlier forest fires; much of your area was experiencing huge
> mudslides. Hopefully a large portion of that is now behind you? Herb(GA)


Good to hear from you, Herb.  Still remember that enjoyable meeting with
you and your wife for lunch at the Tulare show many years ago along with
Don Bowen and Karl Olmstead.  Can't remember if Grant Brians wandered by
or not.

Fire burned directly west of our property in April 2013 and came very
close to our house.  Then during every hard rain in the following years,
torrents of mud flowed down a burned out draw canyon to our north, which
drastically impacted our neighbors.  I helped out doing clean up on
neighboring properties using my old tractors, little skid steer, and
small dump truck.  Whenever it got too much for me to handle, the
neighbor to the west (a grading/excavating contractor) would bring over
his larger equipment.  We've gone through five or six cycles of this in
the last three years, which gets old real fast.  And yes, you're right,
after three years much of the loose spoil has already washed down, the
hillsides are getting scoured, vegetation is starting to grow back, and
with the latest rains there is much less mud runoff.

However Judy and I bailed from CA this September (for many other reasons
beyond just wildfires and mud), and are now living in Oregon.  If you
ever might make it out to the Brooks show, definitely give me a holler.

(Ob. old tractor photos attached}


Richard








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