I’m a Featured Local Blog on Washoe Valley’s Website! Very Cool!

How cool is that? I was just checking my blogstats when I saw WASHOE VALLEY WEBSITE as a referrer so I clicked it on to see what it was. I didn’t know Washoe Valley had their own website!

Washoe Valley. Taken from south end of lake looking NW towards Slide Mountain. 7/2006.

I loved living in Washoe Valley. We moved up to Northern Nevada from Southern California after my dad retired from LAPD. He wanted us far far away from there…Bozeman, Montana actually. But mom put her foot down and they compromized and bought a house on Partridge Lane, Washoe Valley, Nevada. (I think there is a goat farm at our old house now) So in July of 1980 we moved to Washoe Valley. Thus started the longest damn bus rides to Wooster High School…first on the bus and the last to get off. Ugh. ROFL! Kids have it made today…Galena High is much closer.

My sister and I joined 4-H ~ sewing, pigs, dogs, photography, cooking, ceramics…my favorite being in the Swinging Swine pig club. We were the East Side kids…there was another pig group over there on the West Side. I loved my photography group too. I was good enough to join Wooster’s Yearbook staff. We had four pigs, two mallards, three chickens, two white geese (one later became Thanksgiving dinner after goosing mom one too many times), three Springer Spaniels, one cat.

Swam at Washoe Lake, Bower’s Mansion and Jumbo pond. Ice skated at Little Washoe, Davis Creek. Hiked, rode horses and 4-wheeled up Jumbo Grade to Virginia City. I still have a bucket full of square nails that I found along the water flume that went from Virginia City to Washoe Lake area. 4-wheeled in our 2 wheel Datsun pickup among the sage brush between Ormsby Lane and the lake. It was amazing where us teenage girls could get that little truck into. LOL! Attended Bower’s Mansion Bluegrass Festival (started up right after I graduated from high school). Kruse’s Feed & Hardware store…loved that place. I wonder if they still hold the spaghetti feed and dance every year out back of the store…pretty sure it was a fundraiser for the volunteer fire department.

Washoe Valley, south end of lake looking north. 7/2006.

Pelican (my favorite birdie) on Washoe Lake, south end. 7/2006.

Fishing at Davis Creek Park. 2007

Hannah’s fish from Davis Creek Park. 2007

We lived there when Slide Mountain came down. I had just retreived my sister and her friend from swimming at Bowers when it came a rumbling down the mountain. Lived there when a fire burned most of the west side (List Ranch & Little Valley area). Luckily we moved out just before the flood came and washed out Jumbo pond…as that came down and wiped out the whole of our front yard.

I still think the best part of living out there was just the smell. I loved the cool crisp mornings ~ the smell of the sage brush and earth after a rain. I pray that Reno doesn’t get their hands on Washoe Valley like they have been every other place. Would hate to see the valley over-built.