We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving…..filled with lots of love, family, and food!
If you’ve been following the news at all, you know that we have a winter storm coming! Let’s hope that it hits our mountain village!
We are reading meters today and tomorrow, and will have the bills in the mail, no later than Thursday. The bill is due on December 25th, but because of the holiday, the bill will be due on 12/29/14. We want to remind everyone that it is time to shut off your water, if you have not already done so. If you need us to shut it off for you, at your customer valve, please give Becky a call at 951-659-2675, and she will schedule it to be done. There is a $15.00 service call fee to have us do this.
Pine Cove Water Districts wants to wish all of our customers a safe and happy Thanksgiving holiday. Please drive safe, and enjoy the time your spending with family and friends.
Hello Readers. I just wanted to let you know that I am still on a blogging hiatus for a few more months. Due to health issues, I will be off until February 1st, 2015. Even though I won’t be posting any new articles for a while, all the present information will remain up and on the blog. I look forward to getting well and returning to my duties here at the water district.
Don’t forget you can go to the water district website at pcwd.org for information as well.
The weekend storm came and went as Old Man Winter gave it one last shot. It was quite chilly out over the weekend, but it seems to be warming up a bit today. The weather station up at the Rocky Point tank site says it is 54 degrees out at 10 a.m., so we are getting back to normal. Hopefully this will be the last cold & snow storm of the season. While moisture is always welcome, it is getting late in the year to have snow and freezing temperatures. Let’s hope for lots of nice rain for the rest of the spring and some summer monsoonal moisture this summer.
Here is the forecast for the coming week. Looks like temperatures are going up but we are going to get some wind.
Detailed Forecast
Today Sunny, with a high near 64. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight Mostly clear, with a low around 52. North wind 5 to 10 mph becoming northeast 15 to 20 mph in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph.
Tuesday Sunny, with a high near 67. Windy, with a northeast wind 25 to 30 mph, with gusts as high as 45 mph.
Tuesday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 51. Windy, with a northeast wind 25 to 35 mph, with gusts as high as 55 mph.
Wednesday Sunny, with a high near 63. Windy, with a northeast wind around 30 mph, with gusts as high as 50 mph.
Wednesday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 53. Windy.
Thursday Sunny, with a high near 70. Breezy.
Thursday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 55.
Friday Sunny, with a high near 73.
Friday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 54.
Saturday Sunny, with a high near 70.
Saturday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 53.
Edison has turned off the electricity here on the hill. It should be off until about noon. They are working on upgrading the system and everyone was given advance notice. This is a planned outage and there is nothing wrong and there is no problem.
The weather has warmed up slightly and it is about 40 degrees this morning. The sun should be back out by Sunday and temperatures should be back in the 50’s. So, all in all, it should be a decent weekend here on the hill if you are planning a trip up. If you are a full timer, it will be a good weekend to get a head start on some of those spring projects. It is too bad we didn’t get more snow, but we have no control over that.
Please remember we are now in Stage I conservation. Please conserve water whenever possible. For more information on the Water Conservation Stages, please check the page at the top of the blog. We also enclosed a brochure in this month’s bill explaining the different stages as well as the tiered water prices for each stage.
A storm moved through Pine Cove late yesterday and left a little covering of snow. Maybe an inch. However, it is still very cold outside. It is currently 38 degrees and there is some ice on the roads. The sun is out and shining and so the ice should start melting off, but it would still be best to be careful if driving around up here this morning. There is black ice on some roads which can take a driver by surprise if they aren’t used to driving in it. We were hoping for more snow than we got, but Mother Nature is in control, not us. It should be back up in the high 50’s by Sunday.
Just a quick reminder that we have moved into Stage I Water Conservation, starting today. Stage I is voluntary compliance and we have every confidence that Pine Cove Water District customers will rise to the challenge, as they always do! Many of our customers are now practicing water conservation as a way of life and this is great news.
If you are not sure what all the different water conservation stages entail, please check the top of the blog for the page entitled Water Conservation Stages for more information. If you have any questions, you can always call us at 951-659-2675 during normal business hours of 9 to 4, Monday through Friday. Or you can email us at Becky@pcwd.org or Vicki@pcwd.org or drop by the office in person. It is located at 249217 Marion Ridge Road, right next to the fire station. Or you can write to us at PO Box 2296, Idyllwild, CA 92549.
Remember that conserving water today ensures there will be water tomorrow. We appreciate all the efforts our customers make towards conserving water.
A storm rolled into Pine Cove over night and left a light dusting of snow. It has been lightly raining on and off most of the morning. It is cold, (30 degrees at 10:20 a.m.) foggy and damp. It is not too much fun to be outside this morning. There is a possibility of some snow accumulation tonight into tomorrow morning of 3 to 7 inches, but we will have to wait and see if that materializes or not. Any moisture is most welcome, so rain or snow, we will take it.
All in all, today is a good day to stay inside by the fire if you don’t have to be out and about, but if you do, wear a warm jacket and take a hat or umbrella to keep yourself dry just in case it starts to rain or snow, as it can be sporadic. Roads are clear, but there is currently a light fog. While the visibility is good here in Pine Cove, you never know how it is elsewhere, so if you are driving, be prepared for the possibility of running into some fog that may be thicker than what we currently have here in Pine Cove.
We will see what tonight brings and I will update weather conditions with a new post tomorrow morning. In the meantime, the boys finished reading meters on Friday afternoon and Becky is now working on the billing. Bills will probably hit the mail box sometime tomorrow and are due on the 25th of this month.
Stay warm and dry and please make sure you bring your pets inside during inclement weather! Remember, they enjoy sitting in front of a nice warm, roaring fire just as much as you do.
And just in case you don’t have a fireplace where you are now, here is one for you.
Gardening is a very popular and rewarding past time and is alive and well here on the hill. We have a local garden club and I personally know many people who just love to garden. So, as promised, here is a post about raised bed and container gardening.
Gardening here in Pine Cove can be very challenging. We face a variety of obstacles which included unpredictable weather, plant munching critters such as deer, squirrels and gophers, less than perfect soil and drought conditions. So what is an avid gardener to do?
Build a raised bed or container garden of course! I have found this to be the perfect solution to all of the above dilemmas. Containers come in a large variety of styles, materials, colors and sizes to fit any style of home or garden. Many plants, including vegetables and fruits, can be grown in containers. You can also get very creative and create a container garden out of some unusual objects such as metal animal water troughs, old buckets, dressers, wagons, wheelbarrows, wash tubs, old sinks, rain spouting, baskets and many other things. You can let your imagination run wild! Here are some pictures to get your creative juices flowing.
Check out my next post for more on raised bed gardening!
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