I’d not make a special trip to see these, but if you are in Nevada City you may want to check out the decorated halloween houses located where Broad St divides into East Broad St and West Broad St. One is on Broad St just by the divide, featuring an excellent headless woman, and the other two are just past the divide on East Broad Street and feature lights, figures, and a giant spider.
Want to add some Nevada County photographs to your site? Want to have them change regularly so your visitors get new scenes from the local area? Well install the Nevada County Photograph Widget on your website, and entertain your visitors with views from Bridgeport, Grouse Lakes, Nevada City and more. Simply click the “get widget” link underneath the widget below and follow the instructions. The install process will give you some code to enter into your website and instantly you’ll have a slideshow of Nevada County photographs embedded on your site.
Your kids (no not you…never…) will enjoy this scenic 30 minute train ride to the pumpkin patch through woods adorned with Halloween decorations. Reservations are recommended for this event run by the Nevada County Traction Company in Nevada City. Phone 530-265-0896 or www.northernqueeninn.com.
For more Nevada County and Nevada City events, see thisisnevadacounty.com.
IF you frequent the various markets in Grass Valley and Nevada City you’ll have come across Frontier Angel Soaps, that is if you can get through the crowds of people at their stall to be able to smell their excellent range of soaps! They make the soaps by hand locally in Grass Valley, and as I walk the dog at night I always look forward to the smell of the batch of soap being made, especially pungent on clear, cold, still nights.
Anyways, looking for another local gift idea? Well we have been sending these soaps around the country to all and sundry and after the initial response of “thank you for the soap you sent from Grass Valley for my birthdaty / Christmas / whatever (delete as applicable)”, we usually get a follow up response a few months later which normally starts like this “remember that Grass Valley soap you sent me, can i get some more?”.
So we can heartily recommend giving this soap as a present. It’s not your run of the mill soap. It’s hand made, and it’s very nicely packaged. Here in Grass Valley you can buy it at the Briarpatch, or at Amy Taylors (on Mill St). And if you want any further details about the soap or where you can buy it, see the Frontier Angel website. One word of warning, if you are sending these soaps out of the area, buy them early and ship them early so you can spend less on shipping.
From May until November (with the exception of maybe one or two rain events) the sun shines and light breezes blow in Grass Valley and the foothills. Close on perfect weather to use a clothesline to dry your washing instead of a dryer and help save energy and money too!
Ah yes you say, but when i run the dryer it only costs me 11c a Kilowatt hour so it would cost me more in terms of time and money if I had to hang clothes and wait for them to dry. Well maybe you do manage to keep your electricity usage within the PGE baseline rate, but what if you don’t? You can be paying up to 35c a Kilowatt hour if your electricity usage is over 300% of the baseline (check your bill and see!). That gets expensive in a hurry.
One way to reduce that electricity usage is to dry clothes on a clothesline. Easy to put up and use, such lines used to be a common sight in many a yard. Just look around yards in Grass Valley and Nevada City for poles with wheels at the top, wheels that used to carry clotheslines. Even if your yard does not seem big enough for a line, consider a rotary clothes dryer. These take up less space and can easily be put up or taken down depending on need.
So save the planet by using less energy, and save some money too, at least for another couple of months in 2008.