Labor Day Weekend Weather – Excellent!

The last holiday and much of August was pretty WARM, but this weekend we are forcasted to be:

Friday 92 degrees Saturday 89 Sunday 86 and Monday 84

As you might know, since it is very dry, this temperature is very pleasant on your skin, especially lounging around under the shady trees.

Oh, by the way, one of our earth friendly offerings is taking water from our pure and deep aquifers and making ice to sell in the Sacred Rocks Convenience Store. If you have tasted regular commercial ice or notice what it does inside your drinks, and THEN taste our ice, you will notice a BIG difference. Our water and ice are both sweet and pure and therefore, beneficial to your body.

How to Make your Business Eco-Friendly

Just about everywhere you turn, you will see something that has to do with being ‘green’. Many ideas are not new, in fact are conservations strategies taught by my folks, who were taught by their folks, who were taught by their folks from ancient times. I got to thinking about all the earth friendly techniques that we have put into the renaissance of our land. It is really amazing when I stopped to add them up. In fact, I got lost trying to add them!

Future discussions will be covering conservations ideas that we used for the Earth, the Plants, the Water, the Underground, the Electricity, the Equipment, and the Pool.

Typical Summer Weather- you need a swimsuit AND umbrella AND a quilt!

Thunderheads approaching

Have you ever visited a place that required a swimsuit for the heat AND rain umbrella AND a quilt at night?

Sacred Rocks Reserve is located at 3800 feet in altitude, inland from the ocean about 70 miles, and about 50 miles from the Imperial County desert floor.

Over the weekend the temperature reached about 90 degrees at Sacred Rocks Reserve. 5 degrees cooler than El Cajon, CA. 15-20 degrees cooler than El Centro, CA. Because it is very dry at Sacred Rocks Reserve guests lounged comfortably in hammocks and chaise lounges in the shade, and did not suffer the heat. Over the weekend, the night time weather fell to 52 degrees! Most of us sleeping with the windows open had to pull up a blanket.

This is the time of year to catch the beautiful thunderheads as they bring rain to the mountains. Today, there is an ALERT for severe thundershowers for Boulevard, Ca, home of Sacred Rocks Reserve and Sacred Rocks RV Park.

So the word of the day is, swimsuits and umbrellas!

Our Real Address

The oddest stories keep coming to us about guests using map services and GPS equipment and finding us by traveling off the freeway onto Old Hwy 80, then across the dirt cutoff from Live Oak Springs then onto Hwy 94 and eventually to us.

So I finally checked it out and, lo and behold, 37133 Hwy 94 is an address used for our property since the early 1900s, but does NOT exist! It has been wrong for 100 years! I pinned down the right info at the San Diego County Planning & Land Use Department and we REALLY are located at 1331 Shasta Way.

Verrrrry unusual things happen in the high country! So with the new name we also have a new address, but we are still in the same place.

Please note: Sacred Rocks Reserve, 1331 Shasta Way, Boulevard, CA 91905.

Sacred Rocks Photo Album on Picasa

Look at photos of scenes around Sacred Rocks Reserve at the brand new web photo album on Picasa.

As of this writing, there are only a few pictures, but keep checking back as more photographs are uploaded.

Heartsick…..

A camper visited the weekend of the Fourth of July. Not knowing, or not caring. Spent a huge amount of time and effort cutting deeply into two of the majestic oak trees, their initials and a heart. How could they?

How could they? Did they not understand that each cut through the bark of the tree opens a door for infestation and thus, death for the tree. The result is that two beautiful trees, at least 200-300 years old are at risk. We will try to heal and cover the wound to the tree but it is not always successful.

Now, in this time of drought, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, AVOID cutting into the bark, or putting nail holes, or screws. Tell your children, tell your guests and report immediately to the office if you notice anyone doing this.

What are Emerald ash borer, Asian longhorned beetle, and Sirex woodwasp?

oak tree killed by non-native insects

These are 3 wood-infesting species that can be transported long distances in firewood and can become established and kill local trees. The USDA Forest Service states that we must STOP THE SPREAD and protect our forest and trees. Please help spread the word about this serious problem.

What can we do?

1. Leave firewood at home
2. Use firewood from local sources

Over the last two years we have lost at least 10 oak trees due to infestation. Did you know that most of our oak trees are more than 300 years old? It took 2 weeks, yes, 2 weeks to kill the beautiful and ancient trees.

Do we seem harsh about the rule of NO OUTSIDE FIREWOOD? You bet! Neither we, nor our children, nor our children’s children will be here for the replacement tree to be as beautiful as they are right now. Perhaps it will take 4 generations to replace what is lost due to infestation.

We heard a few comments about the Park just wanting to make a buck selling our own firewood. Actually, when you add the cost of felling the dead tree, to the cost of the workers cutting and stacking, and the cost of the Workampers delivering the wood to a site, there is not a penny of profit!

So if we ignored this problem, thinking to please everyone regardless of the cost, our trees could be all dead in a few years. Imagine that! Would you want to come to a place with a dead forest overhead?

Please do your part to keep this a beautiful nature reserve, Sacred Rocks Reserve.

Love from a Child’s View

Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day

Mary Ann – age 4

Moved from Blogspot to WordPress

Outdoor World RV Park’s blog on Blogspot is now officially moved to Sacred Rocks on WordPress!

Change your bookmarks:

(old) http://outdoorworldrvpark.blogspot.com/

(NEW!) http://sacredrocks.wordpress.com/

Old name, old logo (Outdoor World RV Park) –> NEW NAME, NEW LOGO = Sacred Rocks Reserve

The White Pickup Truck

Often as I drive from Sacred Rocks Reserve and RV Park I see a white pickup truck. Imagine driving the 3-1/2 to downtown Boulevard, the 4 miles to Live Oak Springs Market, the occasional 5 and 7 mile jaunts to nearby casinos, and driving on curvy roads, with the sun shining brightly and trying to see who is driving so I can wave if I know them.

I ask myself, as the trucks flash by, is that Mark, or Tara, or Fred, or Jim and by the time I can think whose white truck it might be, we have sped past each other. In the past I have just missed waving, but now I think that I ought to wave. So in the future I have decided to wave at EVERY white truck!

But wait, although 9 out of 10 trucks at our RV Park are white, there are red ones and gray ones and green ones, so to not offend anyone, I shall wave at those also.

But also we do have some cars of various colors, so to include everyone, I shall wave at them too.

So if you see a white Lexus riding around the mountains with a woman waving like crazy, that would be me. So please wave back!

My biggest fear is that I’ll get into the habit and continue it on my drive to and from San Diego, and show the whole world my craziness!!!