After eight months without natures moisture(rain), Foster City finally got some desperately needed rain. Not much, but enough to let the people still know what rain looks like.
When I pulled into a gas station near Foster City and walked up to the cashier's window to pay for the gas, before I pumped it, there was a sign in the cashier's ...
"Here he comes!" "Awe..., he missed it." "Here comes another one!" "Wow, look at him go!"
Just listen to these people talking, makes you feel like your at a very exciting event: such as, skiing, soccer, football, or ice-hockey. But, actually, your at Half Moon Bay, CA, which is about twenty-plus miles from Foster City, CA, east, sitting on a sand ...
When I was a summer sheriff deputy, looking for a lost hiker in the Stanislaus National Forest, I heard the click of someone putting a shell into a chamber of a weapon. I stopped short, looked at my partner, he pointed to the left--standing with a shotgun pointed at us was an old looking man: long hair brushed back into a ponytail; eyebrows, bushy as ...
If you are in San Francisco, heading on Mission Street, to the freeway, to go to Foster City, don't and I repeat don't pick up any young looking girl thumbing a ride on Halloween night.
In the early sixties, when the hippie movement in San Francisco was very popular, a young girl dressed in a long flowery gown that reached down ...
To find out what is going on in a city or area, when traveling, read the local newspapers.
In Foster City, California, there is a local paper called The Foster City Islander, which has been reporting about the city and area(about one hundred fifty miles or less)activities for at least thirty-four or more years. There are articles in the paper about ...
We came upon a fact that is hard to believe when you live close to a big city, especially, San Francisco, California. Also, many times, we feel that we do not have the problems that ranchers have, such as, bothersome wild animals.
But when we started to talk to several people, who only live about five or less miles from Foster City, California, that have homes close to Highway 280, ...
One morning, while waiting for Foster City's Audubon Elementary School's kindergarden class to open, for my granddaughter, I saw in a local newspaper, Foster City Islander, the title "Big Oak Flat Road Into Yosemite." I read the small advertisement and started to remember the trips I took on the road as a teenager.
I never knew the history of the road, ...
My wife and I, several years ago, decided to take our daughter(5-years old) to Yosemite: we always would go Highway 120, it's a more scenic route. We left Foster City about 5 a.m. and arrived in the park around 10 a.m., we made several stops on the way.
We heard about bald eagles, but have never seen one in ...
When talking to several backpackers, who live in Foster City, CA, I was told that they shot many wild animals, which were plentiful in the Sierras. "We shot deer, owls, and any thing we could see, and you know, it's not against the law. Oh, by the way, we used a camera to shoot the animals." they said with a smile.
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Summer is here when the temperature in Foster City, California, hit 90-plus. In other areas of the state, the temperatures are even higher. So, everyone trys to cool off--I mean everyone, the animals too.
Don't be surprised to find in your swimming pool an uninvited guest. It could be Yogi Bear; the flower of the woods, a skunk; or a ...
