We need to relax and do more than real estate. Being involved with your local community is part of being in business as well as just living life.
Photo by Elizabeth Larson
Saturday we celebrated our annual Pear Festival here in Kelseyville California. For more than a century the Bartlett pear has been an important engine in Lake County's economy, though in recent years the pear industry has found itself ranked No. 2 behind the growing local wine industry.
We started the day off with a parade through Main Street with floats, horses, old cars and tractors. My wife and I drove our 52 Chevy in it and got a lot of thumbs up from the crowd.
Photo by Ray Perry
There was music, shopping and fun for all ages. For the kids there was a kids fun spot over at the Presbyterian Church, including a slide, a jump house, with a petting zoo just down the road.
Down at one end of town there was the quilt show, dozens of old tractors, a car show plus an exhibition of antique engines supplied by the Early Days Gas Engine and Tractor Association, Branch No. 31. There, Wayne Sanders of Santa Rosa showed visitors how to use a 1901-vintage rope-making machine to twist strands of jute fiber into a usable rope.
Photo by Elizabeth Larson
One of the Pear Festival's great draws is its food - pear milkshakes and desserts at the Presbyterian Church, pear tasting at the University of California Cooperative Extension booth in the Pear Pavilion, even pear ice cream.
Photo by Elizabeth Larson
The weather this year also was perfect - warm but not as hot as in recent years, with just the hint of an early fall in the air.
It's great living in a small town and it's even better when you are involved with the local community.
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