It’s time to celebrate the Harvest season in Valley Home. We will welcome Fall with our annual scarecrow contest! It begins now and runs through our Harvest Festival on October 30! This year we invite everyone to once again display their scarecrow entries so that they can be seen from the road; they will be judged between October 11 and October 15, so they need to be in place by October 11. This year on Saturday, October 30 folks are invited to bring their scarecrow entries to our Valley Home School Harvest Festival to display them. What fun for all to enjoy them! Prizes, including our $50 cash prize and several other prizes will all be awarded at the Harvest Festival. (If you cannot be at Harvest Festival and you are to receive a prize, it will delivered to your home the next week.) Our annual Fall Harvest Festival will be on Saturday, October 30 from 6pm to 9pm this year. Enjoy the fun; enter the Scarecrow Contest by texting or calling me, Winnie, at 209-985-5233, before October 11. Leave your name, phone number and address. Our 4-Hers will be judging along with others this year. Our community and our school are celebrating a very bountiful Harvest season, and we would like to invite each of you to join us! Bring your family and friends. Come have a delicious dinner together and enjoy an evening of fun under a beautiful Harvest moon! Enjoy inside dining, while playing an exciting game of Bingo in a beautiful Fall setting. Our Silent Auction will feature amazing items for the whole family. Please come and support our Valley Home School! Our delightful Sweet Shoppe will offer delicious Harvest sweets and treats for all. “Outside” ... the spooky and very haunted hayride will start hauling its passengers to their doom at 7pm. Beware – zombies from the night will appear beside you when you least expect it; thrills and chills await you on the hayride to … (who knows? – only Agony Bagbones knows!)
Our First Responders will be coming by and maybe even a helicopter touchdown. We will have so much fun at our Valley Home Harvest Festival. Come, enjoy games, cotton candy, hot buttery popcorn, candied cinnamon apples, yummy slushees, pumpkin pie, delicious fall dinners ... there will be something for everyone! Remember if you would just like to come and enjoy relaxing for the evening, you are welcome to bring a comfortable chair and just enjoy the atmosphere of a small community get together! We appreciate each one of you and look forward to saying hello. More details coming over the next few weeks!
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Please remember our Valley Home School Parent Teacher Club (PTC) meets Thursday, Oct. 7 at the park at 3:30 p.m.; everyone is welcome.
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Our Valley Home School Board will meet on Tuesday, October 12 at 6:30 pm in the Bonnie Gellerman Multi Purpose Room. Everyone is welcome.
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On Wednesday, October 13 our Valley Home MAC will meet at 6:30 pm in the Bonnie Gellerman Multi Purpose Room. Our First Responders CHP, Sheriff and Fire will be there to share important information. Stanislaus County representation, including Erica Ignacio and our County Supervisor Buck Condit will be there to answer your questions and share valuable information.
I hope you all can come; these folks bring very, very important information to our community. We appreciate each of them, for coming to Valley Home to be with us.
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I hope many of you will come join us this weekend in Modesto at John Thurman Baseball Field ... “Relay For Life!” Come walk a lap, (come anytime) we are there Saturday, October 9 at 9am until Sunday, October 10 at 9am. Walk a lap as we “Honor Our Sweet Bonnie and All Who Fight Cancer!”
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What a beautiful time of the year; Fall colors are everywhere! The crunch of autumn leaves beneath our feet reminds us that our seasons are changing. Is there anything more beautiful than the burnt orange and rustic yellow leaves that welcome in Fall? In Valley Home, October is a harvest month; the sounds of almond shakers working, providing much needed jobs and walnut trees being harvested, fresh mowed hay fields, Alvin Borba laying down hundreds of much sought after alfalfa and heavy pasture hay bales! A beautiful sight that still holds very dear memories for many here in Valley Home are the shimmering crystal clear waters of the flooded rice patties. While most of these fields have given way to almond and walnut trees, at the edge of Valley Home grows a most cherished crop, a field of rice ready for fall harvest! Yes, during the early days of fall this special rice field is a destination for many families on their Sunday drives. Our summer gardens in Valley Home are now yielding the colors of fall; yellow autumn squash, ripe ears of bright yellow corn, the last of the juicy red vine ripened tomatoes, even beautiful rust colored ears of fall Indian corn are still in our gardens, at the far end of most gardens you will find those huge bright orange carving pumpkins; it’s a beautiful fall season here in Valley Home! With a special “Thank You” to the Cary Taylor family and the Nabors family of Alturas Ca. (former Oakdale residents) there are now more quail living in the wild berry bushes in Valley Home. Thank you so much to the Nabors Family Farm; you helped make it a very blessed Fall in our Valley Home!
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As always, you may reach me by text, or email at winniemullins51@gmail or by telephone at 209-985-5233.
Until next time, “Happy Trails to All!”
