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The town of Los Gatos enjoys a large number of wonderful free music concerts across several different venues each summer. These are fun events held around town - a great chance to unwind with family and friends and a picnic on the lawn. Mark your calendars!Squirrels Are Not A Problem in Los Gatos |
Let's be clear on something: squirrels, possums, skunks, racoons and other wildlife are not generally a problem in Los Gatos. Recently a mountain lion was seen on Cypress Way - and sometimes the big cats wander into suburbia. Those events constitute a problem. But by and large, the small furry animals that share our turf are not an issue.I bring this up because I like to track who's finding "Live In Los Gatos", how they get here, what are the popular search terms, etc. It's all visible to you, too, if you are in the slightest bit interested. Just scroll to the bottom of the page and find the Site Meter button. Click on it. A whole world of info - probably much more than could possibly interest you - about how people find this spot lies in the pages beyond that portal.
What upset me today was seeing that one Google surfer found this site by asking about killing squirrels in Los Gatos. If you go through the Site Meter link and then look at the left sidebar where it says "Referrals" you will find one that reads as follows:
| Referring URL | http://www.google.co...uirrels in los gatos | |
| Search Engine | google.com | |
| Search Words | plan to kill squirrels in los gatos |
When I clicked on the Google search page, I saw that there seem to be aggressive squirrels in Palo Alto and people are thinking of extermination. Maybe it's beyond that and it's part of a plan. But as far as I know, there's NOTHING like that in Los Gatos.
That said, I just asked my husband, Jim Handy (who is a volunteer parks commissioner in Los Gatos) if there's anything about a plan to kill squirrels in Los Gatos. "No, but there's a problem with gophers at Oak Meadow Park", he informed me. What kind of problems? "Ankle turners..." Jim explained that people have been getting hurt tripping on gopher holes at the Town's Oak Meadow Park. Apparently there is a plan to poison gophers - at that one park.
It used to be against the law to use poison in parks in all cases. Apparently now, under heavy regulation, some use of poison is allowed. I can't say this makes me feel any better that it's a very guarded situation.
What about the historic but still timely Macabee Gopher Trap? It has been in production right here in Los Gatos for about a hundred years. Or perhaps it would be better if they would use a product like my old Saratoga High School friend Bob Bruno's "Gophernator" (or "Rodenator" since apparently it handles more than just gophers). Who ya gonna call?
In the sunniest parts of the Belgatos Park trails, the gravely areas just off the paths are filled with funnel spider webs. At first, one family member asserted confidently that these were tarantula webs. But before putting something on my blog, I went to check it out. So I spent (wasted?) over two hours reading up on it today.
So have a look and see what you think. Any idea who lives in these?
Last night I heard from my volunteer Los Gatos Parks Commissioner husband, after a meeting of the Parks Commission, that the town has given a 6 month hiatus on the sale of the Vasona Park land (which the town owns) to the county. The lease isn't up until 2010. (See 
Some in the town of Los Gatos want to take that 13 acres back from Santa Clara County and turn it into a skateboard park. And if not that, a soccer field. To say that one is opposed to that idea is almost to appear "anti-child".
Creek embankments are cool and inviting on a warm spring or summer day. It is very tempting to inch your way down to the stream, toss away the flip flops and let the gentle current sweep past your dusty, dry toes.
Somehow I just never got it. Maybe it's that I don't play golf - am not supposed to due to some rods in my back for scoliosis. And in Spring I am plagued with hayfever - green things are not as tempting to me as to others. So avoiding contact with the tall green everything always seemed to be in my best interest.
"leaves of three, let it be" and knew that in the autumn, the leaves turn a bright red. But I really didn't know, other that that, what it looked like. .jpg)
Yesterday I visited Vasona Lake County Park to see the nesting Great Blue Herons. While there, I took 54 photos of adjoining Oak Meadow and Vasona Parks. It's impossible to capture all of these two parks in one quick slideshow, but I did attempt to do that with another one-minute Real Estate Show.
