Your Exceptional Life

My goodness it was a hot four days there.  PG&E keeps sending me these things about installing some air conditioning switch that they operate from headquarters and turn up or down or something your air conditioning when you’re at work.  Then you get some sort of break.  What kind of break do you get if [...]

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Yesterday was a lucky day for me in the shadow of the mountain. I started the day with a ride OVER the mountain. I’d never done that before. It was a five hour bike ride door to door. It was also the hardest thing I’ve done in years. And I’m [...]

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What a gorgeous weekend!  We’re kissing 90 degrees right now.  My dogs are tired from playing and are laying around.  I went out on a slow bike ride today.  While working out at Maverick’s yesterday, I slipped on my last deadlift and injured myself.  I haven’t hurt myself like this since 1996 or 1997.  It’s [...]

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The Lindsay Wildlife Museum will be closed Easter Sunday, but open all next week due to spring break.  They have an exhibit up there right now called Bring the Condors Home.  I’m always overcome with childlike amazement when an endangered specie returns from the brink as the condors did.
Tonight it’s March Madness up at the [...]

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Welcome to valeriecrowell.com. As you might imagine, I’m Valerie Crowell. I’ll be your tour guide for this little jaunt around Mt. Diablo.
I’m in the real estate industry. I’ve been working in Northern California most of my life. The basis for every metes and bounds description up here is Mt. Diablo base [...]

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