Off-farm Income

SHOW NOTES Merry Christmas to all of you!  Thank you so much for making it possible for me to do this for the past three years (already)!  I have a favorite memory of my time growing up in Valley Home, California that happened 40 years ago on Christmas Eve.  I wanted to share this with you for my Christmas episode this year. I could try and type out this story here for you to read, but I'm going to make you listen to it.  I grew up in a very special place; a town that was dying out.  We were there in what really were its last, best years and I've got a lot of fond memories from my childhood.  This story is just one of them. Here are some photographs to help show you what I am talking about when I describe Valley Home and the alley where this took place. This is what Wikipedia says about Valley Home today and the triangular shape of the town: Here is a satellite image of Valley Home.  I lived in the bottom right of the triangle: The purple pin is where the Valley Home Store is located. Here is a close up