Lake Tahoe Posts

You can't buy happiness, but you can buy dessert and that's kind of the same thing.

Bluestone Jewelry is celebrating 15 years in the Tahoe City and Truckee area and wants to thank the local community for its support over the years. Most everything in the store is on sale. Many items are 30 to 50% OFF. The offer is good until December 7th so now is the time to get those pieces never on sale.

Placer County is seeking an entry-level Library Clerk for our Kings Beach and Tahoe City locations. Get details and apply via the button below! Scroll toward the bottom for "Tahoe Area Only" positions.

It's soup season!

It's MaiTime! Drink local, stay local!

We need your help to show everyone just how much you love our trails! Please take a moment to fill out our Nevada Nordic Trails Survey. This info is crucial to our permitting process and also lets us know what your priorities are for the future of Nevada Nordic!
For more info on the USFS project, visit the USFS Winter Recreation Project: https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=47342&exp=detail

16th Annual Passport to Dining set for November 10 ~ North Tahoe's Most Flavorful Fundraiser Features 30 Food, Wine, and Beer Tasting Stations and a Silent Auction and Raffle
Back for it's sixteenth year, Passport to Dining promises to be an evening of delicious food, craft breweries, and regional wineries that attendees won't want to miss. North Tahoe Business Association (NTBA), a nonprofit organization with a mission to improve economic vitality and quality of life, will host North Tahoe's most flavorful fundraiser on Thursday, November 10, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at North Tahoe Event Center, in Kings Beach, CA.

Passport to Dining brings together 30 tasting stations offering a wide variety of flavors from restaurants, caterers, wineries, and breweries. While enjoying tastings, attendees can support two worthy local nonprofit organizations by purchasing raffle tickets and bidding on silent auction items and packages. The raffle and auction are recognized as one of the best in North Lake Tahoe featuring Northern California Getaway Packages and many additional valuable items.

This year, NTBA will donate a portion of Passport to Dining’s proceeds to Sierra Community House, an organization dedicated to connecting and empowering the community through family strengthening, crisis intervention, hunger relief, and legal services.

Tickets are $60 and include unlimited responsible tastings. Attendees can vote for the People's Choice award for best food station. Tickets are available in advance only, and can be found online at www.northtahoebusiness.org on a limited, first-come, first-served basis.

"Passport to Dining is a super fun and social fundraiser that allows NTBA to showcase and guests to enjoy culinary delights from a variety of tasting stations while supporting two worthy local nonprofit organizations," said Alyssa Reilly, executive director of NTBA.

For a list of tasting stations, premier silent auction and raffle prizes, and additional Passport to Dining information, visit www.northtahoebusiness.org.

Passport to Dining is made possible through the generosity of the participating restaurants, caterers, breweries, and wineries. Passport to Dining is sponsored by Liberty Utilities, North Tahoe Public Utility District, Placer County, Moonshine Ink, Tahoe Quarterly, and Tahoe Weekly

PINE NUTS:: Two Cans and a String
A good friend drove an hour to have lunch with me in my kitchen. I can’t speak for him, but I’ve been in a good mood since. There are some health-giving qualities about one-on-one conversations that elevate them to the realm of tonics. Think back to how fun it was to talk to a friend as a child with two cans and a string.
Somehow, as we matured, we found value in chatrooms, Zoom, and other social media conveniences that tend to sideline personal conversations between two people.
Can you even have a conversation with more than two people, or does three people constitute a conference? In my experience, I’ve found that a two-person conversation develops a rhythm of its own, resembling a folksong without the music. I ask you, when was the last time you held a meaningful conversation with one other person for longer than five minutes?
I would like to ask Mr. Putin when he last held a meaningful conversation with one other person for longer than five minutes. The photo of Putin sitting at that looong table comes to mind.
Some of the charm in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn can be found in the casual conversations Huck and Jim have while floating down the Mississippi together on a raft…
“I read considerable to Jim about kings and dukes and earls and such, and how gaudy they dressed, and how much style they put on, and he was interested,” and he says: “I didn’ know dey was so many un um. I hain’t hearn ’bout none un um, skasely, but ole King Sollermun, onless you counts dem kings dat’s in a pack er kards. How much do a king git?”
“Get?” I says; “why, they get a thousand dollars a month if they want it; they can have just as much as they want; everything belongs to them.”
“Ain’t that gay? En what dey got to do, Huck?”
“They don’t do nothing! Why, how you talk! They just set around.”
It is in the course of their personal conversations that Huck comes to realize how much he and Jim have in common, and how he has come to consider Jim a friend. While society’s conscience is telling Huck to write a letter revealing Jim’s whereabouts, his personal conscience tells him to tear up that letter…
“It was a close place. I took it up and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: ‘All right, then, I'll go to hell’- and tore it up.”
How much good literature do we owe to the conversations of two characters? How many of our own life changing decisions do we owe to such personal conversations?
I’ll close here with resolve to pick up the phone, and invite a friend over tomorrow for lunch…

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