Life, Lived Better – Outdoors
An Early Christmas Gift
I know it’s “Only” 14 weeks away, but some of us have to start Now!
Why are we starting now, you may ask? Well, in case you didn’t know, our family owned and operated business will be converting our Riverside, Patio World Showroom, to a Christmas wonderland! For over 40 years Christmas World at Patio World has been the Inland Empire’s largest and only fully dedicated Christmas Store. Treasured items that cannot be found anywhere else.
We scour the globe looking for exquisite, one-of-a kind items that you will cherish and pass down for generations. All while still maintaining the quality and affordable pricing that our clients look and expect from our store. Christmas Trees, ornaments, wreaths, garlands, all kinds of decor, & more! It’s a sight to behold.
So, this is why we are starting NOW – turning Patio World into Christmas World, but we need your help. This is where your present comes in. To clear out the showroom floor, we are having an unprecedented sale – discounting all our floor model items up to 70% OFF! Click here to view this early Christmas Present. If it’s on our showroom floor you save BIG!
Now is the “Opportunity of the Year” to get that new, luxurious outdoor living set, or that final piece you have been waiting for, or stock up now and get ready for your next outdoor event with huge savings (think umbrellas, cushions, stacking chairs, and the like)!
Help your wallet, help your backyard, and help us clear the showroom to get ready for our Christmas Spectacular. Hurry, this offer ends September 30th.
P.S. – Christmas World will be open at the end of October.
Season’s Greetings!
Wayne Romain
Patio World
Life, Lived Better – Outdoors
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(WBR) Wayne’s Book Review
My New Year’s Resolution / Goal for the year is to read one book a month. And aren’t you lucky – You get a rare glimpse into the mind of Wayne Romain and his take on said book. Just so you know, I’m not a reader. In the last 10 years, I have probably read six or seven books at the most. No literary giant here, but like a lot of things in life, you get outside your element, do things you don’t normally do, and you might learn something.
What does this have to do with the outdoors? Maybe nothing. Maybe a lot. But it does represent another pastime that we can enjoy (or muddle through) in The Outdoors.
This month’s book:
by William Alsup (2005)
Missing in the Minarets details the mysterious disappearance of Peter Starr, a young San Francisco attorney from a prominent family, who set off to climb alone in the rugged Minaret region of the Sierra Nevada in July 1933. Rigorous and thorough searches by some of the best climbers in the history of the range failed to locate him despite a number of promising clues. When all hope seemed gone and the last search party had left the Minarets, mountaineering legend Norman Clyde refused to give up. Climbing alone, he persevered in the face of failure, resolved that he would learn the fate of the lost man.
The book gives a decent description of mountaineering and exploration of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range during the 1920s-1930s. An era before cell phones, handheld radios, heck, even arial searches were not commonplace (Note: The search for Peter Starr was the first ever by air over the Sierra Nevada – utilizing a bi-plane). It was truly untouched land. It investigates the people and personalities of those who attempted to explore and conquer it’s many peaks, valleys, and open spaces.
Personally, I did get lost a few times in the minutia of the story told in the book. Random people here and there, thrown in at different intervals, left me turning the pages backwards to try to figure out who they were. Could be my simplistic mind though.
It is an all-encompassing book, none the less. Detailing all the family members, friends, business associates, school mates, and more who was connected to Peter Starr during his short life. The book also includes the searchers, the people who did not know him personally, but were trying to find him, dead or alive. Doing this wholeheartedly and selflessly, to give his family some closure.
This book offers a small glimpse of why very disparate people are attracted to this very unique area. Coming from all walks of life to not only enjoy nature, but to be an intimate part of nature. (See Peter’s poem below).
On a scale of 1-10, I’d give it a 6.
Note: This is my unprofessional, biased, informal review. I make no claims and receive no money or support for my reviews. It’s just an extrapolation from the mind of WR.
La Última Palabra (The Last Word)
God’s wilderness is calling me
To shining summits, bright and cool
The mountain trails from snow are free
The flashing trout are in the pool.
All winter long, the lure and spell
Of glittering lakes and towering trees
Of rushing streams and pine tree smell
And flowering meadows haunted me.
Of all the peace on earth there’s none
Like evening in my camp fire gleam
No shrine like God’s own starlit dome
Nor wine like waters from my stream.
What song like sylvan solitude
Stirred softly by the snow kissed breeze
Or water ouzel’s sweet notes tuned
To swirling stream’s glad melodies.
Lure of Sierra, wild and free
Jewels deep set in shining skies
Defiant mountains beckon me
To glory and dream in their paradise.
~Peter Starr: Taken from notes left in his campsite when he became “Missing in the Minarets”
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Whether at home or out in the wild, take it all in. Remember that life is truly lived better outdoors.
Take care,
WR
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