Siskiyou County, California, USA…

Some basic repeat info first…Siskiyou County is located at the far northern end of California.  We are the REAL Northern California.  We fight for our status of being THE Real NORTHERN CALIFORNIA!!!  Siskiyou County has about 40,000 people give or take a thousand or two.  About 50,000, probably more,  Black Cows call Siskiyou County home and a Million Deer enjoy brunch on my freshly planted pansies. More on that later.  If you need a auto body job, this is the county for you.  If you are a resident of this county, you will meet a Black Cow on a country road.  The darn cows are always black, never a white cow on the road, or even a brown and white cow….always black cows and always VERY LARGE BLACK COWS.  AND they are always on the road at night…

So picture this, you are driving on the well-maintained county road doing the posted speed limit and the next thing you know you have a black cow on your hood.  BAM!!! Radiator is spouting steam, poor cow is dead, you fumble for your cell phone to call 911.  The California Highway Patrol shows up, obtains all of the pertinent info from you: Name, Address, Drivers License, Insurance Info and then you tell ‘em you were only going 55 mph.  Cop rolls his eyes ’cause he knows the law.  If you hit a cow in this county, YOU are going to fast.  You see this is an “Open Range” County.  You hit a cow, you are going to fast.  AND, get this: YOU owe the rancher for the price of the cow!!!! AND YOU DO NOT GET TO KEEP THE BEEF!!! “What do you mean?  I just paid you for that dead cow, the beef is mine”.  Not gonna happen….

Now, lets talk about Bambi….and her 999,999 relatives that call Siskiyou County home.  If you live in this county, you will meet a deer.  It is not an if, it is WHEN you hit a deer.  “Oh, those cute, beautiful, adorable deer” you might say.  I hate ‘em…lol.  Every year they come in and have brunch on my pansies…and petunia’s!  So you might say, don’t plant those flowers.  Well, I learned my lesson, I am not planting them this year.  Last year I planted just a few of them, just for color, you know the annuals have the absolute best colors. Well, as there wasn’t enough of those pretty flowers to go around, the deer got upset and yanked up all the Snap Dragons, and just plain spit them out! I spent every morning during the summer replanting the snaps and cussing the deer out!

So, picture this, you are driving down the very well-maintained county road IN BROAD DAYLIGHT and….well you get the picture.  The Deer in Siskiyou County fall out of the sky! They don’t walk across the road, they FALL OUT OF THE SKY.  How else do they get hit?  If you saw them crossing the road, you could react!!!  Unless there is a human injury, half the time the cops don’t even show up.  I don’t know the exact statistics, but I would hazard a guess that at least five deer are hit every day in this county.  That is why the Auto Body Repair Shops do very well in this county.

Siskiyou County:

• Where you can see the surrounding hills…

• Where you can smell the roses in bloom (unless the deer ate them)…

• Where you can see the Big Dipper…

• Where you know your entire community by first name…

• Where if you don’t wave at the oncoming car, you are thought to be a tourist…

• Where you know all the dogs by name…

• Where a traffic jam is three cars at the stop light (about 12 of them in the ENTIRE County)…

• Where you can sit on your back deck and watch the wildlife have a snack or two…

• Where if you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes…

Siskiyou County: Simply The Most Beautiful Place in California…in my humble opinion…