La Cresta Life with Kelly Smith

About La Cresta Life with Kelly Smith

This is La Cresta Life, the show that highlights the beautiful ranch communities of La Cresta and the Santa Rosa Plateau with your host Kelly Smith. Since 2002, Kelly has lived and worked in La Cresta as a community advocate involved in local causes, social activities and animal rescue. Kelly is the founder of the community website LaCresta.com where as a La Cresta specialist, she uses her expertise to help buyers and sellers have the best possible real estate experience.

Publisher

Kelly Smith

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Jan 2021

Latest episode

2 Jun 2021

Latest episodes

26 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Jun 2021

   What to do in Historic Downtown Murrieta?

   View the Video version of this Episode at: https://www.lacresta.com/2021/06/03/what-to-do-in-hi…owntown-murrieta/ (https://www.lacresta.com/2021/06/03/what-to-do-in-historic-downtown-murrieta/) Hey y'all, welcome back to La Cresta Life. Today, I took us on a field trip right down to Old Town Murrieta about 15-20 minutes down the hill from La Cresta. Our main street through Murrieta, (they call it Historic downtown Murrieta, sometimes people call it Old Town Murrieta) is the old Hwy 395 and that was the north-south route in California before the big freeways went in and it goes right through our little town. You can see it's quite a little Mayberry situation. We've got restaurants on both sides of the street and lots of activity. One of the newer things that and has been happening down here, is this two Thursday's a month in the evening, the town opens up to an evening lifestyle where the shops take their wares out on the sidewalks and the restaurants are all open and there's even food trucks and all kinds of music and and fun activities. So people are strolling. If you've ever seen Gilmore Girls, it reminds me a little bit of Stars Hollow - such a great place to be and a new development here in Murrieta. So thanks for joining me here at La Cresta life. Not in La Cresta this time but in historic Old Town, Murrieta. I enjoyed bringing this to you. It's just another little cherry on our Sunday here in Southwest Riverside County. We'll see you next time on La Cresta Life.

2. 

   2 May 2021

   Does La Cresta have a Micro-Climate?

   View the Video version of this Episode at: https://www.lacresta.com/2021/05/03/does-la-cresta-have-a-micro-climate/ Does La Cresta have a Micro-Climate? Hey, y'all! Welcome back to La Cresta life. You know, I'm often asked about the weather up here on the Santa Rosa Plateau. So today I'm going to explain how our micro-climate works. We're up here on the Santa Rosa Plateau about 2,000 feet higher than the valley floor. The Temecula Valley includes Temecula, Murrieta, Wildomar all the cities of the Temecula Valley, including the Temecula Wine Country, which is really close by. We are in the mountains that separate Riverside County from Orange County, and this gives us our own special weather up here. We truly have our own micro-climate. You've heard me talk about the different parts of the Plateau - 5 different homeowners associations, and Tenaja, a Community Service District. Depending on where you are on this couple of thousand acres up here on the Plateau, you will get a specific breeze. On the Tenaja side of things, often times, you're going to get coastal breezes that come through Deluz from San Diego. It's a different wind direction. On the side of La Cresta where I live, we actually get a breeze from the coast about 14 miles as the crow flies from the Pacific Ocean. Coastal breezes come from that direction over there. Behind those mountains is Catalina, my landmark for where our breezes come from, and give us the reprieve. When it is super hot down below in the Valley, it is often 10 to 15 degrees cooler up here on the Santa Rosa Plateau. Because of our elevation and our proximity to the ocean, we have beautiful breezes every afternoon. They come through between 2 and 4pm every afternoon to cool us off - a welcome event during the hot days of summer. With our micro-climate, we're always cooler in the summer. In the winter, we may be a little colder, and that's okay, too. We don't get a lot of freeze - just an occasional crazy snow, that doesn't stick. But otherwise, it's very temperate here. The weather here is very accommodating to all the fruit and vegetables that we grow here on our ranch. It's a wonderful micro-climate, great for growing grapes. U.C. Davis, many years ago, called us out as a fantastic grape-growing area -- probably one of the best in Southern California. So come on up and enjoy our coastal breezes here on the mountain. If you're looking for a temperate climate, a rural vibe, the conveniences of the city, and the ability to grow your own fruits and vegetables, this is it. You can have horses. You can have all kinds of animals in this temperate climate, right up here on the Santa Rosa Plateau. Signing off today from La Cresta. Thank you for joining us on La Cresta Life!

3. 

   8 Apr 2021

   What Cowboy Activities are there in La Cresta?

   View the Video version of this Episode at: https://www.lacresta.com/2021/04/09/what-cowboy-activities-are-there-in-la-cresta/ Hey y'all. Welcome back to La Cresta life. Today, we're going to talk about what cowboys and cowgirls do up here on the hill. We have a club up here called the Santa Rosa Plateau Riding Club. It's open to Residents who ride and those who don't ride. I haven't had horses up here in my whole 19 years after growing up with them in Texas, but I'm welcome. Everybody is welcome and it's a wonderful club to join because you have at least two events a month that you can attend. One as a potluck, and the other is an organized lunch, after the folks who do ride come in from the trails. So it's a great way to hang with the neighbors. One of the events is at night and one is in the day and it's a lovely way to get to know your neighbors in a different way. A couple weeks ago the Riding Club riders went on a trail ride and they came back to the organized lunch. Typically they're catered. So you just RSVP and pay your fee. The folks who ride come back in from the trails and we all sit down to lunch. At the last luncheon, the hostess and host (moves around every month) organized a sorting event. So we all finished our lunches and went up to their arena that had been partitioned off so that they could do the sorting event. We sat in their little grandstands that they had made and our local friends and neighbors who wanted to participate and sort were invited to do that. Some had never done it and some were pros, but such a fun event and makes you just feel like you are at dude ranch. It was just wonderful. I hope you enjoy the scenery of some that happening. Those are friends and neighbors. In fact, one of the clips of the sorting is the owner of the insurance company that I do all of my insurance with - Winchester Insurance in Murrieta. She and her husband are on horses, and it's just a delight to see people that you normally see in a different way, doing something completely different. So I hope you enjoy that. In summary, we neighbors have learned, and we all cultivate the idea, that we do not have to go off of our Plateau, out of our neighborhood to have fun. We do as many fun activities as we can up here, so we don't have to go elsewhere, and it has created a very tight community of people who may do some of the same things or not. But we all support each other. So it's an ideal place to live if you like to be outside and we sure do. I'll look forward to taking you along to some of the other things that we do. We don't always get dirty in a field. Sometimes we dress up . I'll keep you posted along the way of the social events that we have up here on the hill. In the meantime, it's great to see you. Come back and join us on La Cresta Life. I'll see you real soon.

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