Riverside County, CA

Riverside County, Menifee is located in this county, is one of the 50 counties in Californa and covers 7208 square miles in the southern part of the state,  It stretches from Orange County, west to all the way to the Colorado River at the Arizona border, east, San  Bernardino County, north and San Diego and Imperial Counties, south.  San Bernardino and Riverside Counties together form what is known as the "Inland Empire", an urban metropolitan area 27,000 square miles and is home to 4 million people.  It is the 13th most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. and the 3rd largest in California.  Riverside county was once mostly argricultural.  The farms began declining in the 20th century and started to become a restidental area for affordable housing and has become one of the fastest growing regions in the state.  There are some famous resort cities in the county that you may have heard of including Indian Wells, La Quinta, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert and Palm Springs.  The county was founded in 1893 and is the birth place of Lane Markings on roadways as well as the birthplace of modern Native American gaming enterprises (there are 12 different Indian Reservations in Riverside Co.)   The population of Riverside county is 2,189,641 with a median income of $42,887 and a median age of 33.
Yesterday was a chilly and raining day in southern California.  It has not rained here for quite a while and the local news, in LA, was all about the rain.  Coming from a state where rain is a daily occurrance in the summer;  it seems weird to listen to the instructions given on how to drive in the rain on the news.  Places that are 8,000 ft above sea level got snow.  I am waiting for the clouds to clear so I can  see if Mt. Baldy, 10,000 ft above sea level, has snow on it.  We did not do much of anything yesterday but stay in and out of the cold, rainy weather.  We actually had to put the heat on.   I did finish a big stamping project for my sister and Tim and I watched a couple of movies.  Today the sun is out and the skies are clearing. The rain has moved on and it is suppose to get warm again for the week end and all of next week.  This afternoon we will head south to  Carlsbad, I am spending the week end with my sister again due to another stamping event.  Next week we will become tourists again and will journey out to Big Bear, Hollywood, the LA area and some of the local attractions in the Riverside Co area.  Keep checking back!