Photos of our pets, our farm animals, our surrounding natural habitat and our wildlife visitors!
Our pets
Our farm animals
The Golden Girls: Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, and Betty White 
Our Silver Appleyard, Peggy Carter 
Peggy Carter and Carol Danvers, our Silver Appleyard sisters 
Friends chicks: Phoebe , Monica, and Rachel
Our wildlife visitors
Our natural habitat
Valley Center was the site of the capture of the largest California Grizzly Bear in history. In 1866, a grizzly weighing 2,200 pounds was killed in the area. Although the town had been settled in 1845 and homesteaded in 1862, it had no formal name until the famous 1866 bear incident. The notoriety surrounding the event gave Valley Center its original name of Bear Valley. The name was subsequently changed to Valley in 1874, to Valley Centre in 1878 and, finally, to Valley Center in 1887. (source: https://www.vchistory.org/exhibits/grizzly-bear/)