BOOM!!
Sooooo………. yesterday at work Barbara and I hear a boom. A boom that sounded more like a Boeing 747 was falling from the sky than just a boom. Like any self respecting Californian Barbara and I head outside. (Yes, I’m one of those crazies on 4th of July and New Years Eve that goes outside when the local idiots shoot guns into the sky! What can I say… I’m nosy!) This was no short boom it was long and drawn out, I can’t describe it well enough to convey the noise. The only thing that comes close to the noise is a 747 that sounds like it’s going to crash in your backyard. Seemed like the entire complex came outside to find the source. No lines in the sky, no planes anywhere to be seen. No news reports to be found either. ODD beyond ODD!!
That was yesterday. Today we got answers! Today we have drama surrounding this boom. HA!! I’m not going crazy! (Okay well, I mean surrounding the big boom noise anyway)
ESCONDIDO — One man was arrested Thursday following an explosion in the backyard of a home that left a gardener seriously injured, and part of Interstate 15 in Escondido will be closed Friday morning as the investigation continues, sheriff’s officials said.
The 49-year-old gardener called 911 about 12:50 p.m. and told sheriff’s dispatchers he had stepped on something that exploded, and had a puncture wound to his arm, said sheriff’s Lt. Jim Duffy. He was taken to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido.
Another gardener who was at the house at the time, Enrique Domingo, 23, said he thought his co-worker, Mario Garcia, stepped on a “bomb.”
Garcia was in serious condition Thursday night, a hospital spokesman said.
The sheriff’s bomb squad, the FBI, deputies and firefighters responded to the home on Via Scott in an unincorporated area of Escondido north of El Norte Parkway and west of Interstate 15. Some neighbors were evacuated.
Sheriff’s spokeswoman Jan Caldwell said Thursday night that George Jakubec, 54, a resident of the home, was arrested on suspicion of possession of destructive material, manufacture of destructive material, and unlawful possession of explosives.
One neighbor, Lauranell Latulippe, said she heard a big blast that rattled her windows and blinds. Another neighbor, Jack Whirlow, said he has heard three or four explosions during the past two weeks in the area, but was unsure exactly where they came from.
Brian Haghighi, 24, said he has heard blasts as from an M-80 firecracker coming from his neighbor’s property periodically.
Interstate 15 from El Norte to Centre City parkways will be closed from 9 a.m. to noon Friday as the investigation continues, Caldwell said.
Here is another article with more information. Of course if I find more interesting tid bits I’ll and more posts.
Updating My SEO Because Even the Internet Needs a Good Declutter
If you’ve been poking around peanutbutterandwhine.com lately and thought, “Huh, something feels different,” congratulations. Your instincts are sharp and possibly paranormal.
I’m deep in the process of updating my SEO. Not the glamorous kind of update where confetti falls and Google personally thanks me, but the gritty, behind-the-scenes kind where old posts get dusted off, links get refreshed, and keywords are gently coaxed into behaving better. Think less makeover montage, more haunted house cleanup.
While revisiting early posts, I discovered something unsettling. Many of the original photos and videos have completely vanished. Not broken links. Not corrupted files. Gone. Poof. Into the digital ether. This can only confirm one thing: peanutbutterandwhine.com is haunted.
There is no other explanation. Sure, it could be old hosting changes, platform migrations, or me being wildly optimistic about my organizational skills a decade ago. But let’s be honest. It’s ghosts. Internet ghosts. Possibly annoyed by my early font choices.
So here I am, updating old posts with new images, clearer formatting, better internal linking, and SEO-friendly structure so Google can finally understand what I’ve been yelling into the void all these years. I’m also making sure posts connect to each other logically, like linking back to my ongoing fun stuff such as the Monthly $50 Your Way Giveaway right here:
👉 https://peanutbutterandwhine.com
Internal links help readers stick around, help search engines crawl the site, and possibly appease the spirits living in my archives.
I’m also adding relevant external links to trustworthy sources, because Google appreciates good neighbors. For example, SEO best practices straight from the pros over at Moz:
👉 https://moz.com/learn/seo
The goal isn’t to rewrite history. It’s to make sure my content is still useful, readable, and visible in a world where the internet changes faster than my craft room fills up.
If you stumble across a refreshed post, missing photos, or suspiciously improved clarity, just know it’s intentional. And if something disappears again overnight… I’ll be lighting a sage bundle and updating my alt text.
Stay tuned. The ghosts are watching. 👻