July 2001 The world’s most expensive campsite

This is a transcript of the diary I kept during the first years of our transition to the mountains. We…

23 years ago

May 2001- Grading for Mother’s Day

On this trip our objective is to have the lot graded and have a couple loads of gravel, or mine…

23 years ago

Design-Using the Colors of the Sierras

One idea was to match paint colors of our home to colors of the trees, plants and flowers right here…

23 years ago

April 2001-We turn our property into campsite

We arrive with several objectives. I want to build a table of redwood somewhere, rake out the goat shed, attached…

23 years ago

2000 November- one step forward and two steps back

Our dreams are knocked out of our heads on November 10. Our daughter, Jolie has been struck by a car…

24 years ago

October 2000-The adventure begins…we buy property

This area around Oakhurst has everything we need and we had such a good feeling about it, ...enough so that…

24 years ago