In 2000, we moved from the city to the country of California in the Sierra foothills near Bass Lake. For…
Starting from scratch - Then and now Laying out garden beds in clay and decomposed granite is the way you…
I'm only mentioning my impressions of the house pad prep, because to tell it all would be very boring. Although,....we…
We had a dream to move out of Southern California to paradise on seven acres in the Sierra foothills. Here is…
Our adventure We had a dream to move out of Southern California away from the congestion and stress and switch…
House place, mountain, barn wood, waterfalls, these words describe the place we found in the mountains near Yosemite and Bass…
In a series of Then and Now photos, it's satisfying to look back nostalgically to see how far we have…
When we first saw our property and took the first photos there was somewhat of a circle drive that became…
Alexander Selkirk was a Scot whose adventures on an uninhabited island were reputed to be the basis for Daniel Defoe’s…
This is a November 2001 entry from my recently found diary. The diary chronicles how we bought the property and our first…
Last year we had built a retaining wall and I couldn't resist planting a few things like rosemary and lavender.…
After buying property in October 2000, we started the building and site preparation process, by having the house pad graded and…
April 7-14, 2002 On the afternoon we arrived, the whole group came to our place for a barbecue. Larry had…
This is a transcript of the diary I kept during the first years of our transition to the mountains. We…
On this trip our objective is to have the lot graded and have a couple loads of gravel, or mine…
We arrive with several objectives. I want to build a table of redwood somewhere, rake out the goat shed, attached…