Our diary-the first five years
Choosing a home builder in the Sierra Foothills
We had a dream to move out of Southern California to paradise on seven acres in the Sierra foothills. Here is…
Scale Map of the Sierra Foothill Garden
This is a November 2001 entry from my recently found diary. The diary chronicles how we bought the property and our first…
June 2005-Plants Brought from Home
There are a certain number of plants that I brought from our previous garden in Southern California. The zone is…
February framing and planting without a hose
Last year we had built a retaining wall and I couldn't resist planting a few things like rosemary and lavender.…
Country means outbuilding first, house later
After buying property in October 2000, we started the building and site preparation process, by having the house pad graded and…
Memorial Day 2002
May 23-28, 2002 Memorial Day! Madeline had her prom (Derek’s senior prom) so we went up alone. Jolie was working…
Bike race down 007 trail
April 25-28 Wooden goat for the goat shed We snuck up here on the flimsy excuse that a bike race…
Easter week 2002
April 7-14, 2002 On the afternoon we arrived, the whole group came to our place for a barbecue. Larry had…
Autumn 2001- Settling into camp
This is a transcript of the diary I kept during the first years of our transition to the mountains. We…
August 2001- Fire Strikes!
Russ called Larry to say there’s a fire on Rd 274, our road! Said he’d try to find out more.…
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