We had a dream to move out of Southern California to paradise on seven acres in the Sierra foothills. Here is…
This is a November 2001 entry from my recently found diary. The diary chronicles how we bought the property and our first…
There are a certain number of plants that I brought from our previous garden in Southern California. The zone is…
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…
May 23-28, 2002 Memorial Day! Madeline had her prom (Derek’s senior prom) so we went up alone. Jolie was working…
April 25-28 Wooden goat for the goat shed We snuck up here on the flimsy excuse that a bike race…
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…
Russ called Larry to say there’s a fire on Rd 274, our road! Said he’d try to find out more.…
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…
One idea was to match paint colors of our home to colors of the trees, plants and flowers right here…
We arrive with several objectives. I want to build a table of redwood somewhere, rake out the goat shed, attached…
Our dreams are knocked out of our heads on November 10. Our daughter, Jolie has been struck by a car…
This area around Oakhurst has everything we need and we had such a good feeling about it, ...enough so that…