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One of the best things about the Sierra Nevada mountains (and there are plenty of great things!) is the proximity to so much to do year-round. As we roll into March the arrival of spring is in the air at Reverie Retreat, but just short drive away at Royal Gorge, there is plenty of […]
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Like millions of other people in Northern California, we have experienced several power outages in the past few weeks. But unlike most of the customers, we have not had power for a total of 10 days in October – that is 1/3 of the month! We do have a portable back-up generator, which we installed
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Every spring we have watched a pair of Canada geese occupy their nest on top of our potting shed, protecting the eggs they’ve laid there and eyeing us suspiciously for weeks as we walk to and fro nearby. Yet every year they have departed without succeeding in their quest for a family. Something always seems
It’s been quite a while since we’ve posted a blog and there is a lot to report. First of all, our pool is finally finished. It is beautiful, but goodness, dealing with the pool contractors for the past five months was a total pain in the ***. I recently heard someone compare pool contractors to
You would think that owning 32 acres in the forest would mean we would never need to buy a Christmas tree. That’s certainly what we thought when we moved up here. And the first few years Ramon did cut down smallish cedar trees and bring them inside to stand in for our tree. They made
Five years. That’s how long ago we purchased the property for Reverie Retreat. If you had told us in 2012 how complicated it would be, and how long it would take, we most likely wouldn’t have done it. It’s probably best that we didn’t know. And yet, here we are, five years later, and things
This year my garden has been a bit of a disappointment. Partially my own doing, but not completely. I always get excited when I order seeds for different kinds of peppers and tomatoes back in February, imagining everything I will do with them once they ripen later in the summer. But the time lag between
The other day we went on a hike a little higher in elevation from Reverie retreat on the Lyons creek. We were expecting it to be nice but also that the forest would be pretty dry when further from the creek. But were we surprised when we entered a bouquet of wild flowers all around
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We are finally starting to make progress on Reverie’s project development. We finalized the Wildfire Prevention Plan, which had to be done before we could move forward on anything else. Preparing this plan required hiring a Registered Forester to prepare a draft plan that could pass muster with two different fire agencies: the local
As some of you know and have seen we are fortunate to have a lot of water on our property.One of the best things is the “irrigation ditch” in which we have the rubber ducky race. But when we are not duck racing we use the ditch water for irrigating our fruit trees, vegetables
5760 Spanish Flat Rd
Garden Valley, CA 95633
