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
A few weeks ago Otto, our Chief of Vermin Control, had yet another stroke from which he miraculously seems to have recovered after being on death’s doorstep for a week. This is not only really hard since he is a beloved member of our family but it also laid bare a business problem
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Once again, it’s been a while since we’ve written a blog so here’s an update. As I wrote last month, we obtained our conditional use permit, although we are still working out some of the details with a few county departments. In the meantime we are working on the
You might remember that after I finished building our Yome I wanted to build a bathroom (outhouse) behind it so that anyone staying in the yome has some additional comforts. I also mentioned that due to the bark beetle infestation many of our big trees have died, but since our neighbor now has a sawmill
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Great News! Finally! We haven’t written a blog lately because for the past two months we were preoccupied with preparing for our hearing at the Planning Commission for our conditional use permit and didn’t want to write anything that would give anyone who might object to our project a stick to hit us
As you all saw in my one of my previous entries we now have this beautiful Yome Home that is spacious, comfortable and cute but it is was lacking in one thing: a bathroom. We’ve all been in hotels or have rented a house or a room or even have stayed
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Last week we were told that there was an atmospheric river forming that would hit the west coast on the weekend. On Saturday I saw people on social media making fun of the fact that there was no real rain and jokingly implying that we all might have been warned for just
I like to spend the downtime over the holidays cleaning up, organizing, and trying to get to things that have been on my ‘to do’ list way too long. This year I’ve been going through old files trying to get rid of papers I don’t need anymore. I have a lot of files
