Hello!
Today was kind of long
I got up before 6 and started a couple projects here before heading to Oroville
Traffic going down the hill was light but boy o boy it's not once you get into town with 2 lanes headed each way bumper to bumper and left turn lanes and right turn lanes ....but moving smoothly.it's very well planned .
i headed out to Walmart, the last stop before the highway . it was packed, being the only store of it's kind for miles and miles. I was on a mission to get a black vneck t-shirt but they didn't have any in the larger sizes. So i picked up a couple basil plants and one tomato plant instead. It's a little late but the plant looked so sturdy.
then i went to the food ware house picked up 2 peaches and some eggs. just wanted to check the place out.
and i hit the dollar store to get some bottles of ammonia. the scent of ammonia is supposed to keep bears out of the garden if you soak rags in it and hang them off of the fence. i sprinkled some all around the yard. i need to find some rags in the garage i think.
i also stopped at the frozen yogurt place , its yummy and 98% fat free!
The drive up to Berry Creek from Oroville was quite fragrant due to the basil rolling around the back of the little Subaru, Forester
i hung out sheets again, this time out of the little guest house, which im getting ready for company..
well, one thing im learning is , maybe living alone in the wilderness is not for me after all. not at my age.
its a gorgeous place though. once you leave the pavement on Bald Rock Road you head up Centurian Way, which leads right into the garage. I'dd say the drve is about 350 yards. On the right are 2 houses on the road and another one behind those two. On the left is an old orchard , and a meadow and a lot of blackberry bushes. somewhere in that mess is also the foundation of a old homestead. but about 200 yards in it turns to Pine and Madrone and Oak along the road, all tall, all old. when you reach the wroght (sp)iron fence you proceed across the gravel into the garage.
between the fence and the garage is enough room to park about 8 cars, if you don't count the drive way to the right of the garage and the driveway that goes between the back of the house and the studio, guest house and 2 storage sheds. All hand built by Al and i think Dad helped too.
there are stained glass windows in the studio, its a 2 room quilting
studio for Mary, and stained glass in the guest house too. These windows were all designed and created by Mary. im going to take photos of everything. the house is in between the garage and the out buildings everything is in kind of a Y formation the house being in the middle of the Y and the garage being on the right of the bottom of the Y and the other buildings being on the left of the top of the Y . On the right of the top of the Y is the patio/deck and some really great raised beds for perennials built by Al out of shale rock. there is also a concrete patio across the length of the house , it would be considered the front of the house all the doors are there and it faces the perennial garden and then across the fence and down the hll across the meadow , on the right side of the meadow is the lower pond. all together there are 9 structures on the property, including a barn, a tool shed, a spring house, garage, house, guest house, studio, two storage sheds....and there is also a well house.
from the upstairs bedroom window, which faces east, you can view the barn and the orchard, below that is the veggie garden and grape arbor and roses, if you're looking in that direction to the right of those enclosure s is the Meadow, it, is probably about 3 acres surrounded by stands of pine and there is a boggy , area that runs through it . it's more of a spring, the same one that fills the pond and in this kind of year there is so much water it over flows and creates the little bog/creek/spring. It's usually dried up by now.
tomorrow i hope to get up early and ride up to bald rock before i start any projects. maybe stop by to say hello to Larry. but ill see.....maybe ill just sleep in.
hope you are all well.
love and miss you
mom/sal
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