Mountain Life Adventures

We have been up on the mountain for 5 months now. It has been an unexpectedly simple lifestyle change for us, despite the snow and frequent, heavy rains. Fog rolls up the side of the mountains, bubbling like witches brew. We watch it far away in the valley below, changing, surging, and finally engulfing our […]

Yesterday we went to Costco and raided their box pile. It is a little weird to have a “favorite” box, but in this family, we do. The apple boxes are perfection. And so we made several trips past the hawk-eyed exit receipt-checkers, past the tire shop, past the pizza, past the registers, all the way […]

Our house was built in 1973 and is one of the 3 original model homes built in the entire country club development. It was surrounded by fields and olive trees at that time, and this home was built to attract wealthy and very upper-middle-class retirees who wanted a quiet, safe life in a nice home […]