A little backtracking for those I may have missed. Two weeks ago we went up to the Grass Valley area and fell in love. The following Monday we made an offer on our dream house, and we went into escrow that Friday.
We were scheduled to head back up yesterday and today for paperwork and walk-throughs and final selections on materials, but it was snowing too hard up in Nevada City. We've rescheduled for Tuesday.
The house is just being finished. It's 3bd, 2 1/2 bath and den. The layout is great and it is very well built, with lots of windows. The 3 car garage will be our bonus/hobby room, and we are already planning to build a new garage/shed (with Rick's help it will all be properly permitted, as only he can).
The big selling point is the view from the back deck--the view we never thought we could obtain. From the wonderful back deck, we look out west to the Sutter Buttes, Coast Range, and the Sunset. While we were making our decision to make an offer post haste, all we could see in our heads was drinking wine on the back deck. Every little glitch in the process, we simply chanted our mantra--"Glass of wine on the back deck, glass of wine on the back deck, watching the sunsets with a glass of wine on the back deck"....
At about the 1300 foot elevation, we are below the snow line, in oaks and digger pines--all on 6 very natural acres. It's low maintenance, should the resident gardner prefer to keep it that way. We all know what that means. He is already pulling up and potting some of the heirloom plants from our present yard to take to the new. And did I mention the pond. We are entertaining all sorts of suggestions for stocking it--you can just imagine.
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