“What in the heck is going on with your property!?” (lop and scatter QC hill) Lumber stacked everywhere, branches and brush cut and then thrown on the hillside, black charred spots everywhere…what’s going on?! (Answer – “lop and scatter”.) We acquired our first (overgrown, fire prone) property in summer 2020, and promptly got to workContinue reading “Good Fire (2023)”
Category Archives: General News + Updates
Crocker RX timeline
July 23rd: Kept cutting back brush by the propane tank (buck brush + berry thing) Working thru S290 online July 22nd: Signed up for S219!!! Started on clearing buck brush next to propane tank July 21st: Started again cutting out chinquapin by QC retaining wall Measured + marked 30ft from the house July 20th: PUCContinue reading “Crocker RX timeline”
Bringing Good Fire Back
Fire is an essential part of the Sierra Nevada ecology! The longer we’re here and working the land, the more obvious it is that these plants depend on fire to clear underbrush and “reset”. So what’s one to do on the urban-wildland interface, with decades’ overgrown forests, in the face of wildfire and climate change?Continue reading “Bringing Good Fire Back”
So…what’s with all the piles of sticks?
As we clean up the property and work on hardening our home against wildfire, we end up with piles of sticks everywhere! And the question most people want to know…what do you do with it? The short answer – chip it, or burn it! Any sticks that are too big to fit in our chipperContinue reading “So…what’s with all the piles of sticks?”
The Future Garage
As we were pondering how and where to put some sort of permanent shed in the early summer…I noticed a familiar looking plot of land for sale online, for a good price. It was the lot just on the other side of the neighboring house. So I wandered down to see it person… And realizedContinue reading “The Future Garage”
WSJ on Cleaning Fees
As avid travelers on Airbnb, we hate the cleaning fee. Lynda in particular is vehemently opposed! So much so, in fact, that her ranting and raving online was noticed by a journalist writing a piece on cleaning fees! Check out our ‘fifteen seconds of fame’ in the Wall Street Journal: Why Airbnb Cleaning Fees CostContinue reading “WSJ on Cleaning Fees”
Dixie Fire – After (Lake Davis)
I’m writing this instead of attending a burn plan writing workshop thru the Plumas TREX/Underburn Coop…because the road was blocked and I didn’t bring the chainsaw with me. In retrospect, this was, of course, a rookie move on my part – I knew Dixie had raged thru this area last year, pretty hot and heavyContinue reading “Dixie Fire – After (Lake Davis)”
Cull Castle 