First half is for you Patsy! Candy Dance in Genoa, NV..

From some of the pictures I've posted it must be a little confusing as to what our property looks like if you haven't been here.  So because Patsy asked I'm going to try and explain.  Our home is a single wide mobile home with a stick frame addition that included a laundry area, Master bedroom and a small bathroom.  The house originally was a 2 bedroom 1 bath, previous owners added the addition.  Thank goodness or we wouldn't have looked at it, because I wanted 3 bedrooms for sure.  Originally Ken didn't want to look at it because it was ugly (yes it was)..but it had a huge shop area, so that did it for him.  Our little piece of heaven sits on 4.65 acres and we only paid $58,000 for it. Most of the work involved was cosmetic other than Ken wanted city water not well water (that you couldn't drink). We had city water put in not long after we moved in. 

Our driveway going up to the house..

This is the front porch area of the house
Ken built the porch cover and drastically changed the looks
of the house.  House was a bright blue when we purchased it
so painting it really made a difference!

My kitchen window..the room on the right is our
Master Bedroom..

Side view of bedroom

Back view of property

From the road, 3 of our steel wheeled tractors

The trees are our side property lines, that's Ken's shop

The window of the master bedroom

The door leads into the laundry room, master bedroom..The
back of the house is our guest room. This is the view from near the
bunkhouse..

Two storage units next to Ken's shop

Our 23 foot Komfort fifth wheel that's hooked up to the septic system
for guests.

It's definitely not a place for everyone, but it works for us.  If you back in archives to Feb 27th 2013 there's lots of pictures that show the house when we bought it.  We definitely needed a vision for this one. 

If it weren't for the trees we could definitely leave for longer periods of time in the summer, but it is a real treat to have trees in the desert! We're only 3 1/2 hours from the Sacramento area which is where our kids and grandkids are, so that's a nice plus.  Yep, it's home...

Ken fixed a wine holder out of cement bricks..that way it won't
fall over from the wind.

We had a nice fire Friday evening..

We had a fire going, and our neighbor Joe called on his way home from Carson City.  It was Stacey's 41st birthday so he invited us out to dinner with them to celebrate.  I had cooked a turkey and all the trimmings so put those away until Saturday.  We went to Sherrie's Stage Stop, never been but food was really good.  Thanks, Joe for the invite! 


Saturday morning we set the alarm for 0400.  It takes us awhile to get going so we knew we needed the time.  I made some egg sandwiches for us to eat in the car and we were on the road about 0630 or so.  We were headed to Genoa, NV about 70 miles from here.  Yearly, they host The Candy Dance event.  The Candy Dance started in 1919 as a fundraiser to bring street lights to the little town. There's tons of craft vendors and some antiques to be looked at.  Two years ago we bought our hoosier cabinet that sits in the bunkhouse. Food and people! 

We got there just about 0800 or so.  It opened either 0800 or 0900 but because we had been before we knew we needed to get there early for parking.  Started out really cold, just about 19 degrees...brrr..once the sun hit it warmed up nicely...well not really, you sure couldn't take your coat off, but at least your fingers weren't freezing. 

Genoa, the oldest city in Nevada has some cute victorian homes
and I love this bridge crossing the creek..

Start of vendors as we're walking the street

Loved that 1 pink rose...

This was going in at 0811..

The difference at 1130 as we're leaving..people to people

A little tractor show..

This little boy was really riding the bull!

Fall has started..

Another one of these..

This was still early on...

We didn't find anything we had to have except we did support the Genoa Volunteer Fire Department. They were selling bloody mary's and screwdrivers so we decided to lend our support..hahah..boy did they make them awesome!  Too awesome for a Saturday morning!  We did buy a sweatshirt and a coffee cup to support them too. 

And it's time to leave! 

We went to lunch at Carson Valley Inn and then home.  Lazy afternoon, really lazy afternoon!  Good thing dinner was cooked! 

This morning we met Joe and family along with Stacey's mom Susan at Dini's and had an awesome breakfast.  Susan insisted on buying our breakfast for our anniversary. Thank  you Susan!  

Back home and this is where I've been all day after getting the kitchen cleaned up from last night.  But that's ok, it's Sunday right?! 

Looks like Friday i'll be heading over to Cool, CA to watch Seth and Mason for the weekend as Eric and Christina are joining some friends in Fort Bragg, CA for the weekend.  I'm really looking forward to spending time with the grandsons! 

Adam stopped by my sister's yesterday and got hang out with
Owen!  Both were happy to see each other...:)

Hope you all are enjoying your Sunday as we are...