Sloughhouse, CA

Black Friday BABY

I’ve had my vitamins, done my pushups, I’m going in…cover me.

The City of Elk Grove’s e-tran department will be offering additional weekend and evening services to help make local shopping more convenient.

Shopper shuttle

This is Great news for those of us shopping locally for the holidays. Elk grove is kicking off a “Think Shop live Elk Grove” holiday Shopping Program. See post here.

Beginning this Saturday, local e-tran routes 157 and 162 will be available on weekends and the Shopper shuttle will be available weeknights. These added routes are designed to reach shopping, dining and entertainment establishments throughout Elk Grove . See Schedule here: www.e-tran.org

Enjoy your Shopping, support your neighbors, and save me a seat on the bus.

“I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.” Tammy Faye Bakker

Short Sale Agent Sacramento-Just Sold Short Sales in Sacramento

Congratulations to the lucky buyer of this Sacramento short sale.

9200 Elder Creek Rd, Sacramento, CA 95829 sold 11/23/10 for $165,000. It's a 2 bedroom/1 bath home but the real value is the 1.4 acre lot!

American Home Mortgage was the short sale lender on this property. They were a pleasure to work with an offered a very quick short sale approval.

Allan Sanchez represented the seller of this Sacramento short sale and is a Sacramento short sale expert.

Find out if you qualify for a short sale in Sacramento.

If you were to take Jackson Road-Highway 16 out of Sacramento, while traveling mostly east, but a tad south for a half hour or so, you would come upon the delightfully rural community of Sloughhouse.

Although the community is quiet and somewhat small, it does enjoy rich history.

As Sacramentans and other visitors to the area shuffle through Sloughhouse today, they often stop at the Davis Ranch Farmer's Market for ears of corn, which is prized among locals as being the best available. The area is a popular stopping off point for Sacramento County folks hoping for a pleasant drive up the highway further to Gold Rush Country. A few miles beyond Sloughhouse, you can take Highway 49 (the Gold Rush Highway), and travel on through Amador City, Sutter Creek, Jackson, and destinations beyond - making for a delightful day trip.

Sloughhouse is a verdant valley which acts as a floodplain for Deer Creek and the Cosumnes River. Prior to becoming known for its corn growing capacity, its land was mainly tended for the growth of hops. Traveling back in time a generation or so, would have you revisiting the area and finding trellises of hops growing up V shaped wires 20+ feet or so.

Early history records that on a summer evening in 1840, William Daylor, one of John Sutter's cooks became one of the first noted white men to visit the area. Daylor came upon the valley while conducting a search for some of the livestock belonging to his boss.

The area was found populated by Miwok Indians. Daylor later returned to the area with a friend, Jared Dixon Sheldon, who in 1844 acquired a Mexican land grant of approximately 20,000 acres. Sheldon had a reputation for getting along with the Indians.

For more history on the area you can click on the following link: Sloughhouse History

Scramento County Pumpkin Patches

Halloween is just around the corner, so local pumpkin patches are in full gear. We have some great ones close to home so you have no excusse not to go have some serious old fashioned fun. Take someone you love, or borrow some kids, but what ever you do GO.

For an interactive map of ALL the patches in nearby counties check out:
Sacramento Bee Pumpkin Patches

The Real voyage of discovery

consists not in seeking new landscapes

but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust.

Keep Going.

I tell myself this, I tell my friends this, sometimes I forget this and I need them to tell me.

Yesterday was one of those days.

I love my garden. I need my garden. My garden is a huge part of who I am. It always amazes me that a tiny little seed can turn into a bushel of tomatoes. My garden reassures me that miracles happen everyday and all the time.

So when I got there after a long, (productive, but long) day I was devastated to find that the sheep had gotten in and helped themselves to my abundant patch of heaven.

When I say sheep, I don’t really mean “sheep” I mean Frieda. She is the trouble making queen of the pack. I’ve had her more than 10 years, she comes when I call, and she watches everyday for any tiny laps in my garden security. Yesterday she found it. I shut the gate, but I didn’t CHAIN the gate. She can open any thing not chained. So she had a party and invited her friends.


No tomato plants, tomato stubs. No melon patch, squash patch, bean patch or sunflowers. Just a bunch of happy sheep with vegetable breath.


So what did I do? Well first I called a friend, and properly grieved. Then I rolled up my sleeves and started to re-plant. Not all at once, just a little, tomorrow a little more. I think it is a good lesson about Real Estate, about life, about what is next for you.

Are you upside down on your mortgage? Have you been working on a contract that just disintegrated? Are you looking at a bunch of stubs where you use to have hope and take delight? OK grieve, but not too much grief or you will forget where you are going. Roll up your sleeves and go.

Regroup.

Plant the seeds of what you want your life to look like. This season is temporary.

They all are. Keep planting.

By perseverance, the snail reached the ark. Charles Spurgeon