Anne Fashauer Anderson Valley Real Estate

Last year at this time, my beau and I took a wonderful road trip to the southwest.  This year we are doing it again, with a couple of twists.  Last year we spent a couple of days at the Grand Canyon, a week in Sedona, AZ, then a few days in Death Valley.  This year we are going to spend just one night in the Grand Canyon; we've ...

2011 was not a big year for sales in Anderson Valley.  There were ten residential sales and six land sales.  One of the residential sales was "distressed" meaning it was either a short sale or an REO (bank owned sale). In 2010, there were 12 residential sales and 10 land sales.  For a little comparison, in both 2000 and in ...

We've been home from Cabo for about two and a half weeks now and it seems worlds away.  We came home just before Christmas to a bit of madness - last minute shopping, a few delayed meetings and decorating the Christmas tree.  We did that last on Christmas eve itself!  We had family here for the holiday which was really nice, ...

Today is my last full day in Cabo for this trip; we fly home tomorrow.  We were here last year, but in November.  The two trips have been quite different.  Last year we were here during the tuna fishing tournament, which meant my beau only got to fish a couple of times.  There were a lot of people here and the weather was nice ...

A couple of weeks have passed since I last had a chance to sit and write.  In that time I finally visited Hyampom, the town where my beau is working part of the time.  It's a very remote, very rural place; it's quite pretty but it has nothing on Anderson Valley.  It's also very cold - the elevation of the valley is not ...

I have been thinking about the qualities of absence, of longing, and of loss recently.  My beau has taken a job that is about six hours away; it's part time but it's not the kind of part time where you work 25 hours a week.  It's the kind of part time that means you are gone for long stretches at a time, then back for a time ...

It seems the last of our Indian summer is upon us.  I have been daily, sometimes several times daily, following the local agriculture weather forecast, checking to see how many more days of sun we have left.  My grapes are still hanging and looking fabulous, the sugars seem perfect and we should be harvesting just before the rain ...

Last Wednesday I had the most wonderful day.  It took a little planning, but it was worth it.  It started with taking my horse, Jac, up to where my friend keeps her horse on the Holmes Ranch.  We took the boys (our horses) down Holmes Ranch road, across Smith Hills, and down Guntley.  Feeling ambitious, we decided to ride the ...

I spent the weekend before last at the Mendocino Women's Retreat, held at River's Bend in Philo.  This was the third year I have attended (and the third year of it's existence) and it was as wonderful as ever.  In some ways it felt like a reunion as I saw women I hadn't seen for the past year and yet with the unique theme ...

It seems as though Mother Nature wanted us to make sure we knew that the season was changing as she brought in a slight rain storm just as we passed through the autumnal equinox.  The air and the light have changed; the mornings are cooler, crisper, the afternoons filled with a golden tint and the last warmth of the year as the sun moves away ...