Today I want to share with you a true story about the law of attraction and staying positive.

Gordon, my husband, and I "re-met" in 1996 (there is a longer story to this) and we were married in 1998. He came to me because I drew him to me (and he me) using the law of attraction. I created a list (he just asked out loud) of the attributes that I wanted in my ideal "soul-mate" and I got them! Of the list I created he matched the list with a 93% rating (I'm an accountant in my day job).

Just prior to our marriage we talked about where we wanted to live or what we wanted to do I knew one thing I had to get out of suburbia.

We talked about buying a larger sailboat and sailing abroad (and we tell ourselves we would have been in New Zealand participating somehow in the making of the Lord of the Rings); we talked about maybe instead buying a houseboat, but in reality neither one of us really wanted to do these things. I heard the call of the Sierra. So I suggested to Gordon that we should move there. He said look for property.

I used to live in the Sierra Nevada in California (which is a mountain range that runs almost the length of the state north to south - and technically stops right outside of Bakersfield) and I love it! Translated from the Spanish the words are Snowy Mountain Range which is the case during winter.

Running along the toes and into the feet of these mountains is a road called the Golden Chain Highway Highway 49. It marks the same trail the 1849er's used to traverse the Sierra in search of gold.

I knew I wanted to be above highway 49 but what county? There are nine "Golden Chain" counties in the Sierra Nevada and these counties are considered "Gold Country."

Having traversed them myself in earlier years I looked at all the counties but selected El Dorado which in Spanish means "The Golden." I can't tell you why I picked El Dorado, but it had a good highway to it that would allow me to retain work in the valley near Sacramento without too long of a commute and of the nine it seemed the most progressive county.

It basically sits in the center of Gold Country and has its place in history as the location gold was first discovered in a Coloma saw mill on January 24, 1848. This sparked the famous gold rush to California.

So I went online we decided a price we were willing to pay for land I wanted trees Gordon wanted meadows and found MLS listings. The MLS provides prices, locations and descriptions

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