This old ranch house was located on the McIntyre Ranch along the eastside of Indian Valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. We lived there from 1977 to 1979 when I worked on the Greenville Ranger District of the Plumas National Forest. The house had 5 rooms, including a bathroom, two bedrooms, a kitchen, utility room and living/dinning room combined. The were two wood stoves to heat the place when the temperature in the winter would go below freezing on many days. The lowest I remember was minus 5 and on some cold mornings there was frost on the inside of the windows. The water source was a spring back up from the house. There was a fenced garden, wood shed and barn behind the house. It was a seven mile drive to Greenville. The monthly rent was $100. Our daughter, Amy was born at the hospital in Quincy in 1978. The house burned down a few years after we moved.
I remember that house when Tom & I visited that area on a fall fishing trip the day Amy was born. We drove to hospital to learn you & Christine had already gone home & were doing housework. Tom never knew what those chickens were doing! Hmmm!
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