Lovely 2-bedroom house, pool, hot tub on 5 acres in Marin County woods

Description

This is our family home, available in fall and spring, located on five acres of forest in the San Geronimo Valley. Enjoy a capacious indoors, or jump in the solar-heated pool, lounge in the hot tub and drink your beverage of choice by the fire pit in the evening. A well tended vegetable and flower garden surrounds the house`. A little gazebo, on a secluded knoll in the woods, provides a romantic/meditative ‘retreat within a retreat.’ The entire property is very private, shielded from neighbors and the road. The main house consists of two large bedrooms (one upstairs with a private garden entrance and its own full bath), a huge living room with grand piano, wood-burning fireplace, HD-TV and comfortable sofa, a dining room and open, well-equipped kitchen. Around the pool are: our veggie and flower garden which will provide you with delicious food and floral displays, The office (w/printer and scanner and strong wifi) which is attached to Daniel's library--a writer's eclectic lifetime of reading--please delve. Many historic comix and children's books included A hot tub, outdoor shower, multiple pool floats, loungers galore, fire pit and bbq round out the outdoors festivities. Twenty yards from the house is Jamie's large, airy painting studio which is available to guests as well. Everything on the property is for guests’ private access. There are sweet neighborhood dogs that will stay outside the fence (unless you invite them in.) If you don't like dogs, this may not be the right place for you. Speaking of animals, there are goats next door, deer on the road, hawks and turkey vultures, owls, coyotes and raccoons at night, gophers on the hillside, quail strutting, wild turkeys (ridiculous birds who look like gangstahs marching down the road), squirrels, Western Fence Lizards and so on. You get the picture. It's the country--with urbanized delights but still the country. It's a place for people who like nature. Jamie and Daniel will be in France with US phone access. Our very competent (also: nice) son, Mickey, lives in a cottage a hundred yards away, and is available to help with with anything that arises. Lagunitas/Forest Knolls itself is basically a wide spot in the road (though with a saloon, deli, quite good Indian restaurant, veterinarian, farmstand, cafe, post office and the estimable Marin Tack and Feed.) This is o "Car Country!; you will need one. We can discuss using one of ours. It is great biking country as well and we have an electric bike and various road bikes available for guests.