Brick by brick, weekend warrior builds medieval retirement home

By Patricia Leigh Brown / The Bulletin
August 31, 2008

SNELLING, Calif. — Most days, the talk here among the farmers and almond growers along this stretch of two-lane blacktop 18 miles from the nearest onramp concerns heat units — as hot summer days are known — and the hull split that signals the approach of almond....

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