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House Sitter Morgan Meadows
Location: Sebastopol, California |
Age: 64 |
Experience: 1 yr 9 mo |
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About Morgan Meadows: |
I enjoy helping others care for their gardens and pets and homes when they need to be away. I am pet free so I can be free to travel. The most common sentiment homeowners have expressed to me is, "I never worried about a thing because I knew you were there."
I follow a whole foods, plants-based lifestyle and am alcohol and drug free. My writing discipline keeps me focused and attentive to my community.
For every house sitting assignment, I create a memo of agreement or contract. I am happy to provide references, as needed.
Current Bio Capsule: I am a mature, educated, and artistic woman who loves gardens, solitude, and caring for them both. I am a car-free, physically fit bicyclist and maintain a current driver's license in the State of CA. After 15 years in the San Juan Islands of WA state, I relocated to Sonoma County (late in 2022) to pursue my certificate in reflexology, set up a practice, and eventually build a tiny home within a pocket village.
Range of Experience: I began house, garden, orchard, and pet sitting over 30 years ago. I accrued 5 years experience in permaculture/organic orchard care, when was I homeschooling my four children in San Luis Obispo County, CA --- in the late 1990's. We lived in yurts we built ourselves. We had goats, chickens, rescue dogs, and cats. We were rural enough to get visits from the occasional black bear, mountain lion and bobcat. I attended Cal-Poly extension courses to learn about orchard care and permaculture., in addition to personal study and application. By the time I became an empty-nester in 2015, my family had been living on Orcas island, in WA, for many years. My experiences with house, pet, and garden sitting grew. I began winding down a successful vacation home cleaning business, sold my community land trust home in 2017, and spent nearly 4 years in Wisconsin, educating communities about human trafficking and forced marriage, before returning to the PNW to recover from a near fatal car crash. I am fully healed now. Phew!
My grown children live in Seattle. No grandchildren as yet. I was a late-start parent but I'm not in a rush for my twenty-somethings to become parents in these challenging times.
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Kim Bryan |
Homeowner in Sedro-wooley, Washington |
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Cared for all garden areas, greenhouse, and container plantings (weeding/watering); picked and froze on-site fruit; cared for two dogs, including their fostered 6 mo. old Labra-doodle. Took care of their laying hens, collected eggs; collected mail; put out garbage for collection; communicated with other site caregivers (i.e. horse feeders, etc).
dates were June 2-June 9, followed by June 11-June 13th.
Kim and Don Bryan are long term friends; connected by mutual ministry and service to survivors of trauma.
Date of Service Jul 13, 2022
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Kim Bryan |
Homeowner in Sedro-wooley, Washington |
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From April 1-June 15, 2021, I remained as an on-site caretaker to beautify the wrap-around gardens and a greenhouse, at the Bryan's former home on San Juan Island (Roche Harbor). This was during its preparation for selling and until the home and land were securely transitioned to the new owner. The Bryan's aging pet lab, Lady Bug, their senior poodle ,Mandy, and their free-roaming cat, Buttercup, were included in my daily duties, depending on who was attending to the repairs, as well as showing the home to prospective buyers.
We met when she was the new director of the DV/SA agency in San Juan County, and was relatively new to the islands (2012), and I was the co-director of Leadership San Juan Islands, an educational program for community leadership. We have worked together professionally several times. I became a consultant in state accreditation for the agency she directed for 7 years, before she went on to build her dream non-profit in equestrian therapy.
Date of Service Jun 15, 2021
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Kim Bryan |
Homeowner in Sedro-wooley, Washington |
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From December 15, 2020 until March 30th, 2021, I resided in the Bryan's primary residence. During their day trips, weekend 's away, or when they took an extended leave to care for ill parents, I cared for their home, two senior dogs, a kitten, laying hens and eggs, a pellet stove (primary heat source), and assisted with meal preparations when they were home. I also assisted with horse care for two retired horses and one stallion, as part of supporting Kim's nonprofit youth ranch/equestrian therapy program. I collected their mail and packages.
Date of Service Mar 30, 2021
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Catiya Gainor |
Homeowner in Olga, Washington |
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This assignment was in 2007 on Orcas island. My children and I lived in an RV for the summer, while I secured work and established myself in a small business locally. I was responsible for pets, house/cabins and the entire 1/4 acre garden from June 2007 until October 1, 2007. I am still friends with this owner.
Date of Service Sep 30, 2018
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Sally Craig |
Homeowner in Atascadero, California |
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This was a 5 year assignment caring for a 70-fruit-tree 5-acre orchard in rural Atascadero, CA. The app here doesn't go back further than 2018, but I felt this long-term assignment was worth posting.
There were mostly apple varieties, as well as apricots, cherries, lemons, oranges, and pears. I lived in a yurt and worked on-site year-round, between September 1998 until September 2003, when my four children were still very young. We moved to WA state from there, to join a large homeschooling and gardening community on Orcas island.
My duties: I pruned all trees annually, mowed the grounds, and created raised beds for an expanding vegetable garden. I maintained two large strawberry patches, as well as large raspberry and blackberry producing sections. In addition to pruning, I put the immense harvest through processing: apple pies, applesauce, canning, and market ready fresh fruit; dehydration for apple rings, prunes, etc. When the owners were away several times a year, I cared for their milking goats (Nubians), a flock of laying hens, and a menagerie of dogs and cats. All the residences used wood stove heat, so firewood splitting and stacking were seasonal tasks.
I installed a primary walkway (4' x 55') to the modular home that was brought to the property (2002) as a final improvement before moving my family to the PNW in 2003.. The modest Orchard House became the new caretaker's residence.
Date of Service Jan 1, 2018
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