Do you believe in yourself? Do you give it your all. Is your confidence at the excellence level? I love doing what I do. I never give up! I am interested only in the proposition to excel beyond anything I can imagine. Sustainable business model, incredible customer service, technology solutions that are leading edge, networking with the best in the industry, learning each day new and better ways to service my consumer, playing it forward and taking it home!

There lies my inscription for my tombstone.....delivering the best at every present moment. Are you doing that? If not re-evaluate your business model and make it new and on a cosmic level! Think outside the box! It's a sign of the times. Video, HDR photopraphy, dedicated websites, blogging and SEO, community relationships and localism color.....drill down and delivery!

You gotta go with the GUSTO and deliver. We have exciting times ahead and I for one am on board and working hard to deliver. I'm having fun and looking for that GUSTO and the satisfaction of a job well done for my consumer. Market trends and keeping my consumer up to speed on the real estate industry....oh yeah! Providing that local color of my city and communities and the joy of living here in Shasta County....oh yeah.....we ARE FAMILY and how cool is that!

I am Jeanean Gendron, your Redding and Shasta County Specialist. Visit our website to learn more about Redding and Shasta County Real Estate.

I had a call this past week from a Well Farge Loan Officer regarding a past post I had written about short sales. He called on a reference about a company we had worked with and we had a good conversation about the mortgage industry, short sales and the process the banks go through in processing short sales.

We shared horror stories and I enjoyed the conversation and felt that it was beneficial in helping me see the world from the bank's perspective. He shared that when they first began a little over a year ago they were completely inundated with not enough personnel to handle the load. Since then they have staffed up. I forget the number he used but it was impressive. I don't want to mis-quote him and so we will use "impressive" to quantify the number. He also said they are working hard to help consumers and to approved short sales in a timely manner.

I've beeen wanting to write a post about Citi Mortgage. I believe that they may have gone through the same type of "gearing up" and are now cooperating and approving short sales. I am about to close a short sale with them and they were wonderful to work with and approved a 6% commission. I have written other posts about Citi Mortage and how hard and impossible they were to work with. It's important to keep the record going and to acknowledge the changes that are occuring.

I just got a short sale with Wells Fargo....strange how things evolve and I look forward to working with Citi Mortgage going forward. I have mentioned that it will be these banks that we as consumers choose to work with and do business in the future. It's helping the real estate industry recover and it makes sound business sense.

I am Jeanean Gendron and you can reach me at 530 276-7417. I answer my phone.

We hunger for beauty. We are artists and fly-fisher people. We enjoy the silence of nature and the connection that it brings.

We also like to eat at good restaurants and enjoy the performing arts and the artist community. We like the diversity of living in a city with a majestic and powerful river...the Sacramento River. This beautiful river community affords us the joy of picnicking and walking near the River. I love our walks down by the River.

I am out and about all the time doing real estate related things and how wonderful is that I am surrounded by beauty.

Three mountain ranges offer the city of Redding mountain views: the western mountain ranges that peer at the Trinity Alps, Mount Shasta, and the Lassen Mountain Range. Many parts of Redding are built on ridgetops of hills that offer spectacular views.

How fortunate am I to be out and about in all this beauty each and every day. For an artist....it makes life beautiful and rich. We love Redding and we feel that we have found our little bit of paradise. How good is it to help others in finding this beautiful country and the diversity of lifestyles that it offers.

I am Jeanean Gendron, your Redding and Shasta County Specialist. You can reach me at 530 276-7417. I answer my phone.

Visit our websites to learn more about Redding and Shasta County Real Estate.

Ridgewood Estates is a unqiue and upscale community. They are custom built homes on 1-3 acre parcels. The community is built at the base of a bluff next to the Churn Creek. As the terrain climbs your views get more majestic the higher you go. The Churn Creek is a wonderful natural habitat with migrating birds traveling through the Churn in Spring and Fall. All the homes on the West side back up to the Churn and enjoy living on a wildlife sanctuary.

Here is this majestic view of the Western Mountain Ranges. This community has the BEST VIEWS!

Look at those mountain peaking through!

Mountains again....they just sneak in there!

Just a pretty house here....but there is a view in the front and the back!

Mountains peaking through!

Lower elevation that backs to the Churn Creek!

Churn Creek....look rather dry this time of year. It's almost completely dry. It use to be a year round creek. Three years of drought.

I am Jeanean Gendron, your Redding and Shasta County Specialist. I can be reach at 530 276-7417. I anwser my phone. Visit my websites to learn more about Redding and Shasta County Real Estate.

This unique and beautiful home back up to the Churn Creek and offers many amenities. It is a split floor plan and provides unique and distinctive architectural design with arches and 10' ceilings.

The master suite offer a retreat with double-sided gas fireplace for the Master and the Master Bath. With soaking tub and spa, the wrap-around walk-in shower completes this luxury bath.

Enter into a hide-away room that offers you the option of office or exercise room. 4BD/2BA this 2000 sf home with 3 bay garage offers you the Shasta Lifestyle which is a lifestyle for everyone!

This unique home is located in the prestigious community of Ridgewood Estates. It is 1.9 acres that cross the Churn Creek. The home backs to the nature that evolves around the Churn Creek. Migrating birds travel through this creek on their way North and South in their migration routes. Great Blue Heron, Snowy Egret, Green Back Heron, Golden Eagle and Bald eagle are among the big birds. Western Blue Bird and Western Tanager are among the smaller birds. It is a Nature Preserve and it's right at your back door. The home is 2000 square feet of unique and distinctive design. Unique and beautiful architectural design set the tone for arched entry ways and softness of design. A split floor plan allows for that lifestyle that is diverse and flexible for all. 4BD/2BA with the Master suite providing a two-way gas fire-place and soaking spa tub, wrap around shower and large closet leading to a separate office or exercise room. This home is unique in all ways. It is a short sale. Call for details.

Coldwell Park snuggles up agains the Sacramento River, affording the opportunity to enjoy this beautiful and powerful river. Located off Market street and just below the train tracks that bridge the River, this park is gorgeous with with a wide variety of Oaks and the California Sycamore. Enjoy the River or the Swimming Pool Facilities of this park. Waling trails through the park allow you to pick your preference and where you will enjoy the day.

Caldwell Park Sign and Community. Enter into this beautiful park and enjoy!

Gorgeous green with beautiful trees and a slight view of the River.

Does it get any better than this. The Sacramento River is so beautiful and as a River Community Redding and Shasta County have so much to offer. I don't know about you, but I have to have beautiful places to go and be with the beauty of nature.

This is the fish ladder to help Salmon travel back to their breeding grounds.

I love the train trestle tracks and they make for beautiful photo ops. You just have it all here in Redding and Shasta County. Come for a visit and we'll show you around.

I am Jeanean Gendron, your Redding and Shasta County Specialist. You can reach me at 530 276-7417. I answer my phone. Visit our website to learn more abour Redding and Shasta County real estate.

River Ridge Park sets above Redding to the Northeast and has views of three mountain ranges. The homes in this community are previledged to have these views and the surrounding undeveloped area. Backing to canyons and city views this community enjoys the sound of the trains in the distance and the sunsets that you come home to watch. Taking a walk in this community is a treat for the eyes. River Ridge Park is one of Redding's most prestigious communities.

From every angle the mountains embrace this lovely community.

Surround and carressed by Mountains.

Loved the "Day Lilies" and the beautiful Oak tree. This tree has been trimmed properly.

Vista City with no pity....that's for sure!

View of the moutnains to the North.

View of the Lassen Mountain Range.

If you would like to know more about River Ridge Park, I would be pleased to help you. It is a wonderful place to live and offers all the amenities and luxuries of living the Shasta Lifestyle.

I am Jeanean Gendron, your Redding and Shasta County Specialist. I can be reached at 530 276-7417. I answer my phone. Visit our websites to learn more about Redding and Shasta County Real Estate.

Lassen Peaks' May 1914 eruption launched three years of sporadic volcanic outburst. In the largest eruption on May 22, 1915, the peak blew a huge, mushroom-shaped clous of ask over 30,000 feet into the air. The eruption changed the landscape of the surrounding area. The Park was made a National Park in 1916 because of the eruption and the active volcanic landscape. The park is a valuable and natural hydrothermal study of the earth's volcanic landscapes.

Lassen hydrothermal areas--Sulphur Works, Bumpass Hell, Little Hot Springs Valley, Boiling Springs Lake, Devils Kitchen and Therminal Geyser offer bubbling mud pots, steaming fumaroles and boiling water. There is constant change within the landscape with some getting hotter and more acidicand others less so.

Lassen Peak is one of many active, dormant, or extinct volcanoes found around the Pacific Ocean in a Ring of Fire. On this seismic zone, edges of plates that form Earth's crust grind against each other and one plate subducts or sinks down. Subduction creates molten rock--magma--at the plate margins. As the magma rises into the continental crust, it becomes the feeding chamber of volcanoes.

On the morning of June 14: 1914, B.F. Loomis aimd his camera at Lassen Peak and exposed a series of glass plate negatives that captured an eruption as it unfolded. The eruption occurred at 9:43 a.m. ad was the most powerful event to that dat.

The photographis are blown up to large scale and on display at the Loomis Museum. These are digital photos of the displays.

I am Jeanean Gendron and I am your Redding and Shasta County Specialist. You can reach me at 530 276-7417. I answer my phone. You can visit our websites to learn more about Redding and Shasta County Real Estate.

The Lassen Loomis Museum Association is a non-profit, cooperating association with Lassen Volcanic National Park. The association is dedicated to enhancing the Park's visitor's experience by providing reference and informational history books of the Park.

The Museum also provides displays of photography and topopgraphy of the park's interior. The exhibits display cutural and the physical dynamics of the parks many attributes and physical layouts.

The museum is a must see and a great place to look for books on the history and the dynamic and living nature of the Park. 

It also supports the Park and their goals. Donations are welcome. Contact the Museum at Lassen Loomis Museum Association, PO Box 220, Mineral, CA 96003. 530 505-3399. email llma@citlink.net.

Welcome to the Loomis Museum and Bookstore.

This is the Seismograph that measure movement in the area.

Photo of the Museum. It really cute and quaint.

The book, knowledge and information section. I was able to get a free print out of the tree species in the area.

Geological Display of the area.

Thermal display of the area.

Topography display of the area.

We throroughly enjoy our day trip to Lassen Volcanic National Forest. We'll be heading back soon to Manzanita Lake for some flyfishing. It is very beautiful and at the entrance. It should be accessible most of the year.

Visit our area soon and be sure to take that day trip to Lassen and the diversity of the wildlands in our area.

I am Jeanean Gendron, your Redding and Shasta County Specialist. You can reac me at 530 276-7417. I answer my phone. Visit our website to learn more about Redding and Shasta County Real Estate.

My daughter was born two weeks late and I was frantic with anticipation. I wanted that baby to come. She came when she was ready, however and she's been in control ever since. When they handed her to me she had very alert eyes and she seemed to be looking all around the room . She seemed to be of a knowing nature. They say babies can't see well when they are born. She never cried. She was peaceful and quiet. She was the perfectly formed little baby all pink and cute. No screaming and no crying....just perfect silence and wide-eyed interest.

How would one know that in that moment we would set a bond that would hold throughout our lives and relationship. Things have pretty much stayed the same with my daughter. She's always the one in control and she never cries. She is very strong.

I've lost my daughter to those things in life that just happen from that first moment of life together. She was lost to me when she was born and she remains lost to me. Karmic bonds that long ago set things in motion for this life move silently through to final result.

She never wanted to be at home. I became a single mom when she was 10. She assumed responsibility for her brother, who was 7. I was so relieved to be out from under the rock of my marriage that even though it was harder, I celebrated my independence. I become a "Super Mom". Career and being a MOM was all there was for me.

We were all casualties to a dysfunctional lifestyle and the damage of a broken home. Somehow I made the mortgage payment and bought the school clothes....when she graduated, we did not have the money for her graduation ring. There were many things like that. She never thought she would attend college.

Seven years later, I met someone and married him. We managed to put her through her first year at Cal Poly and pay off her car. She finished on grants and loans. She is a successful professional in her field, is married and has two beautiful boys.

I felt somewhat relieved that she seemed to be the one that made it through it all and I rejoiced that I had a child that was complete and full of life. Her brother was diagnosed while she was in college with Bi-Polar Disorder and Severe Depression. She was so self-sufficient and accomplished. I leaned on her for support.

We moved through our lives....we moved to Salinas and bought a house big enough to hold a two generation family. Our son needed to live with us. My daughter maintained a closed relationship with us.

She came to me one day and told me that she was in crisis and that she had been in counseling for help. After several years, she had finally recalled that her father had sexually molested her and that her inability to connect or to trust was a direct result from this abuse.

It turned my world upside down. Let it suffice to say that it rocked my very self. The one thing in life that was at the core of who I was as a person was that of being a "good MOM". It would take me long months to come to terms with the truth of that day. My daughter shared with me that she could not remember her childhood and that she felt robbed of the love she was sure I had showered on her. Locked in her world of torment and torture she could not allow that love in or even recognize it. I felt it. I knew it on some level but not on the cognitive level. I just thought my daughter to be a self-reliant person and I gave her the permission to be who she was.

How could I have been so wrong. My son's condition worsened over the next several years and my daughter finally did not want to see him or have him near her children. It broke his heart and mine. I needed her and she needed me. We were separated by these unfathomable things that keeps us apart. I didn't know how to help her and I wanted to deny it all. I had my hands full with a child trying to commit suicide every other month and getting mentally unstable.

I've lost my daughter on so many levels and yet I really never had my daughter. She has been lost to me from that time of her birth. She knows not of all the kisses and hugs she got. She knows not of the swimming lessons, or the bows that were glued on her head because she had no hair. She knows not of my tears when she went away to kindergarden. She knows not of how proud of her I have always been and how much I have always needed her. She is so strong and she has withstood this all alone. Alone is the only safe place she has. She has conquered so much and she has done it in the state of alone. I have waves of love for my daughter and I miss her so. I pray that some day we can be together and know each other in love and friendship. I would really like to know her and I would wish that she not be alone.

Abuse is a terrible thing. If you know someone who has suffered abuse. Learn everything you can about recovery and be there for them. She's aready made a lifetime of recovery and progress. God bless and keep her and all those who are abused.