Just when I thought my great adventures were over--well regular adventures, we do have a one-week trip planned for Bermuda in April--a new one has appeared. After looking at several houses in Winterhaven, we have decided to build a house on an empty lot in the community. A big undertaking! While we have bought (and sold) many houses in our 20-year marriage, we have never actually custom built a house from the ground up. We have owned land a couple of times, once in Klamath Falls and once in Sechelt, British Columbia, but each time circumstances changed and we sold the land without building. This time, though, it looks very much like we will actually build. The houses we saw in Winterhaven needed a lot of remodeling. They were built between 1994 and 2004 and, apart from granite countertops here and there, have mainly remained untouched since then. And it is a seller's market here in Winterhaven right now so house prices are high. We figured that, for the price of buying an old ho