Bittersweet

So for the last, I don’t know 8 months we’ve been searching for land.  God finally answered our prayers and sent us to 17.5 acres of rolling fields PERFECT for what we want our life to be as a family.

Yesterday, we went to visit friends of ours who live in a log cabin.  We asked them how they liked it, what they would have changed yadda yadda yadda.  On our way home, BOTH girls fell asleep in the car so we decided to drive by the property on our way home.

A little back story on the family we bought it from.

We don’t know much about them, but we do know they are divorced.  One or both MAY be remarried and they have a couple kids together.  They owned quite  bit of land and decided to sub-divide and sell all assets that they owned together.  Likely, a tough decision.

When we passed the land to stop in at the neighbor’s and introduce ourselves, we noticed a tent set up right on the ridge looking west.  After talking to the neighbor for a few minutes, she told us “he was up there camping one last time with his kids”.  Ahhh  I wanted to cry.  To take your kids up there for the weekend and camp out(especially in the rain overnight Friday) truly meant he loved the land and perhaps even had plans for the land.  How awesome was this dad to take his kids up there for one last hoorah!

He doesn’t know much about us, but we intend to make some pretty awesome memories there with our family as I am sure he did too.   It was truly nice to see someone partaking in the small things in life that bring true happiness.

 

“One touch of nature, makes the whole world kin”-William Shakespeare

This’ll do…….

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I’m new to this whole blogging thing-so bear with me while I work out the kinks!

Wow!  It’s been a long journey in trying to find a piece of land to put our funny farm on!  I thought we had found our forever home…UNTIL we got chickens.  Chickens are the gateway drug.  Don’t EVER let anyone tell you otherwise.  7 chickens turned into 10, which then turned into 17 and 2 peacocks!  If I let my husband have his way, we’d probably have goats as well.  Either way, we’ll more than likely have WAY more than just chickens, peacocks, and goats.

 

Today, we received the contract for our 17.5 acres.  As soon as we close, we’re hoping to break ground on our new baby.  This blog will be used to document this crazy journey we are now embarking on.  Neither Matt nor I have any idea on what to expect along the way.

 

We used to only ever want to live in old homes.  Our first home together was built in 1820.  Our second home was built in 1916….both fixer uppers with lathe and plaster walls.  If you don’t know anything about lathe and plaster walls, consider yourself blessed!  With old homes, comes old home problems.  Over the years, we’ve spent more time doing projects on our houses, rather than spending the time outside.  Once we moved to Valley Pike, had some land and some animals, we knew what we wanted.  A little farm where we could grow our own food, become just a bit more self sustaining than we are, but also enjoy the tranquility that comes with living in the quiet country.

Thistle Dew Farm will hopefully be our forever home where our kids can grow up and one day bring their kids back to visit.  Feel free to follow us on this crazy journey God has blessed us with.

 

This’ll do……