So Much Has been Going On

I fell in love about 8 weeks ago. Love makes you do silly things.  Sometimes things you might regret but you charge ahead regardless. I did that, and then I paused and waited patiently for a sign that this was the right thing to do. A week ago last Thursday, 11 days ago now, I got that sign, and thus began a mad and crazy rush of doing everything on a "must do" list, in order to procure the object of my attentions.

Hmmmm, I can hear you thinking.  What is she on about? 

Well, our little bit of heaven, in the boonies, has been shattered by the encroaching onslaught of 2 subdivisions close by making traffic horrible on our tiny winding road, and then the house being built right up near our back field fence, and rudely facing onto our property. I am no longer in my happy place here, so we have found us almost 9 acres out in Belton that is STILL in the boonies, to move to. It's even got a creek running along one side.

We exchanged contracts at the beginning of last week and are now waiting to close December 9th (possibly earlier if we get all our ducks in a row before then).

Yesterday, we were out there mowing so that we can have someone come out this week to do some testing and make sure that the septics are working as they should (so that we don't need to pay for a new one!) and that we can have a well dug. The current owners gave us permission to mow since the grass is 3-4 feet high and it was either, allow us on the property to do it, or they'd have to. 

My mate, Kwacha, came with us and my granddaughter, Nicolette, met us out there. While Mark mowed a little (the tractor mower deck started smoking so he had to stop. Found out, once we got home, some string or something had wrapped around it and the belt, so he got it sorted and we are going back over, this morning) us girls discussed my vision for this property. They both understood my peace there.

Mark wandered back over to the stream and took some more pictures for me, even as I planned the first project for once it's truly ours - the front fencing and electronic gate with gardenias and roses along the fenceline and then a row or 2 of trees for privacy. We are going to do an indent, so that the gate is not at the roadside but maybe 20 feet or so on the property, so that we can get off the road easily. 

From the beginning, I said that if this property was meant to be ours, it would happen. If it was meant to be it would be ... God has been really good to us and everything fell into place within a week, once we decided to go for it.

Itt's probably going to take us around a year or so to get it ready for us to start building, but come Spring we'll be planting bushes, fruit trees, veggies, loads (and I mean LOADS!) of gardenias and roses, and we'll have 3 bee hives up and going. We've also seen milkweed on the property, so are going to nurture that so as to, hopefully, help the Monarch butterfly population.