So, bear with me for these first few posts please...I had contemplated the idea of recording my experiences here on the farm prior to even moving here and yet I didn't start right from the beginning. There are already three weeks of tales to tell, so these initial posts may ramble. I promise that I will get better once I am caught up and telling just one story at a time.
How did we end up on a 5 acre farmette? That may be the place to start. Dan, my husband, was raised in the small town outside of which we now live. When we were first married we considered moving out here, but decided instead to "keep up with the Joneses" and buy a bigger house in a nicer neighborhood than we could really afford. We made a go of living there happily ever after, but we just weren't cut out for the classy area we had moved to.
Our claustrophobia in suburbia was compounded by the down turn in the US economy which resulted in Dan losing his job. That, coupled with rezoning which DOUBLED our property taxes, meant that we could no longer afford the home we had purchased. Now upside down in our mortgage we made the choice to downsize and move elsewhere.
It took months of prayer and negotiation, but a farmette we had looked at hoping to buy came available for rent and became ours. Thanksgiving weekend 2010 we moved into our little farmhouse. And so the fun began...
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