I hope you love your new home environment Lisa! Sounds like a good move to me. Personally I like the rural country areas much better. So far there's usually less congestion and chaos to deal with as long as the city vampires stay away.
Yes, we tried to recreate the country in the middle of the city, with apartments looking down on us from either side and constantly being outvoted in every election.
I'm hoping that a new home development (mobile homes, houses, townhouses, condos, etc) will not be built almost in my backyard. A business bringing additional traffic could cause more congestion without more people living on the property. I'm not anti-development. I just prefer living in sparsely populated areas. Like a little house on the praire setting. I've gotta get me some non-wifi security cameras and a home alarm system for sure now. Some people take advantage of secluded or simi-secluded properties. If I had had the funding. I would have purchased a home I saw selling for 895K, sitting on 60
acres of land. That's how much had I value my space and privacy
Mary, I'm so with you on this. Anthony and I compromised on a property in town, which makes most sense given we're in our 50s and 60s, though I often wish we were younger and going for the full homestead. I get my farm fix with (thankfully short) trips out to local ones to purchase meat, eggs, milk, and fresh veg. I hope you get to retain your buffer zone and don't suffer too much encroachment!
I've been a rural gal my whole life. I would occasionally spend a night at my grandparents house in town (population approximately 4,000) and couldn't sleep for the sound of the freight trains and sirens. Give me coyote howls and spring peepers any day.
So glad you found Anthony and Zander. I was widowed at 27, remarried at 31 and had our daughter at 42. In my early twenties I was told I would never have children, so it was indeed a surprise pregnancy and our daughter does have down syndrome. She's been the highlight of our lives as we look at the world in a whole new perspective. She's an independent child and has a deep interest in science and growing things.
Joy, thank you for sharing your own story here, especially the blessing of your daughter, an example that brings tears to my eyes. My sister had her girls late in life, and one is special needs. We feel the same about her. 🙏❤️🩹🙏❤️
Yes, it seems to foreground it instead, don’t you think? 🤔
We can be stubbornly attached to our youthful perceptions
Sadly in my case it ceased to be "youthful" about 20 years before I finally disabused myself of the notion!
You tell your story so wonderfully. I'm glad you managed to make a happy life.
Georgia, thank you so much for the compliment and happy expression. 🙏☺️
Happy country living!
I hope that spring peepers are audible around your new domicile. Or maybe you'll have some other, cool harbinger of Spring.
(The frogs are due here at weedom in 3 weeks, though we have lots of snow cover still.)
I would love to put in a pond to encourage more of that. I heard tree frogs at night late last summer, and great horned owls at Halloween 🎃.
Cooooool.
Even a tiny pond works for lots of frogs, but our spring peepers use a small marsh that has some partial tree cover and cattails.
We sometimes hear owls, but rarely see them. Sneaky guys.
Hearing that signature hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo at 3 am is the silver lining one might find with insomnia.
Very brave and well written. Puts things into perspective.
Thank you, Kathryn. 🙏❤️🩹🙏
I hope you love your new home environment Lisa! Sounds like a good move to me. Personally I like the rural country areas much better. So far there's usually less congestion and chaos to deal with as long as the city vampires stay away.
Thanks, Mary! I think I know what you mean about city vampires 🧛🏾♂️
Lisa, I think you showed us your former house before you sold it. That house looked liked it belonged in the country.
Yes, we tried to recreate the country in the middle of the city, with apartments looking down on us from either side and constantly being outvoted in every election.
I'm hoping that a new home development (mobile homes, houses, townhouses, condos, etc) will not be built almost in my backyard. A business bringing additional traffic could cause more congestion without more people living on the property. I'm not anti-development. I just prefer living in sparsely populated areas. Like a little house on the praire setting. I've gotta get me some non-wifi security cameras and a home alarm system for sure now. Some people take advantage of secluded or simi-secluded properties. If I had had the funding. I would have purchased a home I saw selling for 895K, sitting on 60
acres of land. That's how much had I value my space and privacy
Mary, I'm so with you on this. Anthony and I compromised on a property in town, which makes most sense given we're in our 50s and 60s, though I often wish we were younger and going for the full homestead. I get my farm fix with (thankfully short) trips out to local ones to purchase meat, eggs, milk, and fresh veg. I hope you get to retain your buffer zone and don't suffer too much encroachment!
I've been a rural gal my whole life. I would occasionally spend a night at my grandparents house in town (population approximately 4,000) and couldn't sleep for the sound of the freight trains and sirens. Give me coyote howls and spring peepers any day.
So glad you found Anthony and Zander. I was widowed at 27, remarried at 31 and had our daughter at 42. In my early twenties I was told I would never have children, so it was indeed a surprise pregnancy and our daughter does have down syndrome. She's been the highlight of our lives as we look at the world in a whole new perspective. She's an independent child and has a deep interest in science and growing things.
Joy, thank you for sharing your own story here, especially the blessing of your daughter, an example that brings tears to my eyes. My sister had her girls late in life, and one is special needs. We feel the same about her. 🙏❤️🩹🙏❤️