The past few months we have been going back and forth trying to figure out where our new lot lines start and end on a property we purchased to build our small retirement home on. It has always been our dream to buy more land to hunt, build, and play on. We both love the outdoors and that is why we ended up here in the first place. It had land and was on a quiet dirt road, at least for the first year when stuff started changing and the road was paved. There went our dream of quiet and nature right out the window. It was to late to move once again and we had just finished building and working our butts off building our house to sell and move again. We did put it up for sale once many years back only to chicken out. We wanted to move closer to the kids schools when they were involved in more stuff and I was driving back and forth sometimes four times a day. It may not seem like much but we were fifteen minutes away from the school and we thought it would be better for the kids to be closer to their friends. The more we thought about it and tried to find a house the more frustrated we became so we decided to stay here. Our new dream became, "when the kids leave," well they are all gone now for about four years and Rich finally decided he was ready. I was ready way before that but he is so attached to the land aspect of our current home. Being able to walk outside your back door and feel like you are in the middle of a little piece of heaven made it hard on him. He has known we needed to move for a long time because of me as we live in the house of stairs on a hill and it is just getting to be too much for me. I hate to write that and I hate to have to believe it really is true but it is. Plus the yard is huge and a lot of work for a man who works sixty to seventy hours a week. It's time!
A few months back the seriousness hit us that we need to get out of here. We decided that if we could find some land, a larger chunk, we would do it. We had been looking for at least six months or so when Rich called one of the realtors he dealt with at work and she said I know of twenty acres that is available but not on the market yet. She gave us the crossroads to the property and I'm not going to lie, the first time we saw it both of our hearts started pumping fast with excitement. We would look at each other and with that look in our eyes like, this is too good to be true. Perfect to say the least twenty acres on a corner lot what more could we ask for? We went back many times and walked and figured out where we could put a house. our hunting blinds, and where we could take the kids back there to play. Our excitement built even more. We finally decided to make an offer and after little negotiations they accepted and we signed on the land of our new home and our long awaited dream. Our home is for sale now and we wait, wait for the right buyer. It is really hard waiting now because we now have even more plans in place for our dream but like I told Rich there is a reason we haven't sold yet. It's all in the plan. God knows when the right time will be, his time and not ours.
Yesterday we went back out to the land for the inth time. Our goal was to meet the neighbors to let them know why we were always poking around out there. We had two specific neighbors on opposite ends of the land to meet. Yes, we have two neighbors and they are at a long distance, just the way we wanted it. We met the first neighbors and they were very nice and happy that there was a house going on the property and not a farmer with cropsor such. They were just like us. I told her we are not here to bother our neighbors but if you ever have an emergency come over, she was happy and agreed. The guys told Rich some of his grass was on our property and Rich told him we don't care we just wanted to meet them.
We moved onto the other side of the property and that is when it struck me/us we are in the right spot. The man was working but his wife was home. Rich talked to her and I met her after a few minutes. She was talking about the surrounding area and other neighbors down the road but told us they were loaners and rednecks. My Aunt lives out back in a trailer doesn't that show you we are rednecks? We all laughed. I told her the same thing I told the other neighbor we are loaners but if you have an emergency we are right here, she said same here. Then she said she thought their driveway was on our land and we told her so what we don't care we just wanted to meet you. I asked her about her pond and how they kept it looking so clean. She said they used the huge loader that was sitting out back, over there, to keep the cattails out of it, then her next breath was amazing. "When you start building and need to knock some trees down you can use the loader just come over and get it." Wow! That is how you know you are in the country, people offer you to use their equipment that is worth thousands of dollars without a blink of an eye. My kind of people. Reminds me of our neighbor who we live across the street from now who helped us so much over the years.
When we left we knew this was the right place. It fell into place so perfectly and now we met our neighbors that has made it even all the better.
Now we wait. Wait for the house to sell. While we wait we are using the time to get some house plans together. Possibly put a driveway in so when we go out there we have a place to park instead of parking on the road. We are ready to sell but we are also enjoying the ride. A ride that will have many twists and turns I am sure of it but a good ride none the less. I always laugh when people say you are going to kill one another building a house, nah, we did it before and hardly argued about anything, really. As long as Rich lets me do what I want it will all work out. Hahaha! Just kidding. I think we are so excited there would be no way we could get mad at one another. We have waited for this dream for years and now it is here. We will make the best of it. Like they say, "Never stop dreaming!"
God Bless!
Dianne
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