home ownership

we were supposed to close on the 1st of October.


I'm sad to say that the home owner ship has been put on hold. the seller didn't get some survey done. so no house yet. the bank is saying friday by the earliest. and maybe next friday.

so let me talk a bit about all the plans i have for the new house. and of course we have 1.5 acres out back. the property is shaped like a T.

some new problem is holding up the purchase. i'm starting to wonder if it will ever happen. when the seller put up the fence he had an agreement with the neighbor that they were going to purchase a small wedge shaped piece of land. but that deal fell though but now the neighbor is saying that the wedge was given to her by the seller. it's a whole big mess. and with all the drama i'm wondering if it isn't a mistake living next to these people.


i'm going to have raised planting beds, to eliminate the need for a tiller. i never liked those noisy things anyway. they took the peacefulness that i got from gardening and destroyed it. i never thought gasoline powered machines should be a part of the same project of a small family garden. it's just too much gas, too close to my food source.



to add to the scenery behind my little garden, there is a pasture of grass grazing cow. and maybe in my yard there will be free roaming chickens. this little fact is still up in the air.

October 28

we signed the papers and everything has been a big push to get moved in to the new house. we had the walls insulated, we ordered new windows, the old ones i think i can use to make a green house for my garden, we are having a garage built. and we still haven't fully moved in yet.

the husband is working 11 hour days and still driving an hour to and from work. and he is doing this 6 days a week. so very little is getting moved. thankfully we have all the time in the world to move out of the old apartment. well maybe not all the time in the world. but there isn't any pressure to be out.