Short version: On Monday morning, we closed on our property! Give us a few months to settle in and build some things out, then we’re open for visitors 😉 Long version: Last week, AC drove back to Louisiana for her nephew’s 8th grade graduation. I opted to sit that one out because we’d already made that drive twice in the last 4 months so I was tapped out. Not only did AC get some good…
We’ve been building up to this moment for over a year and it’s finally here! Buckle up, y’all–we’re under contract on our homestead property and it’s gonna be a fun ride! Our new home is in the tiny little town of Marble, NC, in between Murphy and Andrews, and about 2 hours from Chattanooga (we’re the yellow star in the map below). We’ll be about equidistant from my sister’s family, and my parents, brother and…
Y’all, its been a while since I shared an update–my apologies! Now I understand how some folks make a blogging their full-time job. Anywho, here we go… Saturday afternoon we headed into Phoenix as our last stop before heading to our next farm stay. I found this bar/restaurant that focused solely on mead, and since AC has talked about possibly making mead on our farm one day, I decided we needed to do a little…
This morning we left our 3rd farm stay in central California and started the trek to our final farm stop in Arizona. We’ll take a week to get there and explore a good bit of southern CA along the way. If you’ve been following along, you know that the main focus of this past farm was goats. We both learned how to milk goats by hand and AC learned how to trim hooves. And, on…
We’ve been at Paradise Valley Ranch for a full week now and we’ve already learned so much! Here are a few experiences to highlight: Due to my work schedule, unfortunately, my daytime participation on the farm has been limited (and the FOMO is killing me). I assist with morning chores and have volunteered to take on evening chores alone most nights. On the other hand, AC has been working 8+ hour days. This week AC…
AC has finished the itinerary for our road trip from the east coast of the USA to the west coast of Canada and we leave in 3 days! I’m sure you all are dying to know more about our route (or at least my mom is). Here you go! I’m not going to share full details now for safety purposes. But I will post an update on each stop–including where we were and what we…
We are now homeless on purpose! We sold our house as part of our grand plan, but we still need some place to live on our cross-country trek and in between farm stays. Rather than spend oodles of money on various hotel rooms, we decided we’ll be campers! We’ll camp out of a tent and out of our truck, depending on our moods and the weather. But before we could camp out of our truck,…
…But our house sold that fast! You read that right, we sold our house in one day! Here’s how it went down: Offers We had multiple offers so we could have set a “submit your best offer by” date, but this offer was so strong (and the others were not) that we decided we didn’t want to risk scaring this buyer off. Tuesday morning we finished signing the papers and were officially under contract! Now…
It takes a lot of work to prepare and facilitate your own estate sale–way more than I anticipated! Now that it’s over, I’m writing this post from Mr. Snuggles, AC’s prized oversized recliner, because he is one of the few remaining pieces of furniture in our house. Pre-sale Chaos That’s right, the “estate” sale is over, and it was a smashing success! I wish I had done a better job of taking pictures and documenting…
It’s Thursday and this week has already been a full one. It started with a pre-inspection for our own sanity– I didn’t want any big surprises that could keep our house from selling–and it went pretty well! No surprises, only small things that we already knew about or are easily fixable…except for one. We have a bat in the attic. The inspector wasn’t sure if it was a bat or a leaf, but AC bravely…