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The Sweet Taste of Victory
I realized something this week. Over the months Jer and I began working on this dream of building a home debt free, my favorite memories...
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Jun 12, 20222 min read
ESTABLISHED 2022
We have a structure, people! Who cares if we really can’t live in it? It’s building, the first of several. Trail blazing through raw land...
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May 22, 20222 min read
Slacking or Not?
Two weekends of hard work have taken place since I last posted. First was our cement weekend. One hundred eighty-three 60lb bags of...
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May 17, 20222 min read
Pick Up Sticks and Surprizes
We had a surprise visitor on our property this last weekend. No, it wasn’t the deer that ramble past us or the lizard-like salamander I...
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Apr 24, 20222 min read
That Thing We are Doing- The Problem with Unknowns
It was time to get our new-to-us trailer set on the property. This would allow for more than just day trips. I may have failed to mention...
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Apr 17, 20222 min read
The PC Auger
I’m getting a little ahead of myself, but I can’t help it after this weekend. Our plan for our property is not only to build a home but...
stacey946
Apr 10, 20222 min read
That Thing We are Doing- Action
Jer and I had made multiple weekend trips to the property back-to-back. Fall had descended on us and we knew if we were going to take any...
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Apr 3, 20222 min read
That Thing We are Doing- Nature Calls
Our goal after finding our monuments (corners of our property) was to draw a string that nearly ran seven hundred feet from one end to...
stacey946
Mar 27, 20222 min read
That Thing We are Doing-Forests and Fires
I’m jumping a head a bit but it’s relevant as we have just come back from our forest land. Once we decide where we wanted to build a...
stacey946
Mar 20, 20222 min read
That Thing We are doing - Borders
Our neighbor from the deep south had suggested we put up a fence to help keep the wildlife out. Unfortunately, we weren’t exactly sure of...
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Mar 13, 20222 min read
That Thing We are Doing- Neighbors
Rural mountain areas are filled with all kinds of people. We had been told this was a good area but we still found some colorful folk...
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Mar 6, 20222 min read
That Thing We Are Doing- Beginnings
We were landowners! It took the rural county a couple weeks for us to get the title work done but it was official. We owned five acres of...
stacey946
Feb 27, 20222 min read
That Thing We Did-Now What?
The house had sold successfully, we settled into our little apartment, but were unsure of what we should do next. What property, if any,...
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Feb 20, 20222 min read
That Thing We Did - Renovations
The price was right. The view was beautiful. We made the leap… with a plan. We said, “Yes” to the apartment before our home had even...
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Feb 14, 20222 min read
The Thing We Did- The Apartment
When you get a cash offer on your home of thirty years, they buyers generally want to take possession fairly quickly. That was true for...
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Feb 6, 20222 min read
That Thing We Did
After camping on our neighbor’s property, we left feeling one hundred percent sure that this property was ours. Our faith was so strong...
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Jan 23, 20222 min read
So, We Did This Thing - part 8
Was there a place of land for us, we wondered? We really were at a loss as where to look next. A couple days later as Jer was cleaning up...
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Jan 16, 20222 min read
So We Did This Thing - part 7
The hunt continued and off we went into the wild blue yonder… or something like that. The part of the state we wanted is drier and...
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Jan 9, 20222 min read
So We Did This Thing -part 6
I know, I know… I really haven’t told you about the ‘thing we did’ but I’m getting there. After our disappointing first hunt for a lot,...
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Jan 2, 20222 min read
So We Did This Thing - part 5
Sometimes crazy gets crazier. After our very first lot hunting adventure. We went back to our trailer and debriefed. It was windy and...
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Dec 5, 20212 min read
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