Our farm…maybe

Mama and I got to ride a four wheeler yesterday while we were looking at a property about twenty minutes out of Decatur. It is thirty seven acres of beautiful meadows split north and south by a creek that was mostly dry. The rock formations of the creek reminded me of Dinosaur Valley State Park here in Texas. When we visited the park about eight years ago, the state of Texas was in a severe drought and the river that usually flows through the park was nearly dry. The low water levels exposed places in the limestone riverbed that are not normally accessible.

We walked in places that had prints of dinosaurs embedded into the rock of the riverbed. There are thousands of remarkable prints throughout the park, but those in the bed of the river were more clear since they had seen less weather wear and less human interaction. It was a fun time to remember.

The rock creek on the property we looked at is fed by springs in at least a dozen places, so it was not completely dry; being drier than normal exposed some of the creek bed that we would not have seen at another time. Our immediate impression was to buy that piece of property. With that in mind Mama went to a local bank this morning to see what immediate obstacles we would face – money wise. It was not as bad as I had thought. We will have to crunch some numbers and try to be as honest as possible with the exercise to see if we are really able to do this, but the prospect is exciting. We are off to look at a property to the north of Decatur this evening, but it will have to be extremely exceptional to compare to what I saw yesterday.

Of course we have to go to Kroger’s and a couple other stores in the area when we are in Denton. It has become a “must do” whenever we are in the area and since we have Grandma and Grandpa with us it really is something we had to plan to do. One more night in a motel and we will head for home. It is still a little strange for home to be in Amarillo, but that is where our things are, so I suppose that makes it home for now.

One of the things that will compound our search will be making sure we are in a good church wherever we buy and choose to live. It could be problematic in the Decatur area. Looking for such a church is one thing Mama and I have been putting off partly due to the lack of direction from my employer. It is not an immediate necessity and we do not want to get any pastor’s hopes up before we know something more specific.

There is time to get all the challenges worked out – any hurry we may feel is totally on our part, not on God’s.