Still looking

Last night Mama and I picked up Victoria at Walmart so we could all ride together to see a little house the two of them had shown me on Sunday evening. It is a foreclosure property. It is a small house sitting on one acre of land. The back of the property is marked by a creek which flows about thirty feet below the ground level of the back yard.

It reminded me of our home in New Jersey. It too was backed by a creek which ran through a gully about thirty feet lower that the ground in our back yard. This creek bed, though, is not nearly as accessible as the one we had on the 6 Gifford property. There is a steep drop off covered by dense vegetation. I would consider it impassible – a natural safe guard to the property. But then, I am too old to see it as a challenge to get to the creek.

Anyway, the house might not be for sale any longer. The HUD website listing the house showed it to be under contract as of last night. Our realtor will check this morning to confirm. Mama and Victoria were terribly disappointed but I get the impression that God is not through with us yet as concerns getting closer to church.

We also looked at a 15.8 acre property a little outside of town that we immediately fell in love with. We are making an offer on it today. The drawback is that it is vacant land. Mama and I will have to build a shop-home on the property. It is something we have always talked about doing and if this is where the Lord is leading us we will finally get to do just that.

Our rough plan is to live in the small house while we build the “barndominium” and once it is complete we will leave the house to Victoria. Since life is what happens while you are making plans, we will see how all that works out. With a couple weekends of work we should be ready to move the horses and our lone heifer to the new property. That is something we really needed.

As we walked on the property and talked with our realtor Mama was looking for ways to include just a little more property than the fences outlined but I asked her to allow the fence line to stand in order to keep me from having to completely redo that length of fence. As it is right now we will have to repair the fence running along the west side of the property – about 1500 feet in length. That will cost enough in time and materials. And what is being offered is more than enough.

We should know today if the offer we made is accepted. It is then only a matter of getting the paperwork signed and the money moved.

Then my work begins.