cha cha cha changes!

Bob and I have decided that it is time to make the leap and find either the perfect house with a few acres in the country or find the perfect land and either build or have a modular house ordered and placed on that land. Its a daunting task. We have such very special needs for a house that we have not had the luxury to have fulfilled up to this point. Nickie's very special needs being in a wheelchair makes buying an existing house very difficult. Very few of them already have accessibility issues taken into consideration and I'm looking to make this our last move, we hope anyway, to be one that requires lots of work to make it suitable. We know that a ranch style house is the most logical choice but we aren't limiting our search. I'm worried about this task. There are so many things to consider and I don't want to make the wrong choice.

It seems that the counties that have land that is well not affordable but say more affordable than others most likely have the crummy school districts. The ones with the good school districts have land that is untouchable by the average person. We have decided we no longer want to live in a subdivision. There are pros and cons to both the neighborhoods and the country. I long to have some distance between me and my next door neighbor. I don't want to be bound by codes that say what I can do with my own house and yard and yet I can see why those codes are often necessary. Bob has been toying with the idea of having some chickens maybe some goats, just a few mind you. He was thinking about a pig or two that is till we saw a program on TV last night called something like, The dirtiest jobs. The guy had to spend a day on a pig farm. Now that is one dirty job. I even had second thoughts about never eating one again. Though I'm sure I will get over that eventually.


Today we took a long drive to view some of the properties that our agent sent us. The house above, circa 1900, is on 7 acres on a quiet country corner. I'm not sure yet what I think other than it is interesting. I'm not sure it would suit our needs but....


right down the road I saw these great old buildings....


















The brick building was once a post office and right in the mud just a couple steps from where I stood taking the picture of the post office were some butterflies basking in the mud. Now just how much beauty can one take?