(future firewood)Today was a little busy...was up early and heading into S.A. to meet with the lawyer regarding my dad's estate stuff. Signed some papers, and brought some with me for my siblings to sign, mailed off the one to my grandmother by overnight mail.
Afterwards, the girls and I had lunch, then headed home to pick up the digital camera and rushed off to the land to take pictures, which I posted in another post below.
I washed more clothes, as well as, folded them, still need to be put away.
Tonight Rodney hogged the laptop to look at tractors (guess I shouldn't complain, he hardly ever uses the computer - I wonder what we will do for Internet access when we move to Big Foot???)
I spent the evening reading my Backwoods Home mags again, looking through homesteading books, and making plans and lists.
I feel a little bad about spending all this money on buying the land, when I know so many people who need food and other necessities. The fact of the matter is that I spent a large portion of my inheritance on other people recently, and while I am glad to help, and want to do more, I also want some land for myself. I will continue to do what I can, but the fact of the matter is that I will soon be funneling every spare penny into my house fund. I need about $15K to build the house. I have about $3K at the moment, after paying the down payment on the land.
DH wants a tractor ( I think every homesteader wants one). Yes, we do need it. It will come in handy shredding the brush, keeping the firebreak cut, drilling post holes, and plowing for my garden, and hopefully future pumpkin patch business. They are just so expensive. There are several on craigslist that are reasonable priced, but he has this thing about only buying a new tractor. I tried to tell him that tractors last a long time, and if you get one that is older, it is easier to fix than the newer ones. I refuse to pay $14K for a tractor, that is just crazy. A used one will work just as well, be cheaper, and allow us to have no payments. I am not getting sucked into the payment thing again, after getting out. We will have land payments, but I consider that an investment, and plan to pay it off when we sell the house in a year of so.
We did head out to the land earlier this afternoon/evening around 5 pm. We took sandwiches and ate on the tailgate of the car, then walked the property again, checking things closer, talking about plans and thoughts, and closely inspected the hog tracks on one end of the pond. Followed their trail a little way, until DH noticed that they had recently wallowed in the mud, and he didn't want to meet an angry feral hog without a gun. So, next time we go out, we will take the 9mm, and the 30-30, just in case.
It was nice eating out there...Lauren commented on how quiet it was. You could hear the wind and the birds..beautiful. She wants to have a bon fire on the property like my sister Ann normally has on Christmas and New Year's Eves at her land. I think I will buy a fire pit though, the grass and brush look way to dry for a ground fire.
Need to remember to take the port a potty with us next time too, would have come in handy for Hannah, she is a small town girl, and a little countrified, but still too citified to use the bushes. She looked so shocked when I told her she could potty if it was an emergency. She said she'd wait. She also doesn't like the long grass, which I LOVE! It blows and waves in the wind, and makes me thing of Little House on the Prairie, and of "amber waves of grain". LOL!
On the agenda for tomorrow is:
wash clothes
clean
make grocery list
make cookies
bake gingerbread
Well, off to bed...good night all!
Afterwards, the girls and I had lunch, then headed home to pick up the digital camera and rushed off to the land to take pictures, which I posted in another post below.
I washed more clothes, as well as, folded them, still need to be put away.
Tonight Rodney hogged the laptop to look at tractors (guess I shouldn't complain, he hardly ever uses the computer - I wonder what we will do for Internet access when we move to Big Foot???)
I spent the evening reading my Backwoods Home mags again, looking through homesteading books, and making plans and lists.
I feel a little bad about spending all this money on buying the land, when I know so many people who need food and other necessities. The fact of the matter is that I spent a large portion of my inheritance on other people recently, and while I am glad to help, and want to do more, I also want some land for myself. I will continue to do what I can, but the fact of the matter is that I will soon be funneling every spare penny into my house fund. I need about $15K to build the house. I have about $3K at the moment, after paying the down payment on the land.
DH wants a tractor ( I think every homesteader wants one). Yes, we do need it. It will come in handy shredding the brush, keeping the firebreak cut, drilling post holes, and plowing for my garden, and hopefully future pumpkin patch business. They are just so expensive. There are several on craigslist that are reasonable priced, but he has this thing about only buying a new tractor. I tried to tell him that tractors last a long time, and if you get one that is older, it is easier to fix than the newer ones. I refuse to pay $14K for a tractor, that is just crazy. A used one will work just as well, be cheaper, and allow us to have no payments. I am not getting sucked into the payment thing again, after getting out. We will have land payments, but I consider that an investment, and plan to pay it off when we sell the house in a year of so.
We did head out to the land earlier this afternoon/evening around 5 pm. We took sandwiches and ate on the tailgate of the car, then walked the property again, checking things closer, talking about plans and thoughts, and closely inspected the hog tracks on one end of the pond. Followed their trail a little way, until DH noticed that they had recently wallowed in the mud, and he didn't want to meet an angry feral hog without a gun. So, next time we go out, we will take the 9mm, and the 30-30, just in case.
It was nice eating out there...Lauren commented on how quiet it was. You could hear the wind and the birds..beautiful. She wants to have a bon fire on the property like my sister Ann normally has on Christmas and New Year's Eves at her land. I think I will buy a fire pit though, the grass and brush look way to dry for a ground fire.
Need to remember to take the port a potty with us next time too, would have come in handy for Hannah, she is a small town girl, and a little countrified, but still too citified to use the bushes. She looked so shocked when I told her she could potty if it was an emergency. She said she'd wait. She also doesn't like the long grass, which I LOVE! It blows and waves in the wind, and makes me thing of Little House on the Prairie, and of "amber waves of grain". LOL!
On the agenda for tomorrow is:
wash clothes
clean
make grocery list
make cookies
bake gingerbread
Well, off to bed...good night all!
1 comment:
Congratulations Amy. I'm happy this is working out. Don't feel bad about spending money for yourself and family. There will always be others with greater needs but you can do more for them in the future by wisely investing in this land. Quit the guilty thing. We love ya.
bob and Cherie.
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