The Lake Place Update...

Life in the country moves S L O W !!!!

The last time we shared about our adventure homesteading on the lake we were positively, definitely moving fast... at the slowest pace ever!

To bring you up to speed...we sold our farm last December (2013), *sigh*  then bought our lake place this past June (2014) *smile* and have been dreaming, planning and working hard every since, on country time that is... which I may have mentioned is S L O W...

But we have a driveway now... Yes!

 

 

I love how it curves thru the property...

And after all the dozer work, we are watching the pond refill...

 

It's one great, big, over-grown mudhole right now, but, oh, I see possibilities!

Just wait... this is the perfect "Before" shot.

One day, we will all Ooooo and Aaaahhh over the grand transformation!

And, then we found an off-the-wall storage container for all our "Stuff."

 

It's an actual rail-container.  Perfectly weather-tight and roomy enough for all the important stuff we had stored and scattered all over creation this past year.

 

It's incredibly comforting to have our things all back together again... 

Kind of like Christmas as we find long lost tools, books and assorted, but indispensable junk :-)

And then there have been the bonfires in the rain...

 

And the hikes along Brushy Creek in the winter sun...

 

And little gopher hills popping up all over the place!

 

but such, cute, furry little faces, makes me smile...

 

(Farmer Husband is not amused)

But, oh, so cute, just saying!

We welcomed friends to enjoy our country place...

After, of course, reminding them that we have no water, no potty,

nor even a home.

But they love us and came anyway!

 

 

And the most recent development is also the most exciting!  Just this week we began drilling our water well.  Such anticipation at the lake place!

 

 

 

We are anxiously awaiting to strike gold any day!  Clean, cold water is our prayer!

We will keep you posted on all developments...

And in the meantime, we continue to lift up all those enduring their own journey along the pancreatic cancer road.  Perhaps you might feel our love this day in a special way.  Your struggles are not forgotten and we storm heaven's gates daily for answers to the suffering of this life.

Praying you are swept up in Grace and held closely in Peace this night.

My Love Always, Jane

 

Little Dozers, Big Infernos and the summer that slipped away...

The first day of fall?

Today?

Shut the front door... Summer is officially over.   And it obviously happened when I wasn't looking, or paying attention.  Which has been pretty much my life lately.

I think it must have something to do with sweating out all the heaven-help-us,
100-plus-degree summer days clearing brush at the lake... yes, I'm pretty sure that and the 2-story bonfire of said brush roasted all my brain cells.

So, to catch everyone up...

Last December, we sold the farm.

This June we bought the lake place.

Since then we've been spending every spare minute dreaming (and sweating) and working on our new, very humble, almost can imagine it, homestead... that's my way of saying that we don't have a house yet. or water. or electricity... yet.

But we have cleared the trees!  And have a driveway. Sort of...

Would you like to see?

Ok, so these aren't the prettiest (unless you're a manly man and really, really like tearing things up with chainsaws and little dozers and then burning it all to the ground...)

But, the thing I'm learning about dreams is that they're kind of messy and definitely sweaty... and oh so hard.  And very, very, absolutely, most assuredly worth every blister, thorn, burn and skinned knee...

Stay with me... There will be pretty eventually. (We promise!)

And since it is actually the first day of fall.  Here's a perfectly perfect picture to end this dramatic and sweaty post :-)

 

Ok, now I'm ready to go pumpkin-pickin' and plant my mums...

 

May you enjoy the splendid beauty of autumn's advent, dear ones.

 

My Love,

Jane