A home of our own! *We're moved in!* New pics! (post # 148)

[ChevygirlBeth]

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Lol... I'm glad I'm not alone! I have plans to plant bushes and trees strategically to block the house and yard from the road as much as is reasonable!

Thanks for the advice! That's good to know... especially with all the pines at this place!

 

[cozycritters]

Congrats! So charming!

I can't wait until we have some land. 42 acres sounds like HEAVEN!!!

 

[silkiechicken]

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AWESOME!!!!

I need to get out of the city! Darn jobs are all in the city....

 

[ChevygirlBeth]

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I know, we probably sound greedy saying that, but DH comes from a family with 600 acres, so to him 42 acres is tiny! With us both having cattle plus all our other critters, acreage is a necessity, but I figured we'd have to start out with 10 or 15 acres... I never dreamed we'd fall into 42 acres!

 

[Jolyn]

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I know, we probably sound greedy saying that, but DH comes from a family with 600 acres, so to him 42 acres is tiny! With us both having cattle plus all our other critters, acreage is a necessity, but I figured we'd have to start out with 10 or 15 acres... I never dreamed we'd fall into 42 acres!

No not greedy at all!!!! My husband would love 600 acres......However here in Ca i can't even imagine what that would cost.

We paid double what you paid for your entire property for just three acres with nothing on it.

 

[ChevygirlBeth]

We're fortunate to be in the sticks... things are less expensive here than lots of other areas. We're only moving maybe 15 miles from home (and just across the county line) and this is even less expensive than it is there. We looked at a place closer to home right before we found this that was 16 acres, a small barn, and house (with no electric in it because Amish lived there) for $180,000 (plus the $10,000 or so we would have had to spend to have electric installed). But I know, compared to CA, even that isn't bad. The prices you folks deal with out there are just hard for me to imagine!

 

[redhen]

beautiful home!...but..i cant imagine how your neighbors are close if you have 42 acres...

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[joebryant]

Glad for your having found your paradise. Enjoy!

 

[ChevygirlBeth]

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Thanks. Lol... you have to understand that I come from a very rural area and I'm used to having very few neighbors and including people who live some distance away as "neighbors." Where we live now there is one neighbor across the street and one more each direction about 1/4 mile down the road...

Here's an aerial view so you can see kind of what I mean about having lots of neighbors.

Oh and further south in the area that isn't pictured is a small town, too. So, it's lots more neighbors than I'm used to having!

Sorry the words got blurry when I saved it as a .jpg. The small red dot is our house. The red circled areas show all the neighbors.

 

[Bammony]

What a great thing that's happening for you two! Congrats! Funny how things just fall into place when the time is right huh?