This could get long.
My name is Sue, I'm in Oklahoma and I turned 61 in March. I haven't been around for quite some time. No internet service at home, only when I'm at my daughter's. And when I'm here I'm sitting with the Grands and don't have time. But I've missed all your wisdom and things will be drastically changing very soon.
A few years ago I was laid off and just called it retirement. I bought a 5 acre plot across from my daughter and got my first critters a year ago... chicks. Rather random chicks - got a good deal at the feed store. 1 Gold Laced Wyandotte, 1 California White, 1 Brown Leghorn and 4 Cherry Eggers. I've gotten very attached to my ladies and have a few that want to be petted as soon as I walk in. The local feed store buys eggs from everyone for $1.50 and sells them for $2.00. But, this winter, mine were the only hens laying so I got $2.00 a dozen from him, in trade. They've been buying their own feed, so that's great. I got 4 to 5 eggs a day all winter and now getting 6 to 7 a day.
At any rate... when I moved out here to my little 5 acres it seemed like so much room. Not true. If you're looking for a place in the country, buy as much land as you can. I made a bid on a piece of property about 1/2 mile from here, but it's light years away in the way it feels. It's 36.6 acres with a little house and several out buildings, and it's all fenced. There's a little orchard with 12 fruit tree, but I have no idea what they are, and a large raised garden. He had the raised garden filled with good black dirt, it's mostly clay out here. I want to move NOW! Last Friday I was notified that my bid had been accepted. The current owner lives a few hundred miles away and hopefully I'll get a chance to walk the orchard with him this weekend if he makes it in and he can tell me what all those trees are. He's coming for the opening of turkey season. Hope he doesn't think he's going to get to hunt there after this weekend. I have a whole pile of no hunting signs ready.
I do like the way he layed out the property when he acquired it 30 years ago. At the front of the property along the gravel road is a large fenced field with a 1/2 acre pond. He got the pond dug and then didn't spend the money to have it sealed. Goof. So it's basically a 9' deep hole with 6" of water in it. But that's fixable. There's what looks like a large garage without a front on it divided into 3 sections. He had tractor in one, truck, and mower. I'm thinking 3 sections? chickens, guineas and maybe gardening stuff and mower. Don't have a tractor. I'd like to try turkeys too, but there's a flock of wild ones on the property, so don't know if that'd be a problem.
Anyway, from the road there's first the field and pond, then a small garden area where they had melons and herbs. Then there are the outbuildings all with their backs to the road; the building I described, and a shop with electric and water, a narrow building that would be good for wood for the wood stove, a storage building, and a laundry building with a washer and dryer in it. In front of this line of buildings is the house, also with its back to the road, facing a large lawn, garden and the fruit trees. Beyond that is many acres of woods. Among the woods is a clearing with a little building in it he used for hunting. We're thinking of putting my daughter's pigs back there and using the building for their feed and hay. My daughter is in the process of a divorce and she and the 2 kids (boy 4 years, girl 7 months) will be moving with me.
I hope we can close next week so I can get in that garden. My kitchen table is full of little plants that want to get outside!
My first day there it better not rain! I want to sit on my little open porch with my morning coffee and look across the garden and into the woods.
My name is Sue, I'm in Oklahoma and I turned 61 in March. I haven't been around for quite some time. No internet service at home, only when I'm at my daughter's. And when I'm here I'm sitting with the Grands and don't have time. But I've missed all your wisdom and things will be drastically changing very soon.
A few years ago I was laid off and just called it retirement. I bought a 5 acre plot across from my daughter and got my first critters a year ago... chicks. Rather random chicks - got a good deal at the feed store. 1 Gold Laced Wyandotte, 1 California White, 1 Brown Leghorn and 4 Cherry Eggers. I've gotten very attached to my ladies and have a few that want to be petted as soon as I walk in. The local feed store buys eggs from everyone for $1.50 and sells them for $2.00. But, this winter, mine were the only hens laying so I got $2.00 a dozen from him, in trade. They've been buying their own feed, so that's great. I got 4 to 5 eggs a day all winter and now getting 6 to 7 a day.
At any rate... when I moved out here to my little 5 acres it seemed like so much room. Not true. If you're looking for a place in the country, buy as much land as you can. I made a bid on a piece of property about 1/2 mile from here, but it's light years away in the way it feels. It's 36.6 acres with a little house and several out buildings, and it's all fenced. There's a little orchard with 12 fruit tree, but I have no idea what they are, and a large raised garden. He had the raised garden filled with good black dirt, it's mostly clay out here. I want to move NOW! Last Friday I was notified that my bid had been accepted. The current owner lives a few hundred miles away and hopefully I'll get a chance to walk the orchard with him this weekend if he makes it in and he can tell me what all those trees are. He's coming for the opening of turkey season. Hope he doesn't think he's going to get to hunt there after this weekend. I have a whole pile of no hunting signs ready.
I do like the way he layed out the property when he acquired it 30 years ago. At the front of the property along the gravel road is a large fenced field with a 1/2 acre pond. He got the pond dug and then didn't spend the money to have it sealed. Goof. So it's basically a 9' deep hole with 6" of water in it. But that's fixable. There's what looks like a large garage without a front on it divided into 3 sections. He had tractor in one, truck, and mower. I'm thinking 3 sections? chickens, guineas and maybe gardening stuff and mower. Don't have a tractor. I'd like to try turkeys too, but there's a flock of wild ones on the property, so don't know if that'd be a problem.
Anyway, from the road there's first the field and pond, then a small garden area where they had melons and herbs. Then there are the outbuildings all with their backs to the road; the building I described, and a shop with electric and water, a narrow building that would be good for wood for the wood stove, a storage building, and a laundry building with a washer and dryer in it. In front of this line of buildings is the house, also with its back to the road, facing a large lawn, garden and the fruit trees. Beyond that is many acres of woods. Among the woods is a clearing with a little building in it he used for hunting. We're thinking of putting my daughter's pigs back there and using the building for their feed and hay. My daughter is in the process of a divorce and she and the 2 kids (boy 4 years, girl 7 months) will be moving with me.
I hope we can close next week so I can get in that garden. My kitchen table is full of little plants that want to get outside!
My first day there it better not rain! I want to sit on my little open porch with my morning coffee and look across the garden and into the woods.
