The Front Porch Swing

[wyoDreamer]

Well folks, keep your fingers crossed for me. DH found a place for sale that sounds perfect for us. It seems like when we find something we think we will really like, someone else buys it before we even get a chance to look at it. On monday, I found a listing that sounded nice, so I sent him and our realtor an email to take a look at it. It had been on the market for 3 months, and the sellers accepted an offer that morning. that was at least the third time that happened to us. Unfortunately, he is busy this weekend and won't be able to look at it until Monday after work.
The listing is for the house, detached garage and barn on 10 acres, but says there is more land available - I looked it up, it is a 40 acre lot, in front of a 40 acre lot. The house is small and pretty old - it must be rundown pretty good because the listing states "being sold as is". No inside pictures either. But it is close to the highway and an acceptable drive to DH's work - about 20 miles. I have gotten DH around to my way of thinking - we can fix a house, we can't make more land. He is thinking to gut the house and remodel it, put on an addition and install a new septic. According to everything I see online, it has great soil for gardening, there is room for a small orchard, an area that would be perfect for a chicken coop and run and nice mature shadetrees in the yard.. Zoning is ag/rural residential, it has abandoned farm fields behind the house - classified as sandy loam. Really healthy vegetation in the photos, nice and dark green, so they haven't been farmed for a while..

 

[wyoDreamer]

Boy everyone has been chatty today! I got 14 out of 15 eggs today.... Been busy with laundry and haven't gotten online much. I've folded and put away 6 loads already, plus have a load in the dryer and one in the washer.... and I'm still not done....

I have a load of jeans in the washer right now and it is midnight. Need to throw them in the dryer first thing in the morning and hope they dry before I need to head out for work.

 

[Lacy Blues]

Well folks, keep your fingers crossed for me. DH found a place for sale that sounds perfect for us. It seems like when we find something we think we will really like, someone else buys it before we even get a chance to look at it. On monday, I found a listing that sounded nice, so I sent him and our realtor an email to take a look at it. It had been on the market for 3 months, and the sellers accepted an offer that morning. that was at least the third time that happened to us. Unfortunately, he is busy this weekend and won't be able to look at it until Monday after work.
The listing is for the house, detached garage and barn on 10 acres, but says there is more land available - I looked it up, it is a 40 acre lot, in front of a 40 acre lot. The house is small and pretty old - it must be rundown pretty good because the listing states "being sold as is". No inside pictures either. But it is close to the highway and an acceptable drive to DH's work - about 20 miles. I have gotten DH around to my way of thinking - we can fix a house, we can't make more land. He is thinking to gut the house and remodel it, put on an addition and install a new septic. According to everything I see online, it has great soil for gardening, there is room for a small orchard, an area that would be perfect for a chicken coop and run and nice mature shadetrees in the yard.. Zoning is ag/rural residential, it has abandoned farm fields behind the house - classified as sandy loam. Really healthy vegetation in the photos, nice and dark green, so they haven't been farmed for a while..

I'll be

and praying for you. Hope this is the one!

 

[wyoDreamer]

Lol... I have always had dogs that were not so food motivated.... LOL... Sight hounds, Aussie crosses, Dachunds, Boston terrier. Poodle. No If I had a dog that was obviously going to gorge himself... Feeding would change for the whole pack.

deb

We adopted a lab from the pound after I put my husky down when her cancer got too bad. Man, that was one food motivated dog. I had to split her twice a day feedings into three small servings because she inhaled her food without chewing. Our irish setter was one of those dogs you would just leave the bowl of food out and take a bite when he was hungry type of dog. Couldn't do that with the lab around, so had to train him to eat when food was served, he never was very happy about that arrangement.

 

[lindz8504]

I sure hope you make your own laundry detergent. 

I do. About every 4 months

 

[ocap]

Where the Red Fern Grows was one of my favorites, my grandfather raised hounds in eastern Oklahoma and I had tears in my eyes the whole time I was reading that book, Dad Jinks was what we called him, he loved to watch "The Rifleman" with me on TV, went Christmas shopping with us when we bought baby rabbits for our daddy.

Thanks for letting me sit for a while on your porch.

 

[TexasLisa]

Well folks, keep your fingers crossed for me. DH found a place for sale that sounds perfect for us. It seems like when we find something we think we will really like, someone else buys it before we even get a chance to look at it. On monday, I found a listing that sounded nice, so I sent him and our realtor an email to take a look at it. It had been on the market for 3 months, and the sellers accepted an offer that morning. that was at least the third time that happened to us. Unfortunately, he is busy this weekend and won't be able to look at it until Monday after work.
The listing is for the house, detached garage and barn on 10 acres, but says there is more land available - I looked it up, it is a 40 acre lot, in front of a 40 acre lot. The house is small and pretty old - it must be rundown pretty good because the listing states "being sold as is". No inside pictures either. But it is close to the highway and an acceptable drive to DH's work - about 20 miles. I have gotten DH around to my way of thinking - we can fix a house, we can't make more land. He is thinking to gut the house and remodel it, put on an addition and install a new septic. According to everything I see online, it has great soil for gardening, there is room for a small orchard, an area that would be perfect for a chicken coop and run and nice mature shadetrees in the yard.. Zoning is ag/rural residential, it has abandoned farm fields behind the house - classified as sandy loam. Really healthy vegetation in the photos, nice and dark green, so they haven't been farmed for a while..

How exciting! I will be praying you get your home. If the house is that bad, put a trailer on it until you can build.

Lisa

 

[Beekissed]

Well folks, keep your fingers crossed for me. DH found a place for sale that sounds perfect for us. It seems like when we find something we think we will really like, someone else buys it before we even get a chance to look at it. On monday, I found a listing that sounded nice, so I sent him and our realtor an email to take a look at it. It had been on the market for 3 months, and the sellers accepted an offer that morning. that was at least the third time that happened to us. Unfortunately, he is busy this weekend and won't be able to look at it until Monday after work.
The listing is for the house, detached garage and barn on 10 acres, but says there is more land available - I looked it up, it is a 40 acre lot, in front of a 40 acre lot. The house is small and pretty old - it must be rundown pretty good because the listing states "being sold as is". No inside pictures either. But it is close to the highway and an acceptable drive to DH's work - about 20 miles. I have gotten DH around to my way of thinking - we can fix a house, we can't make more land. He is thinking to gut the house and remodel it, put on an addition and install a new septic. According to everything I see online, it has great soil for gardening, there is room for a small orchard, an area that would be perfect for a chicken coop and run and nice mature shadetrees in the yard.. Zoning is ag/rural residential, it has abandoned farm fields behind the house - classified as sandy loam. Really healthy vegetation in the photos, nice and dark green, so they haven't been farmed for a while..

Just prayed!

After living in a two room log cabin with my whole family as we homesteaded, I am here to tell you that you can live in any structure that has a good roof for extended periods of time if you just learn to adapt to it. I think your husband is on the right track for the house...just make sure it has safe wiring, good plumbing and a good roof and you are golden. It's much, much cheaper than building a house and old houses built back in the day and that have stood for years will likely outlast any new build nowadays. They used better wood and better construction back in the old days. And so much land!! YAY!

Besides...old houses have character! I lurv old houses!

We adopted a lab from the pound after I put my husky down when her cancer got too bad. Man, that was one food motivated dog. I had to split her twice a day feedings into three small servings because she inhaled her food without chewing. Our irish setter was one of those dogs you would just leave the bowl of food out and take a bite when he was hungry type of dog. Couldn't do that with the lab around, so had to train him to eat when food was served, he never was very happy about that arrangement.

Jake is the only Lab I've had that eats like his throat has been cut. The rest just ate like normal dogs but Jake acts like he hasn't been fed in a month...every morning.

Saw on Cesar Milan's show that you can help them learn to eat slower by making them wait for their food and I tried it. It actually works! He doesn't inhale it so badly and get choked on his food if I make him lay down, settle down and wait a bit before he eats.

Where the Red Fern Grows was one of my favorites, my grandfather raised hounds in eastern Oklahoma and I had tears in my eyes the whole time I was reading that book, Dad Jinks was what we called him, he loved to watch "The Rifleman" with me on TV, went Christmas shopping with us when we bought baby rabbits for our daddy.

Thanks for letting me sit for a while on your porch.

Come back any time!

It's always spring on The Porch and the food is always good here, the conversation light and entertaining and the love is so thick you can cut it with a knife!

 

[TexasLisa]

Wyodreamer, Bee is right! Old houses do have character. We bought our house almost 3 years ago. We were told it was built in the '40s and found out much later it had been built in the early '20s. Not only that but the house has been moved! It is standing strong and the wood in here is unbelievable--just try hammering a nail into it!

Lisa

 

[wyoDreamer]

We are lucky in the fact that we can do a lot of the work ourselves. DH knows plumbing, electrical, rough framing. drywall, tiling, etc. We could probably build a house by ourselves, except for the county requiring certified professionals to do everything in order to pass inspections. I trust his work over some of the "Pros" out there nowadays. He has fixed so much on our current house that the pros did half-assed. Only one valve in the entire water system - and that was right after the pressure tank. In order to pull the toilet to paint the bathroom, we had to turn off the water to the entire house.