Delays, bumps in the road, sink holes, etc…
I know I’ve already explained our original plans to build our house on the farm. Remember the plans that all fell apart? Yeah, those plans. Well, our new plan was to continue to try selling our other land and save as much money as we could to start building our house. Well, saving money always […]
A week of Burning
Disclaimer: Just a heads up that this is a really long post. Sorry! If you need a good laugh and you’re short on time, feel free to skip to the end and read about the bird that got in the car and the rat that ate it. Yeah, I think it’s a guaranteed laugh! You […]
Charging a Nickel
When we first bought this property it was completely wooded. All the neighbors we talked to said it had always been wooded. We were told it had been logged twice, but at different times and in sections, but never all at the same time. No one we talked to had ever seen it cleared. So when we started […]
The Well-Part 2
Drilling the well went perfectly. Too perfectly. Where was the Carter Crazy story? I should’ve known something wasn’t right! Well, come to find out the price we paid to have the well drilled wasn’t the total price. Jim knew this but, I, somehow did not. Nope. I thought the extra low price we paid for […]
The Well
Once we decided that we were going to get started on the property we wanted to keep the ball rolling. We thought that putting in the well was the next logical step for us. So…. We were given the name of a guy in Marion who came highly recommended. He called us on a Saturday […]
The Power
We were excited to do something, (anything really), in the spring of 2017!!Sooooo, we decided we might as well call the power company and start there. Why not? Jim made the call and asked about the process for getting power out to our Ol’ Farm. Duke Energy called the next day and set up a time to […]
The First Inspection
We had decided to start on the building process. We were going to take it one step at a time. We planned to start with the building permits, then the power, the well and the septic. After that we planned to tackle the plumbing and concrete slab. Then the framing and roofing. Whew, that’s a lot… However, […]
Antler Springs Farm?
In late March and April of 2017 we had several good rains followed by a couple weather fronts push through the area that brought a lot of really good and much needed rain. A few inches of rain in just a few short days was a lot of rain though. We had never seen that […]
Grass!!!!
WE HAVE GRASS!! WHOO-HOO!!! Happy Dance time! Yes, I know it’s silly to get excited about grass growing, but we have to have grass to have a farm. Animals eat grass. Animals have to have grass to eat and we really need to have grass growing to have animals that eat grass. (Ok, please don’t judge me […]
Spring on the Farm
Spring is a beautiful time. Spring in the country is Amazingly Beautiful! Of course, you know me, I had to take gazillions of pictures of every single plant that was growing, pretty or not. Then, I took pictures of flowers and buds on trees from every possible angle. My kids were posed in front of […]
