Transplanted City Girl
• Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - We (HOPE) we found our land!
Whew. Where do I start? Guess the beginning would be a good idea...
Well, Chris and I went on a road trip to Sasakwa, OK to look at some
property for sale there. No, we don't know any one in the area,
but the land looked so nice and everything we could find out about the
area sounded like just what we were looking for, so we took the plunge,
made the trip.... and LOVED the land. So yes, we put an offer in
on it and should hear back from the guy by Friday, June 2nd. I am
SOOO excited.
Now to describe this place. It is wonderfully secluded, which was
a real blessing. 20 acres with a brand-new cabin, well, septic
system, and well house. The cabin is furnished, and there are
some extra's like a bunch of scrap lumber, a little motor boat and
trailer, and so much more moisture then here in Colorado. The
cabin is in a clearing on the top of the hill, then there is a
good-sized pond off to the side and down the hill. The hill
behind the house is wooded, but not thickly so, and the hill is not a
real steep slope. THe hill in front of the house is pretty steep,
plunging into a very deep water-run-off bed. Though it
wasn't really wet, then just looking at the gully told you that when
water runs through there, it MOVES. Most of the 20 acres is
wooded, but a grass-fire that went through there last winter cleared
out a fair bit of the underbrush and scrubby trees, which will make
clearing the area much easier. Alfalfa and clover are
growing..... everywhere the sun can get, which is a fair portion.
The area on top of the hill, cleared and wooded, is mostly flat, and
very few of the hills are terribly steep. So yea, the place needs
a lot of work to turn it into a true homestead, but that's the whole
point!
Well, other then the land, the trip was very enjoyable as well.
Coming from Pennsylvania, I was dreading the humidity that comes with a
moist area. Oh, I was SOOO dreading it. Yet we were driving
a long, and the air kept getting moister and moister, and it felt so
GOOD! I never in a million years thought I would say this, but
the humidity felt energizing! So we spent a day or two driving
around the area, checking out the cities nearby for jobs, picking up
newspapers so we had the Help-Wanted Ads, things like that. It
was wonderful to get out again, just the two of us (Probably the last
time for a very long time) and have a cel phone without service,
nothing to worry about.... Yes, I feel quitre refreshed and ready
to tackle anything. However, since the land is all that's on my
mind, and Chris's, there really isn't anything else to update about,
and I will close now.
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• Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - Wow