I will plan on coming for a weekend sometime between April and late June. We can plan a specific date as it gets closer. It sounds like it will be hard work, but great fun and a good chance to see how it works for me before jumping in with both feet and moving to WVA. My 17 year old is a football player, so I enlist his help for moving heavy things :-) My 14 year old wants to try "bugging out" and see how we do. This would be a great opportunity for him to get his wish :-)
For some reason, I don't know why, whenever I think about starting a farm, or farm life and communal type living, Nathaniel Hawthorne's book, The Blithedale Romance, comes to mind. It was a strange book...interesting, but strange. LOL The main character, Miles Coverdale, was a strange man. Anyway, back to the topic...
I am wondering what I need to be prepared to bring. Do you have restroom facilities and a shower? If not, I'm thinking I will see if I can find portable ones. When I used to visit my Grandma's (the place I'm thinking of moving to) she had an outhouse, a well outside of the house to pump water, and wood stoves...They did have electricity, but that was it. I remember how much I loved watching the light flicker on the walls at night and sleeping with 10 quilts at night because it was so cold in the winter :-)
I do believe in fate, and I think life will lead me in the right direction. It's kind of funny, because I said that if I won the lottery I would want to start my own organic farm, and I haven't won the lottery, but the opportunity to start a farm at my Mom's house can be a reality. I just wish I had more "cushion" to get started :-) (Still waiting on the lottery part.. LOL)
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