Carl and I married in 1999 with a dream to always move to the farm. Our weekends and summers were filled with taking our kiddos to the family farm in Pike County, hunting, fishing, shooting clay-birds, and finding the best swim hole in the river. The memories with our children are forever etched in our hearts. Our middle son still holds the record for the biggest deer, Dale, a beautiful 13 pt buck!
The joy we have experienced over the years with the kids at the farm are some of the best memories. If we weren't at a soccer game, basketball or baseball, we were at the farm. Food plots and mowing. Spotting walnut and pecan trees. Putting out trail cams and walking woods for sheds.
So in 2018, a conversation sparked with the neighboring farm of a possible sale. We had a hard time containing our excitement. To have our own farm, to share memories with our children on our ground, the dream we had always talked about could possibly come true. Living in the suburbs was not our cup of tea. We so yearned for peace and quiet!
In late 2019 we came to an agreement with the neighboring farm to purchase. Into gear we went adding finishing touches to our current home for market. New carpet, fresh paint, updated hardware on drawers and cabinets. A lot of "getting rid" of unnecessary items that never unpacked from previous moves. Staging and photos - on the market we went late March of 2020. Within 1 day, less than 24 hours we sold our suburb home and the fun of packing and storing began.
We purchased a storage container and packed the entire house into the container. We temporarily moved into my father in laws, we became the basement dwellers. Our youngest finished out 7th grade while our middle finished 10th and the oldest moved to college life. We were all over the place. In between basketball and baseball seasons, packing and cleaning as we went... it was crazy. All while working full time jobs too.
We took possession of the farm in May of 2020 and allowed the previous owner through July to pack and move closer to her kids. Once we had full possession, we started the demo work. Massive cleaning, stripping wallpaper... you know the kind that had been there since the house was built. Pulling up layers of old floors, reallocating closets into a bathroom finish, new drywall, and all the internals of a home, electric, HVA, plumbing... fresh paint and home sweet home was ours for the taking to move in Labor day weekend 2020. And so began the journey as farmers.
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