Prep Monday—Still Searching


As you’re reading this, we’re out in the woods. Left this morning around 7:00 a.m. and will be home around 5:00 p.m. or sooner. I’m trying not to zero in on one property and think “this is the one” until we see them. For once, I don’t have strong feelings on any of them, so maybe that’s a good sign?

Here’s what we’re looking at:

Twenty-five acres with a creek.

Forty acres with a pond.

Thirty-six acres with a river.

And two properties, one 22 acres and one 40 acres, with house, well, septic, power, etc. Of the two, one is pretty overpriced, but we’ll see. And of course, I have to decide if the house and set-up will work for what we’ve planned, and my husband will have to determine if the buildings are sound. We ran into this before, saw the cutest cabin ever, way off the beaten track, had a road, a barn, water, septic, solar.

The house was just a tad shaky. Just.a.tad. So we passed.

I should add, too, that the river property doesn’t seem too likely. We’ve driven past it, a few weeks or so ago, and couldn’t exactly pinpoint what we were looking at—if it’s the one I think, there are a few old buildings that look like they got hit by a tornado or Godzilla or something. About 50 years ago, at least. So, a big mess to clean up.

On the other hand, that property goes not just TO the river, but ACROSS it. Cool, huh?

So, we’ll see. Tune in next week for the updates!

 

Prep Monday—Starting Over


That offer we were making a week or so ago? Well, yeah. We had a couple questions and were waiting on the listing agent to get back to our agent. She finally did, only to tell her that the seller had accepted another offer. Figures.

I’d like to say, and I will, that when the right property comes along, it will all work out. But in the meantime, I’m dealing with this collective suck of January. Dreary skies, not enough precip to matter, and cold. Okay, so it’s not as cold as a few days ago, which is fine by me—we do tend to have a frozen pipes issue when the temps dip into the single digits.

My motivation was sadly lacking this weekend, thanks to all of this. I know I need to put on my big girl panties, and I will, but for now, I’m just sulking. Or something.

Anyway, are there things you do to motivate yourself? Exercise helps me, although I take off one day a week, and planning and writing lists helps too. It’s a matter of forcing yourself to do it—at least, it works that way for me.

It’s like having kids—you clearly do not want to get them up, make breakfast, go through the hassle of getting them off to school, but you do it anyway.

So, to prep myself for moving out of this funk, I’m going to make a list of things to do when I’m in said funk, so I’ll have to get up and going—at least I won’t have to think about what to do, I can just do it:

Inventory and rotate supplies

Update supply lists

Start sorting closet contents for the sale pile in the garage

Make a list for husband (mostly projects to FINISH—yes, he read this blog)

All good winter activities, plus you can add new skills, new projects, whatever fits your taste, your talents, and your lifestyle. And your prepping calendar.