New beginnings!

  The boys and I are starting work on the other house.

  The other house is at least twice the size of the tiny house we are in now, the boys are old enough that they need thier own rooms.

  Where we are headed needs a lot of work and a great deal of cleaning, the house has sat vacant for around six years and had been being used for storage, so we have our work cut out for us.

  It could be made into a five bedroom house but we only need three, that will leave me with the basement to myself with room for a small home office.

  Brayzen and I cleaned the overgrown dead weeds from the front yard, we can sit on the old benches and use the firepit again.

  We’ve also cooked dinner there the last two days on an old Daniel Boone smoker I’d salvaged years earlier. Much to my surprise it turned on after just sitting uncovered out doors for all those years, most of the pellets were still good even.

  The auger was siezed in place from the pellets left in it turning into powder and becoming solid. Brayzen and I dug and scraped with a flat head screwdriver and eventually we got it freed up.

  The first night Brayzen stood on the front porch taking in the amount of work we’d done, he turns and looked at me and said ” you could make this into a paradise. “

  And I found myself in agreement,  it’s not the 160 acres I’d wanted so badly but it sits in three city lots, I will plant more fruit trees and put in raised garden beds.

  I’ll also be putting in a walipini and a good sized root celler. There will be many projects ahead, repairs to old shop equipment that has been in a state of disrepair and some reorganizing in the undersized garage to make a wood working shop.

  I’ll also finish enclosing the old car port and use that as a shop for welding and fabrication etc.

  While things haven’t been going exactly as planned and nearly having a mental breakdown from unexpected events making me question who I really am.

  Then I remembered I am who I’ve always been, a little beat up from the years and losses, but I’m still man my mom and dad raised me to be. It’s good to question if you’re on the right path and doing the right things from time to time. I think it’s normal.

  While I may not have it all figured out, I know for a fact things recently said to me do not ring true and made me realize it was things said to me that caused that doubt to creep in in the first place.

  If you’ve read this far, give a follow and watch us grow into more than we currently are.