Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Life in Flux

All I want to do is settle down on my little hobby farm with some chickens, a cow, and maybe some ducks. I want to plant a garden and line-dry my clothes. I want to chase after my little one while she collects dandelion blooms for me to make dandelion jelly. Is that too much to ask?

Well, we still haven't sold our NY home, so we couldn't buy a place here in NC. We were fortunate enough to find a landlord who didn't mind our 108-pound monster dog or our cat. He also let us put up a clothesline and plant some vegetables, even though it makes mowing the lawn more difficult for him. However, our landlord informed us that on his birthday in January, he'll be officially retired, and he'd like to sell his rental homes. He said he won't kick us out if we want to stay, but I'm not sure if that means he expects us to buy this place or not. So, always prepared, we've been doing some searching for new places to rent. But good grief! Finding a place in our price range that will let us have our mutt is proving near impossible. It's a good thing we've got until January.

So if you don't hear from me, well, I'm too busy looking for a place to live.