Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

[Mike CHS]

I have no advice for you about your mom but I know how you feel. I was lucky enough to have a job that let me work long hours but short weeks so I could help my mom run her business and enjoy her last three years as much as possible. They originally said terminal with 4 months so 3 years was a blessing. She was smiling the day she passed and she often said she had no regrets and was proud that her son didn't try to talk her out of the choices she made.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Yep, getting the new house will run your stress level down to "chill" compared to what you have to deal with now. Won't the owners of the current place have fun trying to find renters half as good as you two!

Exactly!!

It may not be the amount of land ya wish to start with, but ya never know in a few yrs the land around that 10 may come up for sale....and ya can just expand out with it. It sounds to me like a really good opportunity, it is always nice to leave the riff-raff behind and be able to Enjoy life....instead of dreading it.

Even if we could buy land to add to it, we would not want to stay there as "our" farm. DH job is temporary, my job is permanent until/if the farm ever supports us. So it doesn't make sense to settle for good farther away from my job.

I hope you win the bid. We bid up on our place and won the bid because everybody else bid down or bid the asking price. Hope you get the house!

On your Mom, I really don't know what to say. I am truly sorry that your Mom refuses treatment, but at the same time, I can't really blame her. She really is between a rock and a hard place. That also puts you between a rock and a hard place. Big hugs. We are here for you if you need to vent, scream, cry or just hang out.

That was out thinking to Bay. thanks Bay hugss.

I have no advice for you about your mom but I know how you feel. I was lucky enough to have a job that let me work long hours but short weeks so I could help my mom run her business and enjoy her last three years as much as possible. They originally said terminal with 4 months so 3 years was a blessing. She was smiling the day she passed and she often said she had no regrets and was proud that her son didn't try to talk her out of the choices she made.

This is a fast spreading cancer in less then a year and a half it went from cancer cells to a very large tumor and into her lungs....so i dunno. Stressful but atm i am just trying not to think about it as it will be another 1.5months before any doctor visits.

So yesterday i was in the middle of responding on my thread and updating about the house when the realtor called. He said Freddie rejected all 3 offers and asked for "biggest and best" new offers due by 1pm today. So i up'ed our offer by a little over 11% of the asking price and i hope that is enough. So now waiting to see if we get it or not. From what the seller's agent alluded to(supposedly on accident) was that of the original 3 offers ours was the highest. But our offer was no so high as to make them pick us.
I am honestly really hoping that the only original offer people dont make another offer and the late comer offer people only offer asking price. It makes me feel like an evil person to be wishing that but dang it we need this place.
The next comparable place which would possible work with many years of work they are asking 73k for and it is 12acres. The house is 600sqft bigger but the down side is there is no barn. The almost impossible side is there is no pasture, the place was clear cut like 2-3yrs ago and they left all the stumps/branches/sticks lay where they fell and there are now 5-6ft tall thorny junk bushes covering approx 9 acres of the 12 acre parcel and the house, garden, orchard, and other buildings as well as pond take up the other 3 acres....so essentially we would have no pasture and need to clear any land we wanted to make pasture before seeding it with a pasture mix.

 

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[Latestarter]

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[CntryBoy777]

I think ya will get it....

 

[misfitmorgan]

Also forgot to mention we got 3 more sheep sheared and and and....the Llama!! We have one sheep left to do and then we will be done shearing for this year.

Here is a pic of DH running the shears. That particular sheep was the hardest sheep to shear, she has some insanely thick fleece to where the shears didnt even want to go thru her wool. We are gonna stick the 13 tooth comb on and knock the wool down and then clean up with the finer comb if needed when we do her sister...which is why she wants sheared yet. Hopefully Saturday i can get some nice pics of the freshly shaved herd.

BTW never try to shear on one of these kinds of boards......DH found that the sheep slide all over the place.

 

[misfitmorgan]

I think ya will get it....

I wish you lived closer @CntryBoy777 we could give you our truck. Its needs the tranny fixed but it has 3/4 ton springs in it. We had it for a farm truck before we bought the f250.

I need to catch up on your thread

 

[CntryBoy777]

I wish ya did too!!....I'm sure we could work out a mutually satisfying Deal....

 

[Latestarter]

Sorry, had to sit here and laugh about shearing a sheep that's sliding around the board on its butt. I'm sure coupled with the thick fleece it wasn't fun or funny for DH...

 

[Baymule]

I hope you win the bid on the house and land. Take a bit of advice and do NOT breathe a word to your idiot landlord. (I dunno know the origin of the word landlord, but in this case I think the word denotes a being of higher intelligence than the moron you deal with) They have done absolutely nothing to warrant not even the least bit of notice. Get the new place ready and move. Pack up everything you can without drawing notice and move it. Then call in your friends and do a one day marathon. Maybe even start at 2 or 3 in the morning and try to get everything gone before they come sniffing around. Grab EVERYTHING and get the hell out. These weirdos are so hateful that they could come in and start grabbing your stuff while you were gone. Lie to them if necessary, be very vague, assure them that you are not moving, whatever it takes to keep them appeased.