rachels.haven's Journal

[greybeard]

Lol, silly @greybeard . Its actually getting more crowded very fast. We get caught in stop and go traffic on a regular basis now. Do not drive between 3 and 7:30 anymore. Grocery shopping is becoming very difficult with the fast population growth, especially the weeks in the month before Christmas. Four years ago it was almost vacant including around the holiday. Going back to being busy city area.

When I was a teenager, Detroit was the 4 or 5th largest & fastest growing city in the USA. Population was right at 2 million (1,849,568). Today, it is (wiki) 23rd largest city with a 2017 population of 673,104. It hasn't been a 'top 10' US city in 18 years.

 

[Bruce]

That is a lot of serious decline.

 

[Latestarter]

Congrats on finding an acceptable place for both of your needs. Looking fwd to some pics when you get the chance. Hope the move goes smoothly and you're able to get all settled in. You will actually have time to maybe prep for some garden space as well as the animals that you want/need.

 

[rachels.haven]

Thanks! Yes, I REALLY want my life back together soon. Being molded out of my home and moving has really disordered my quiet little orderly universe and I'm ready to be finished with that now.

Detroit may never re-become what it once was-walking around the down town and going into some of the buildings you can see how grand it was-but the suburbs are growing to carry that weight. If the suburbs would quit bloating and city people actually worked to fill the city back in it would probably come close. But I think the whole area is going to be okay. It's really congested because the suburbs are built ONLY for cars and not that many cars, but people are getting by. Brutal traffic though. The Boston area is better based on what I've seen. In Woburn at the moment.

 

[greybeard]

growing suburbia contributed greatly to Detroit's historic decline but that was not the only factor.

 

[Bruce]

In some cases people get sick of the commute from "outside" and see that there are a lot of nice older homes in the city for a reasonable price and move "inside".

 

[rachels.haven]

Last night, late at night I realized that even though I didn't take pictures I could probably pull pics from the add and put them up, at least for a little while. So here we go. The house is a little large, but the market was fairly limited. I think the kids will like it on rainy days at least.

So here's the barn.

And here's the hay loft. The barn is visible from the master bedroom.

And since this is "backyard" herds, here's the backyard. The acreage goes on to the left side and above the house. It includes a creek.

Anyway, I think this is okay. The website wants you to "share" the pictures, so here's a share.

Can't wait to get back to home so I can be with my goats and prep things for moving. I'm already looking forward to giving everyone a brush down, hoof trim, and a fresh bed to lay on at night.

I also need to remove the inner cattle panel shell of their pen so the panels can come with me with the other panels that are laying on my driveway and the extra posts in the garage. That may or may not involve patching up some welded wire so it can contain them and last the lag time between the movers taking the panels and us taking up the goats. Not that they want to be anywhere except for inside their shed right now.

I'm not sure what kind is available still, but since we moved to gentleman farmers' horse country it appears there is still horse hay available for sale at various local feed stores. That's VERY nice, whether or not I'm taking my round bales.

 

[RollingAcres]

Love that barn! I could just live in the barn instead of the house. lol

 

[greybeard]

I'm not sure what kind is available still, but since we moved to gentleman farmers' horse country it appears there is still horse hay available for sale at various local feed stores

Buy it, and load it all on a trailer and bring it down here. You can name your own price. In regular years, horse hay was going for over $10 bale...about 45# bales. This year, hard to say, since there isn't any to be had here.

 

[rachels.haven]

I know! It would mean less vacuuming for sure!!! (*grumble, grumble, unnecessary grumble*) Plus, when the kids trash rooms and dishes get dirty while you're not looking or not home, where the animals live always looks SO tidy and low maintenance.

I feel really blessed the way things are working out. We don't really have a home to sleep in right now until things are waterproofed and de-molded. And next month we're moving into THAT. So we just have a month at worst to crash at the SIL's house, maybe less if we can get the mold people back out sooner and/or closing sooner.

Btw, I'm SO bringing my round bales. They are part of the stuff in the garage in my book, and there are only two of them and they are "small". It's nice hay. But it's a nice feeling knowing that if I run out it will not just be tsc whatever they've got compressed bales until first cutting time.