Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Pastor Dave]

Reminds me of my Dad in the early 80's. He had his maps out of TN and we looked at Eastern TN, but ended up on the Western end.

 

[Mike CHS]

We are both from Missouri but that was never in consideration because of distance and besides that most of it is flat. West Tennessee would have been on the search area but there again Middle Tennessee was the limit (again because of distance). We wanted to keep it close enough to be able to work on weekends without killing ourselves trying to get here and back.

 

[RollingAcres]

We wound up with a little over 1" of steady rain that had very little run-off. Other than do Ringo's hooves and his CDT there wasn't a whole lot going on around here today.

Way back when we first started our journal I posted a picture of the original layout. Where the pan rack is now was the vinyl door that opened into the bathroom. I closed that off and added a door that opened into the pantry so we could keep more personal goings on personal.

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We wound up with 8 quarts of nice broth and the chicken that we used will all be used for soups so that is a pretty good return for very little effort.

 

[CntryBoy777]

I think that area is really nice and beautiful country too....all the way out to Cookeville....well, when I went there a couple of semesters back in the mid 70s....but, have climbed them hills quite often in a truck....

 

[Pastor Dave]

I like Indiana. You got the dunes or lake effect and timber land to the North. Flat open plains in the middle (where I'm from). And it gets hilly with timber in the South. I prefer Southern Indiana.

I browse at small farms and homesteads generally in low to mid $200,000's. I did find one recently with move in ready 3 bed, 2 bath on 3 acres with 2 car detached garage, a small wooden barn for storage or equipment and a small 3 sided shed fenced in to the barn. It has timber on all sides of the property. Nice little place asking $139,000. Good price for IN. Jill believes we couldn't handle payments on $200+ parcels.

 

[Mike CHS]

Property here with acreage is getting more scarce and more costly fairly quick but we are under an hour to Franklin (major business area outside of Nashville). We bought our almost 19 acres for just under $35,000 but according to the tax roles at the time the house had zero value and we gutted it down to the studs including the ceiling in about 75% of it.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Back in '84 Dad paid $12,000 for the 20acres here...of course that was without the house and pond, but the value of property here hasn't increased very much in that span of time, it is still less than $1,000/acre for parcels above 5-10acres.

 

[Mike CHS]

You can still get the steeper hill properties for under $1,000 an acre but land that is usable as pasture or row crops it's getting closer to $2500 an acre and up. Under 10 acres and usable can be as high as $5,000 or higher depending on how close to the towns.

 

[Mike CHS]

After I got the garden beds watered this afternoon the sky opened up and we got a bit over 1/2" in one of those isolated storm cells that have been missing us.

We canned our first batch of Sweet Banana Peppers this afternoon and we should be getting some ripe tomatoes in a couple of weeks. Peaches on our later blooming tree are starting to get some size on them so we didn't lose all of the fruit to the late freeze this year. The small patch of sweet corn is knee high and the melons and okra are setting blooms.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

The veggie and the beds look great....but so does the surrounding scenery!