December 15, 2017 The Turning Point

Yesterday we successfully delivered the Tiny Home Cabin to our Farm.

This is a significant event because it took nearly a full year to complete the New Year's Resolutions of 2016 and 2017: Get on the Farm. Also significant because the open question was: Will  the hopelessly under built trailer, we made from scratch, and which was planned in my head as I went along, make it to the Farm by freeway without blowing up, blowing over, or some other means of not making it to the Farm. It did.

And one other big thing to report: The Farm is now a real farm because today I tilled the soil in MacGregor's Garden.  We made it and our New Years Resolution can finally change. But first . . .

Here's the story so far. I'll try to be brief. . . 

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Back in 2013 Ann and I went to Las Vegas to get re-married. Look  here for the entire story, but the conclusion of the tale was that we decide to open a wedding venue that looks a lot like a farm. We would need money to buy the land, and a whole load of luck, and God's good graces.

We had no money so our plan was to: get some money by raising hounds, use the money (along with the equity in our house) to get the land, build a farm, build a wedding venue, and live happily ever after. The land came two years earlier than we thought it might. If you click here you can find out that in securing the land we did everything right, even though the land itself was too small and there was no house on it. Click here and you will find out how we bought the Farm, in January of 2015, and made the money we needed. (Not one penny more than was needed.) The short answer is that we got the land even before we had dogs to sell. Somehow it worked.

In 2016 the dogs began to produce for us (just slightly after I started keeping this Web-Log). This link will tell you more than you might want to know about the milestones we reached in 2015. The pups sold all too easily because we planned everything carefully and things broke our way. I won't give you a result in dollars, but we sunk every penny into the land once we got legal claim to it and the history of the place is this very Blog. The dogs have done well and we love them.

Our next challenge came at the mid-point of 2016 because it became clear that we would not be able to access the equity in our home without first selling it. The plan morphed into moving ourselves to the farm (living in a Tee-pee if necessary) and sell our house to finance the Farmhouse build-up. After a long search of possible solutions, to the problem of cheap temporary housing, we settled on a plan to build a tiny home. Click here and read the entire thing, but you already know enough about it.
Once deciding on building a tiny home the new project began immediately, and finished today.

So you have the jhist of the progress we made so far and need read no further. But you might not know the plan. Click here and see what we wish to build.

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End of story.

We made it this far and it feels like everything we will do from this point onward ought to be easier than the previous efforts were. We have a house, even if temporary. We have the land, even if . . . And we have the Farm, even if we are calling it Camp Creekside today. We'll change the name to Creekside Farm once we have a crop.