Family, Garden, Home

As you may have read here on this blog, Donna and I have been very busy over the past few months. In the early months of the year we were finding and buying a house. Then we had to move. Of course, the house needs work, and we’ve moved into an apartment...

There has been a lot going on over the past few months. To recap, in January we decided we were going to make 2014 a stellar year, I lost my job, and we decided to buy a house with cash. We moved quickly, making an offer in February that was accepted...

Both Donna and I had some familiarity with the South from our past experiences, but neither one of us had any real adult experience with living there, and we certainly had no experience at all with living in Georgia. Most of what we have found so far...

Our plan has changed since we made the decision to look for a house. I’m not certain how much of this I’ve written about here, so please forgive me if I’m repeating stuff or if some of this detail didn’t show up in earlier posts.
At first we wanted a place with some land so we could have a big garden and room to do the things we wanted. That is, we were looking for our ideal homestead property. While that end goal hasn’t changed, we decided instead to look for a house we would...