7 Days To Go

Ok! I guess the ole' saying 'all good things come to an end' isn't a lie. Here we are seven days from closing and my how many more forms do they 'all of a sudden' need. Did they not know these were needed a couple of weeks ago???? And one of the forms I am sure we have had completed a couple of times. It must be in that pile of nowhere land people get. So I guess we keep completing and sending and sending and sending. Hopefully one copy of the form will get to whomever needs it. I would think the laws of average would be on our side. If we sent the form they STILL need everyday, do you think one of those copies might get to the person who needs it by next Wednesday? One out of seven I think would be pretty good odds. The thing is if we don't close on Wednesday, there is a $50 charge for everyday past that we go. So I hope they get their stuff together soon so we can keep sending things back and don't have to pay additional money..oh and btw those commercials you keep hearing on the radio about how you can get a home for less than you pay for rent and for around 300 or 400 dollars a month WRONG! and the no downpayment thing GONE! Good thing this is such a great deal!

I believe we have been through a brief calming before the storm. I can expect within the next 7 days we will be going through some rough waters trying to get everything they want turned in. Just hope the mowers can stand the beating for a couple more days! That's called stress relief to a certain male in the family! The mower actually goes on the back of the tractor. It looks like the mower has lost a few battles but the ever so clever male can fix it! Yes, he CAN! (and then I hope he has some time to mow.  It's looking like live in the jungle and not the country.)

I am told this can go on a 3 point hitch system! See, I am learning more and more. Now all I need to know is what is a 3 point hitch system. Oh and don't worry about those wires you see in the background. I am told "WE ARE OK, I do work for the electric company, after all" That made me feel SO much better! And even more impressed with the way he organizes it all.

Through the next few days I am sure there will be some rough ones but I am also sure when its finally said and done and it ours, we will be ready to go and sweat those hot summer days to make it our home. Hopefully the weather will be nice to us when we start and not get above say...95 degrees.

9 days to go --

Tonight I thought we were going to have to recreate a scene of City Slickers! Coming home two small cows (ok I know I'm a 'city girl' but they were small cows not calves) were walking down the middle of the street. When Dean honked the horn, they started running but not the way they were supposed to go. They started running down the street and I thought they were headed for our house. One cow turned and was trying to get back through the barbed wire fence but couldnt it turned again and kept running. Finally, he or she found a piece of the fence s/he could ram through.The second cow kept walking down the road. Luckily a truck was coming up the other way and scared it through the fence. I thought maybe we were going to have to corral them with the truck. But all ended well and two small cows found their way back home.

Speaking of homes, day nine went by without any requests from the mortgage company. I guess that is good news. Here are two pictures of the house!

10 days and counting

So we found each other on Facebook and about a year later I moved in with him. Wow what a change of pace. No longer could I hear customers ordering late night food at the local Wendy's (nice nights I would open my bedroom windows to get the breeze and got people ordering food!).  No more hearing the sirens going down Noland Rd. Instead I found myself wondering what the howling noise was...oh, he says just a pack of coyotes so keep Molly (our dog) in for the night! Also discovered the different color of cows are different breeds. We have several Black Angus cattle and one donkey across the street. Never knew donkeys help protect the herd. Who would have thought cows have protective 'asses'! And sometimes when the cows are not very happy they make a horrible kind of howling noise.

One time I had to admit to him that I was ultimately a 'city girl'. We drove into the pasture and my job was to shut the gates. They come together in the middle and have a lock. I got the right gate and pulled it to and then went to get the left gate and by the time I had pulled the left gate to, the right gate swung back open. I looked at him sitting in the truck just laughing! Molly was in the back of the truck watching and then finally laid down! I had disappointed both! It was pretty funny. I finally got the gate closed and on we went.

I also have discovered real quick my 'summer city' shoe collection: flip flops and sandals really don't fit in the country with gravel and dirt roads. Tennis shoes and boots work best but I cant give up my flip flops. Btw this is only a small portion...didn't want to get carried away!

We finally tied the knot and are on a new journey...not the newly wedded bliss journey but the new home owner journey. Yeah!, didn't take him long to find the 'perfect' place - just 3 days after the wedding and here I though I was going to have some time to take to breather! We had been looking but every house we looked at all had one problem...neighbors! Gosh who would have thought the worst thing about a house would be neighbors!

So the house we have found and in the middle to purchase sits on almost 8 acres on the other side of town. No close neighbors!

We have been in this process now for a couple of months and what a process it is. Never knew someone would want my signature so many times. We have 10 days and counting until we are supposed to close. We will be renovating some of the house after we close, if we make it through the process. During this process I have encountered interesting things.

• when toliets flush, they go through a septic tank and out to latteral lines to who knows where (at my apartment, everything wend down the drain and I never gave it a second thought. now we have to put chemicals down the toliet to help the system stay clean.
• the more paper work you send in - they always want more 
• and when someone is angry about losing a home, they try to burn it down.

This is a foreclosure and the sherrif was serving the last foreclosure notice and found the fireplace on fire. The fire department came and saved the day!

Once we close all the work begins... luckily we have the hot summer months ahead to complete drywalling, painting, mudding, cleaning and moving. Although we do have an advantage of not having to put a time period on moving from where we are currently living.  I will have pictures of before and after while we are renovating this 'perfect' place!

In the Beginning

I have to start from when it all began.

My husband (just married April 16, 2011) and I met about 23 years ago. I was home from college (then Southwest Missouri State University) that summer and needed a job. I had a friend who worked in the Western Auto district office who helped me get a job. Dean was working there at that time and we became friends. We started 'hanging out' and spent the summer doing things young people do. He lived and grew up in a small town, Peculiar MO. I knew where Peculiar was as I drove by the exit each time I came home or went to school. I was raised in Kansas City, inner-city. Peculiar just a blip on the map.

Then it came time for me to go back to school, oh and to the guy I was dating. Dean wanted to continue the 'friendship' and I was not so nice. Remember, I was 20 years old with huge ambition or as I would come to understand, huge disconnect with reality. I told him, or so he says, that I didn't want to date a boy from small town especially one that wore plaid shirts! Soon he would want kids and I had no plans on having children. I wanted to live in a big city; New York, Chicago, Miami, etc. There was no room for a country boy like him. And off I went to school. He even tried to contact me later on and I asked how he got my phone number. Boy I really wasn't very nice to him! We lost touch for a long time and then alas comes Facebook! Gotta love it.