Well, I mentioned before that I had grown up here on this farm. The farm was the only place I had ever lived as a child. Until I moved off to go to college in Nashville. My parents continued living here until my dad passed in 2017. My mother moved in with my sister and the farm was sitting empty. At this point the future of the farm was undecided.
Mom missed dad terribly bad like all the rest of us. She isn’t getting any younger and with all the work it takes to just do the upkeep on a farm. Mom and us kids thought it best if one of us bought it from her. We all had our own homes. We were not real sure what we were going to do but we knew we couldn’t sell the farm. After all it has been in the family for over 50 years. My parents purchased the farm from my grandfather years ago. We had to many memories to ever let the farm go.
The housing market at the time was not the best. Bethany and I had just completed a $200k addition to our home in Pomona. It was the home Bethany and I had always wanted. Still, I knew deep down that I wanted to move to the farm.
I had not shared with Bethany about my thoughts of selling our newly completed home and moving to the farm. I wasn’t sure she would want to. Even though she basically grew up at the farm. Beth was only 15 years old when she was introduced to the farm and yours truly. So she loved the farm too.
I am the oldest of the three children mom and dad had. I have a sister and a bother. My sister’s name is Jennifer, and my bothers name is Travis. Maybe I will introduce them to you all someday. Mom and us kids started having discussions about who would want to move out to the farm.
The farm needed a lot of work and still does, but we are working on it (slowly but surely). I had talked with dad about Bethany and I selling our home and moving down to the farm. The idea was we could help them out with the task that needed to be done on the farm, as they were aging.
After lots of discussions about the fate of the farm. I just ask what Bethany about her thoughts on moving out there on the farm. To which she said, absolutely. I really wanted to make sure she wasn’t just doing it for me. I knew all the work that laid ahead of us. She was emphatic about wanting to move to the farm even though we just completed the addition on our home. The farm was special, and we both knew it.
Both my siblings and mom knew it as well. That is why any one of them would have taken on the task if I wasn’t able to.
Growing up we had a real tight nit family. I know others do to, I am not saying we never had any troubles or problems. I think we are all still close to each other today because of that close nit raising.
The next step was to go ahead and purchase the farm.
After all of our discussions we decided to buy the farm. We listed our newly renovated home on the market. It sold in a short time and life as we knew it was changing. We had a lot of new things to adjust to. One of the main things was the size of the home we were leaving was about 3000 sq. ft. and we were moving to a much smaller 1200 sq. ft. home.
The size of the house and the years of clutter we had gathered was just one of the issues. We didn’t know where to put everything, so we downsized drastically.
With all this we were still very excited for our next step. We wanted to purchase cows among other things.
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