Bird
Rest in Peace
Well, Neil, Thomas, and others, I guess I'll try to explain:
I originally bought a place in the country to have a place to move my parents next door, and did. However, now Dad is gone and Mother is in a wheelchair living with my sister in town. They think we ought to be closer to them and/or visit more often than we're able to. We bought in this particular area for two reasons: cheap land and my wife had a brother and sister-in-law living nearby. The sister-in-law has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and they sold their place this past year and moved back into town. She's handling the disease much better than she's handling the distance from my wife. The two of them have always been very close.
My youngest brother also bought 10 acres nearby to be near us and our parents, and the other brother (single, living in a motorhome) also fixed a place for his motorhome on the younger brother's place. Now the younger brother's health has deteriorated to the point that he had to retire and he's selling his place to go back to living in an RV to spend more time near their kids in the states of Washington and Alaska. So we'll have no family in the immediate area.
Of course, I also had a little supplemental income from an air tool repair business here at home that depended on my brother bringing the air tools to me for repair, so that's gone now and there really isn't much way to make any money out here without driving a long distance to work (or without being tied to someone's else's hours and schedule/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif).
We have two grown daughters and grandkids in town who think we should be closer to them.
My wife's mother (and a couple of brothers and a sister and their families) are in West Virginia and think we ought to visit them more often.
And while there's been nothing serious, I've had 6 little minor surgeries in the past 7 years, and my wife's had a few thousand dollars in medical expenses in the past 6 months. We're getting on in years and it's 20-25 miles (pretty rough roads) to a supermarket, doctor, hospital, ambulance, etc. And IF anything happened to me (heaven forbid), it would be quite a job for my wife and daughters to dispose of things here. So I have to agree with others that it would make a lot more sense for us to either be in town or at least closer to town. And I'd like to have time to do just a little more traveling myself.
So . . ., I really do want to sell this place, tractor, implements, shop, tools, etc. However, I'm willing to sell at a considerable loss, but I ain't gonna just give it away, so I may or may not be moving before the year's over. Either way, I'll probably still be around TBN for quite some time./w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif Hey, if I get back closer to town, I might even be able to get high speed Internet access instead of having to use these antique phone lines out here./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
I originally bought a place in the country to have a place to move my parents next door, and did. However, now Dad is gone and Mother is in a wheelchair living with my sister in town. They think we ought to be closer to them and/or visit more often than we're able to. We bought in this particular area for two reasons: cheap land and my wife had a brother and sister-in-law living nearby. The sister-in-law has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and they sold their place this past year and moved back into town. She's handling the disease much better than she's handling the distance from my wife. The two of them have always been very close.
My youngest brother also bought 10 acres nearby to be near us and our parents, and the other brother (single, living in a motorhome) also fixed a place for his motorhome on the younger brother's place. Now the younger brother's health has deteriorated to the point that he had to retire and he's selling his place to go back to living in an RV to spend more time near their kids in the states of Washington and Alaska. So we'll have no family in the immediate area.
Of course, I also had a little supplemental income from an air tool repair business here at home that depended on my brother bringing the air tools to me for repair, so that's gone now and there really isn't much way to make any money out here without driving a long distance to work (or without being tied to someone's else's hours and schedule/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif).
We have two grown daughters and grandkids in town who think we should be closer to them.
My wife's mother (and a couple of brothers and a sister and their families) are in West Virginia and think we ought to visit them more often.
And while there's been nothing serious, I've had 6 little minor surgeries in the past 7 years, and my wife's had a few thousand dollars in medical expenses in the past 6 months. We're getting on in years and it's 20-25 miles (pretty rough roads) to a supermarket, doctor, hospital, ambulance, etc. And IF anything happened to me (heaven forbid), it would be quite a job for my wife and daughters to dispose of things here. So I have to agree with others that it would make a lot more sense for us to either be in town or at least closer to town. And I'd like to have time to do just a little more traveling myself.
So . . ., I really do want to sell this place, tractor, implements, shop, tools, etc. However, I'm willing to sell at a considerable loss, but I ain't gonna just give it away, so I may or may not be moving before the year's over. Either way, I'll probably still be around TBN for quite some time./w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif Hey, if I get back closer to town, I might even be able to get high speed Internet access instead of having to use these antique phone lines out here./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
