Good morning framing fowl!
To make a short story long, doc and I got a settlement from our bike wreck (kid ran his red light) and after getting the hospital bills and other expenses paid off we decided we wanted to invest what was left of the money into a place of our own instead of continuing to pay some one else rent.
We spent a lot of time looking for a place in and around Middle TN, where we were living at the time, but prices on land were ridiculous. I'm talking 5 acres of land with a well for $50,000.00 and that was the cheapest we found there.
So, I got the bright idea to come visit some of my transplanted family out here and we asked my mom and stepdad if they'd be interested in selling us 5 acres of their 38 acres. They said yes, we were thrilled and went back to TN with the highest of hopes. A few days after we were back "home" , mom called and said they'd discussed it more after we left and didn't think it would work out. Talk about forgetting how to breath! Those words just stopped our world (temporarily) and it was just numbing, at the time.
A few days after "mom dropped the bomb", she called and said there was an ad in the local sales rag that sounded like what we where looking for. So we made our second trip out here and after agreeing with my stepdad that we wouldn't buy the first place we looked at, we did exactly that!
We took one look at 8+ acres, that turned out to be two 8+ tracts side by side, and fell in love/felt at home at first sight.
So for just under 50 grand, we've got close to 17 acres of trees, native edibles, wildlife galore AND owner financing (which we couldn't find in TN). The left-over settlement money didn't last long but it got us out here and camping and we're making baby step improvements as we can and loving all of it!
We're about 25 minutes from the family, which is close enough, but not too close. We've met some great new friends, one of whom helped get doc hired on at his current job (which he loves and earns good money at for the area). We miss our friends back in TN but stay in touch with them and can't wait to have the room for them to come visit here. We'd have them out now but there are too many rocks to comfortably to pitch a tent.
We're so glad we didn't move to mom and dad's now...they live across the road from a "chicken house" and there's a neighbor who can't/won't control their dogs..would have been a lot more trouble than it was worth !
Well, I hope your eyes still work,if you've read this whole post, cuz I've done a fine job of making this short story long!
<- Not crying, melting! 
