The Beginning of a New Blog

Not that we aren't busy enough as it is, but I thought I would dedicate a separate location for our house/farm/moving challenge, struggle, catastrophe, experience.  Just to give you a little background how this all started......we go back to the beginning.

In April 2012 we purchased 102 acres.  About 30 of it tillable and 60-70 is wooded, ideal for hunting for the Hubs.  It has a shed and a "shouse" as we like to call it.

The Hubs is a wannabe farmer plain and simple, trapped in an engineer's profession.  Our first "farming" experience was to prep the fields for planting soy beans.  We ended up getting circle bales, not sure on the quantity - maybe 30 or so.

You can see one on the left there.





After that we planted soy beans, had the HOTTEST SUMMER EVER and had a really bad crop - maybe 7  bushels/acre.  I do love crop insurance though.





So now that the beans are out and it's winter we are working on our house plans.  Yes, two engineers designed their own house from scratch - how much fun is that!  There have been A LOT of revisions but we are about 95% pleased with where we are now and are having conversations with contractors to get some bids on it.  This. Process. Is. Slow.  It doesn't help that Tim and I are limited on time to do this and will often chose going to bed than spend another hour up and awake during the work week.

In addition to designing a house we are starting on the process of getting our current house ready to be put on the market.  I have dubbed it:  Operation Purge Schmidt House.  We are not even close to calling an agent to look at our house because the to do list would be outrageous.  So I'm giving it the ole college try, and with a little motivation from my new favorite blog:  iheartorganizing I hope to go through the rooms/drawers/doors/nooks and everywhere else to make our house more liveable and organized for 2013 - and for hopefully someone to like enough to pay what we'll ask for it.  Here's to hoping!!

So that is where we are at with this process.  Not very far, but we are excited and motivated as the plans are coming together and hope that will in turn get some wheels turning.