It's hard to believe that it's been two and half years already since we purchased the property down the road from Pure Water Hollow! But now we are moving in and feel like we are having a new start, of sorts.
It was way back on June 15th, 2011 when we handed the $77,000 over to Virgie and filed the deed at the courthouse in our name. I thought it was a good price for 30 acres, a barn and a house. Virgie kept living in the house for some time and we were not in any hurry to move her out, but we did make use of the land beginning that summer.
The front part of the house was built around 1900, perhaps even the late 1890s. It has 4 bedrooms and a large shop/garage connected to the back.
The most useful part of the land we now call Pure Water Pastures is a couple of acres of flat land that was in hay. We used the hay for our animals those first two summers. I don't have a tractor of my own yet, so we hired some neighbors from across the river to cut, rake, and bail the hay for us in square bales.
Here is a nice picture of part of the field from that summer. I love the old tractor they were using!
During 2012 we kept busy at Pure Water Hollow and didn't do much work to the house here. Erica, our oldest daughter lived in it for part of the year, but other than that we just used the field and barn. 2013 was the year that we began to make some good changes at Pure Water Pastures with a large fencing project in the fields and moving in some animals. Matthew, our oldest son, also worked periodically on a major re-construction job on part of the house throughout the year.
The end of 2013 saw the family moving in to the house and we celebrated the holidays in the charm of our old farmhouse under construction! We still have very much work that we want to do in the house, but we decided to move on in anyway.
We are actually spread out between the two properties right now, which we plan on continuing as we gradually get more and more settled into the new house. We still have many of our animals at Pure Water Hollow Homestead, so we will continue going there regularly to tend to them.
Since I'm beginning this blog with a fresh start I hope to be filling in details of our life and family as I go along. I mainly just wanted to get a start with this post today and see what a second blog might look like. I believe I will be having much to record about our transition to Pure Water Pastures and the re-modeling project that is in the works!
Happy New Year!
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