So, the irony is we needed to sell our property because the upkeep was becoming too much for us. BUT, in order to sell it we are having to do all the things that needed doing.
We love our property, we have a largish house, a huge workshop and 20 acres. Now the land isn't flat, it is hilly and wooded. There are about 7 acres that are cleared and have grass that we mow but it isn't farmland, just recreational.
By the time we have sold it and paid moving costs we will end up in a smaller ranch type house (bungalow) with a small (by comparison) back yard (garden) and no workshop.
But we will be much closer to the VA hospital and that is becoming very important due to the number of ER visits we have made over the past few years.
We keep plodding on, doing as much as we can and hope that someone falls in love with the place just as we did.
We have had a lot, and I mean a lot of rain this year. The downpours would flood in front of the workshop and it would leak into part of it. We had new sloping concrete poured in front of it and we took down and replaced one wall and put up new guttering. It is so much better and we are very proud of ourselves. We did get some help from my stepson when he and his family came to visit a couple of weeks ago but we did weeks of prep work before he came and have done lots since he left but his help was invaluable. He was able to do the work that required ladders which we can't do anymore.
Thought I had better post as it had been almost two months since my last one.
I like making things!