…eludes me.\u00a0 The search for a home to build or move to the property continues to be a struggle.\u00a0 Of course, it is a good struggle in many ways.\u00a0 It has become all-consuming.\u00a0 Thoughts of money and time and materials.\u00a0 Thoughts of mud and rooms and needs.<\/p>\n
The platform tents at High Trails might do the trick.\u00a0 Concrete blocks supporting a floor and canvas walls and roof.\u00a0 That will be one thing we do, for sure.<\/p>\n
I dream often of my Grandmother’s home in the Wilshire section of Los Angeles.\u00a0 A simple white clapboard home.\u00a0 She and Granddad moved into that home in 1920.\u00a0 She told me she stood at the kitchen window and knew she was in heaven and she’d never leave.\u00a0 This was after living in a tent in the winter in British Columbia, an undoubtedly hot house in Ponca City, Oklahoma and others.<\/p>\n
That’s all I want.\u00a0 Simplicity.\u00a0 Peace.\u00a0 The quietude of the forest.\u00a0 Eagles soaring overhead.\u00a0 Deer and frogs and hawks and dragonflies.<\/p>\n
Back to the drawing board and the books and the websites and the dream.\u00a0 It will happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
…eludes me.\u00a0 The search for a home to build or move to the property continues to be a struggle.\u00a0 Of course, it is a good struggle in many ways.\u00a0 It has become all-consuming.\u00a0 Thoughts of money and time and materials.\u00a0 … Continue reading