Saturday, May 03, 2008

• So much to tell, too excited to tell it, and not nearly enough words to describe it! Well, to start with, my dad went on a motorcycle trip to Idaho to visit the boys in college and check out some land in the Potlatch/Kendrick area. If I ever wanted to move away from good ole wet Washington, I would want to move to the perfect place. I've been averse to moving to Idaho for some time, for reasons I don't have time to talk about. But my dad has found a place within bike-riding distance of the Callihans, with a creek, a barn and power. At least I think that's what it has, lol! I was doing a seed order when my mom and dad were talking about it so I didn't hear very much. The only thing that really registered in my thick head is that the property is big and I could ride my bike to the Callihans. The fact that's it's big means two things to me; I can gallop Nicki forever and ever! :) Oh, and two, plenty of pasture for the cows. We were previously looking at an 80 acre piece in the Palouse area and made an offer on it but the offer was refused. Dad wasn't discouraged however, and that's partly what prompted this trip. There are two specific reasons why we are looking for a property at all. 1) The wear on our van is really showing having to drive six hours almost every Sunday to get to church and get home, that's not to mention gas going through the roof. We have only been going every other Sunday these last few months. 2) We can't really be part of a community being as we live three hours from church. Community is something that our pastor has really been harping on lately. So, those are the most striking reasons for our property search. Why search in Idaho? Cause it's the only state that we know more than one person/family in. Christ Church in Moscow is fairly familiar church to us and it would be pretty close. Why not? Well, maybe cause Idaho doesn't exist, according to some conspiracy theorists. But of course, I don't believe the farce that Idaho is a farce. In any case, I have reasons for and against moving to Idaho, but if we bought the property in Potlatch, it would probably be a vacation property for a while. If we did pick up and move it would take us at least two years to actually get situated there. By vacation property, I mean using it for attending things like Trinity Fest in Moscow, and a place to stay just to get away from the farm and business for a little break. Besides that, a piece of land is a prime place to put our money into while the market is good. Anyway, apparently we're going to make an offer on the property and if (that's a big if) we get it, there is no chance whatsoever that we will not be going to Trinity Fest this year!!!!

  As I said, I was doing a seed order from Territorial while my mom and dad were talking about the property so I didn't here much. I've only said what I think and what registered (especially the bike-ride to the Callihans part!). :) Now that the weather has warmed up a little around here, I am really and truely getting the garden going. I have lettuce and other greens growing in cold frames, but you can't really grow things like broccoli, cabbage, corn, potatoes, pumpkins, zukes, turnips (for Nicki!), celery, tomatoes, and a ton of other stuff in cold frames. So that's what I ordered, and that's what I'm jolly well planting! :) Yes, I am growing peppers and tomatoes. It might be to cold for them here but two years I grew watermelon and if winter hadn't come so quickly that year I would have been able to boast about eating homegrown watermelon. I'm not doing watermelon or any fancy stuff like that this year though. I don't have enough room. That reminds me, my dad wants me to grow hops so he can make beer with homegrown hops. I want to but I kind of forgot to order them as plants at the right time so oh well for this year. Maybe when, er, I mean if we move to Idaho.

  That's my rant for today. See if it makes any sense. I have a tendancy to ramble on in an incoherant manner and never really stop except for when I can't think of anything else to say or I don't have just the right words to say what I want to say and then I just sit staring at the screen as the milliseconds whistle by and wonder if other people have as hard a time of thinking of what to say as I do......... See what I mean?

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