Yesterday was a slow trip from Knoxville to our property in Florida, although the weather was very nice and the traffic was pretty light for 2 days before Thanksgiving.
We are excited about getting back to our property and renewing the serenity that we once had on this little piece of acreage. There have been a lot of changes over the 8 years that we have not been able to be here very often. A natural gas pipeline company has cleared a couple of the acres so that they could put in an additional line and also to park their vehicles while it was under construction. This was not done without a fight on our end. It took them 5 years to get our approval and then only when we were threatened with court and imminent domain. As it was, we made them wait until they were sitting on the outskirts of our property and had to move forward. Did we get enough money for the destruction they caused? Absolutely not. You can’t place a price on hundred year old trees and nesting for hundreds of birds and mammals. Did we get as much as possible? We like to hope that we did.
Things have grown up in places that we once had cleared, so we will begin again with those areas. The things that matter, our fire pit, our well, and what is left of those hundred year old trees are still here and waiting with anticipation for us to return home permanently.
Sleeping in our small tent that is set up in our small room was pretty wonderful. The anticipated rain was just enough of a sprinkle to hear it on the metal roof of the building making for very pleasant sleeping. Our neighbors (who are drummers incidentally) have a cornucopia of animals and we listened to them this morning as they crowed, baaed, hee hawed, quacked, gobbled, oinked, and cackled. I don’t know what type of sound an emu makes (if it makes one at all) but I will listen for anything that sounds out of the ordinary.
We have spent this beautiful, sunny day cleaning up the fire pit and getting the restroom and showering facilities set up. Sadly, the shower has a mind of its own and has decided that today is a holiday so we are probably going to have to revert to the old way of bathing…a turkey fryer and a bowl…because it's just to cold for bathing in the river right now!
It appears that I may have tweaked my elbow and I sincerely hope not since this is the first day of 14 days here. I guess I will just have to wrap it up and suck it up! We have a lot on our plates for the 2 weeks getting everything ready for the move we have scheduled the first week of January, so I don’t have time to lollygag around with an injury.
It is time for rest.
It is time for happiness.
It is time for rejuvenation.
It is time for a dream to be fulfilled.
We are excited about getting back to our property and renewing the serenity that we once had on this little piece of acreage. There have been a lot of changes over the 8 years that we have not been able to be here very often. A natural gas pipeline company has cleared a couple of the acres so that they could put in an additional line and also to park their vehicles while it was under construction. This was not done without a fight on our end. It took them 5 years to get our approval and then only when we were threatened with court and imminent domain. As it was, we made them wait until they were sitting on the outskirts of our property and had to move forward. Did we get enough money for the destruction they caused? Absolutely not. You can’t place a price on hundred year old trees and nesting for hundreds of birds and mammals. Did we get as much as possible? We like to hope that we did.
Things have grown up in places that we once had cleared, so we will begin again with those areas. The things that matter, our fire pit, our well, and what is left of those hundred year old trees are still here and waiting with anticipation for us to return home permanently.
Sleeping in our small tent that is set up in our small room was pretty wonderful. The anticipated rain was just enough of a sprinkle to hear it on the metal roof of the building making for very pleasant sleeping. Our neighbors (who are drummers incidentally) have a cornucopia of animals and we listened to them this morning as they crowed, baaed, hee hawed, quacked, gobbled, oinked, and cackled. I don’t know what type of sound an emu makes (if it makes one at all) but I will listen for anything that sounds out of the ordinary.
We have spent this beautiful, sunny day cleaning up the fire pit and getting the restroom and showering facilities set up. Sadly, the shower has a mind of its own and has decided that today is a holiday so we are probably going to have to revert to the old way of bathing…a turkey fryer and a bowl…because it's just to cold for bathing in the river right now!
It appears that I may have tweaked my elbow and I sincerely hope not since this is the first day of 14 days here. I guess I will just have to wrap it up and suck it up! We have a lot on our plates for the 2 weeks getting everything ready for the move we have scheduled the first week of January, so I don’t have time to lollygag around with an injury.
It is time for rest.
It is time for happiness.
It is time for rejuvenation.
It is time for a dream to be fulfilled.
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