Moving in to your new homestead
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The newness of beginning a new life will lose it shine after a short period, often since many of us are not thoroughly prepared to live like many did just 50 years ago. Gone are the late nights of partying and running to the store every other day. No, now you rise with the sun and may even work late into the evening to get chores done. It is indeed a simpler life, but that does not mean a slower or dull one. When you have your own place, working to get it to producing all the goodies you think you want and need, it becomes a whole new mind set that can get out of hand pretty quickly.
As in relationships and other situations, there is a honeymoon period where things are Hunky Dorie and full of wonder at getting started and finished. These days are filled with all sorts of projects that will give you the sense of being tired. Physical and emotional tiredness will hopefully be relieved by your comfortable bed.
You diet will probably be so much better now too. Home cooking is one that is both an art and joyful. Main ingredients that come together to form the basis of the energy that allows you to meet the challenges of the new day at breakfast, and shores you up for continuing your workday around your place. Then finally a dinner/supper, for a break in the day for nourishment and game-planning on what needs done before dark, before the end of your day. If you are the one working outside the homestead then you will find probably something new each day if you commute home daily or a sense of wonderment at all the new things occurring while you are out of reach. If you work outside the homestead, I request you keep in mind that you have a loved one working at home and a treat is always a good idea. At first it might be flowers, soon it would turn into a favorite food that you both enjoyed and no longer head out for. Or maybe the new tool or supply of something that would make the homestead move forward. The memories are really handy to be made. Hoping I am drawing a good picture for those of you that are heading out on this journey. Hoping I am bringing back some good memories of the good one days when you were just beginning a new homestead.
I grew up out in the country & so did my husband before we got jobs in Houston.We escaped to remote West Texas 15 years ago with our child & have enjoyed the benefits & dealt with challenges of sort-of Homesteading. To be more accessible to our aging parents, we moved within striking distance of small, Hill Country town. We still enjoy hunting, gardening,livestock & have put in some preps with a hope that we won’t have to rely on them fully but your Prepper Community has convinced me that we need to move back closer to my husband’s medical practice.The 200 mile Round Trip Commute from our Luxury Bug-In won’t be safe or affordable we’ve decided so we’re not going to buy the 80 acres behind our estate is for sale (Rancher keeping 20 acres & his home) & instead move further west although we love this Hilltop Prepper Paradise . If you are wanting a safe location with some basic prep neccessities all ready installed & the Hill Country works for you, please visit the real estate website: http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/250-Bow-Hunter_Kerrville_TX_78028_M72379-71234 The Realtor really had no clue how to market or connect with the Prepping Community. I have asked him this morning to change the lisitng description to highlight the Prepping aspects & security so I hope it gets updated soon to reflect the No-Through Traffic & self-sufficiency potential. Please keep up the good work; I appreciate all the info. If you are shopping for property with Prepping Potential, you have to give the realtors a checklist about well water availablilty, adjacent property description, proximity to a highway (as in not too close), wind generating surveys for area that home sellers generally don’t consider. Still it is important in remote areas to find out how far & how much it willcost to bring in electric to use BEFORE you plan to switch to solar, wind, wood or methane energy. One place we looked at was going to be $15k-$20K to get electric to the building area. That’s not even the buggest estimate of some land we looked at. I noticed ther are no APN Meetups in the Tx Hill Country Fredericksburg, Harper,Kerrville Texas but self-sufficiency & going green/gettingoff grid have been big in our area for years. Most folks just don’t publicly address prepping.. Is anyone intersted in setting up APN MeetUp for Tx Hill Country?