Moving questions
We've had several
move-related questions. Let's see if I can sum our answers up in one
post.
Especially with buying
raw land instead of a ready-made homestead, there are a lot of hoops we
have to jump through before we can settle in up north. Unfortunately,
most of them are out of our control, so we don't have an actual
timeline. I've been marking fun events to attend down on my planner
starting on August 30 (Ecuadorian ethobotany!), but I'll be quite happy
if we sleep the first night on our new land by the middle or even end
of September.
(Okay, I'm lying. I'm
totally impatient and want to be there now, now,
now! But I'm
pretending to be okay with the slow speed of real-estate deals.)
Mark's mom and her
partner have very kindly offered to bring a covered
trailer about six feet wide by nine feet long to transport our stuff, while Mark and I will follow
behind in a car full of unhappy cats. That said, I'm tentatively
planning to cram every nook and cranny of our car with potted plants
when we go up to Ohio for the closing. My floral offspring should
(hopefully) survive a couple of weeks on their own as long as the
weather isn't too hot and dry.
I'll admit that I was
having trouble focusing for the first couple of weeks after deciding to
move. But recently, I've actually gotten more done than usual. Most of
my move-related tasks are complete, and I don't have a garden to
manage. So I'm writing up a storm and actually feel a bit like I'm on
vacation. Looks like this change of venue is already a good idea.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Mid-September--THAT SOON?? But what will you be living in--a tent?
And are you going to get another trailer, or are you planning to build?