February 2010

We are trying to get our Missouri house ready to sell. I have been packing pictures, bric-a-brac, and other personal items. We have been examining our possessions, many collected in the last couple of decades in this house. Some will come along with us, espresso machine, there are no real coffee shops within an hour of the farm. Kevin is stocking up on ammo, how to repair books, and I am learning to do crafts, both practical, (soap making, and canning), and entertaining scrap booking, embroidery, and card making. The goal is to list the house by mid March. We are hoping to be on the farm by Thanksgiving 2010.

The first night

Kevin went to closer on the house the beginning of December. It was the first snow of the year in Amity. He stayed in a hotel the first night there, drove to the house the first day there, and did a walk though since the place was unlocked.There were actually no keys to the house, in a town of less than two hundred people, I guess there isn't a real need. There was no working furnace in the house but Kevin stayed there for two nights cooking over an open fire outside. He had a kerosene heater in the house and an oil lantern, but no power and no heat, plus the isolation was pretty tough. I rented him a hotel room for his last night and pretty much insisted he stay there where he could have a shower and a warm comfy bed.