Update on my new place
Aug. 5th, 2024 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaIt is now a little more than a month until I move into my new place. I keep feeling like something will happen to prevent it, like having miscalculated on the finances of it all or something (but obviously I've worked through them multiple times and also shown them to my mom!). It's such a change in my life that I wonder if it will actually happen??
But on the other hand, things are now much more settled: I have found three housemates who want to live with me, and whom I am excited to live with! I feel like it will make such a difference compared to my previous housemates, with whom I didn't have much in common. The one I met first (J) is already becoming a friend, and we call each other on the phone quite often. All of them are interested in vegetable gardening and land stewardship, which is great as it means more people to share the labor that having 10 hectares of land will inevitably mean. The greatest hurdle right now is that J has three horses (also a cat and five chickens, but those are not a problem). She tends to accrue animals, it seems. One of the horses is old and has cancer and will soon have to be put down, so that leaves one normal-sized horse and one small Shetland pony. So right now we're discussing whether she can bring the horses. And...I think it will be possible, with the understanding that she has the responsibility for them. I will have grazing land, and I will have a building which is now used as a garage for a mobile home, but which J says could be used for the horses in the winter with very little modification. There are also neighbors who are interested in the grazing land for their sheep because they have too little of it, but we're going to talk with them and see if we can make it work. J says that anyway it's good to switch which kind of animals graze the land, because of parasite load. And I want the pastureland grazed anyway! Otherwise it'll become shrubby.
So far all the neighbors seem friendly, and the people selling the place are so lovely. They've let me come and visit multiple times and are leaving a lot of the furniture etc. Oh, and another of the future housemates is a biology nerd like me! : D Looking forward to making a species list for the land with him. Finally, one of the apple trees is a Gravenstein, my very favorite apple variety. <3 <3
But on the other hand, things are now much more settled: I have found three housemates who want to live with me, and whom I am excited to live with! I feel like it will make such a difference compared to my previous housemates, with whom I didn't have much in common. The one I met first (J) is already becoming a friend, and we call each other on the phone quite often. All of them are interested in vegetable gardening and land stewardship, which is great as it means more people to share the labor that having 10 hectares of land will inevitably mean. The greatest hurdle right now is that J has three horses (also a cat and five chickens, but those are not a problem). She tends to accrue animals, it seems. One of the horses is old and has cancer and will soon have to be put down, so that leaves one normal-sized horse and one small Shetland pony. So right now we're discussing whether she can bring the horses. And...I think it will be possible, with the understanding that she has the responsibility for them. I will have grazing land, and I will have a building which is now used as a garage for a mobile home, but which J says could be used for the horses in the winter with very little modification. There are also neighbors who are interested in the grazing land for their sheep because they have too little of it, but we're going to talk with them and see if we can make it work. J says that anyway it's good to switch which kind of animals graze the land, because of parasite load. And I want the pastureland grazed anyway! Otherwise it'll become shrubby.
So far all the neighbors seem friendly, and the people selling the place are so lovely. They've let me come and visit multiple times and are leaving a lot of the furniture etc. Oh, and another of the future housemates is a biology nerd like me! : D Looking forward to making a species list for the land with him. Finally, one of the apple trees is a Gravenstein, my very favorite apple variety. <3 <3
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