January 18, 2014

Taken from my original blog

Post was titled-- "Ohhhhhhh. Myyyyyyyyy. Gooosssshhhhh. It’s coming true!!!"

Because as we write out our prayer requests and our deepest loves and desires, we always have something to go back to when Father answers them. We can say “whoa!! There it is,”.
So maybe this heavily neglected blog is in a sense a prayer journal because I can remember pouring my heart out about wanting a farm. Nothing crazy, just a modest little homestead. And ya know what, Father has answered that prayer.  :)))))))

So if I can keep it together and continue writing on here, I plan on chronicling our farm adventures.

At some point, if I do keep it together well enough and keep up with my neglectful writing, I may switch everything over to a true farm blog!  But for now, alas, we have Life with the Supernauts.

Two topics I want to hit: where we are with purchasing the farm and about the farm. And then my prelim plans

1.  Here is the listing
http://m.realtor.com/#rdc?action=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realtor.com%2Frealestateandhomes-detail%2F11338-N-16000E-Rd_Grant-Park_IL_60940_M79536-85365
There is a 4 car garage and the blue shed in the pictures will someday be the cow shed and/or storage. The property that the house is on is really 1.75 acres, the driveway and the bit of property on both sides of it is in itself 1 acre. The driveway is a quarter mile long. Goodbye shovels and snow blowers, hello snow plow!!!

As of right now, we have a contract active. The owners do have to to find another place to go, so our goal is to close next month, and they will then rent the house out from us until they find a new place to buy, or until June 1st. This was of course fine with us all because who wants to move in the winter!?

Right now we are just finalizing all the paperwork for the mortgage and then it will go to underwriting which I am so thankful that god is sovereign and in complete control.

We have a lovely couple renting our house out. And because our god is orchestrating the whole thing they can move in whenever, no tight restrictions.

Farm goals- first draft, rough draft, preliminary, dreams and ideas

1. Chickens- I will be getting them shortly after we move in. I’m looking right now for chicken coops or chicken tractors. But if worse comes to worse there is an old milk house on the property we may just convert to a coop. I want to be able to open the door every morning and let them roam, and I may for a while. I’m not sure what predators are looming about around the area, and I’m not sure if Harley the moose dog would be enough to scare them off. We’ll begin with the chicks and brood them until they’re ready for the great outdoors. If I can time it right, I may start the chicks here so when we move they can go right to the coop. All rough draft planning right now

2. Garden- we won’t be there in enough time to get the garden going for the summer. But I wanted to watch the first year and be able to see how well the land drains and plot out the best spot for the garden. In this year we’ll begin purchasing supplies for fencing and that sort of thing. No matter when we get there, I will be giving potatoes a shot in a growing bag on the porch and hopefully get some fall and winter crops in. (When I say crops, I mean plants.). I know NOTHING about gardening but I do know I want to grow LOTS of stuff. This is going to be the most challenging of all goals.

3. Trees – because the driveway is a good chunk of our property I thought the best way to utilize it would be to plant trees- sugar maples, apples and peaches. I want grapes somewhere as well but not sure where they’re going to go yet.

4. The cow- This is where my heart melts. This is where my heart is. This is the love of my homestead-a jersey cow. This equals milk, cream, cheeses, yogurt, etc. yummmmmmm!!!! It may be a few years before we are able to get her, a small pasture needs to be fenced and the cow shed converted but I’m hoping to have this sweetheart by spring of 2015.

5. Berries – no clue where they’re going but I I know we’ll have them somewhere. For sure strawberries and blueberries.

6. Alpaca and/or Angora rabbits. I have done no research on either one of these yet and they are much farther down the road. I would like to have them not only for pets but for their fiber. (I do love my knitting, and homespun alpaca is dreamy). Again, just a thought and something that I’ll be praying about and researching.

So that’s it all in a nutshell. We’re really just letting God lead us and following Him. Stay tuned for more updates as they happen! Life With The Supernauts is having an extreme makeover!