It's February 25th, 2011. In the middle of winter break, already a week of vacation for my daughter Katie, I've declared a "snow day". This day had a full schedule when it began, but after clearing out the driveway, which was just as quickly filling up, driving down the road and stopping three times, before I'd gone a mile to clear the windshield wiper blades of swiftly forming ice, I decided that wisdom was saying, "go home"!
So, it's like being given an unexpected gift, wrapped in white, and chilled. The wind is at times intensely whirling, like a white tornado. It's so bad, both dogs are in the house, and these guys, are NOT inside dogs, (but they are really being very good.)
We are obviously still at the farm. It's not been rented yet. The longer I'm here, occupying, the more I hope for a different sort of solution. Many people have been interested in renting it, but.....for one reason or another, it still isn't.
I am asking for opinions, and perhaps one of you, or more, will be part of the solution. If we didn't have a mortgage on this place, that was still of a good size, we'd simply keep it and have it tended to, and then lend it out for others to use. It is way better than it looks, way sweeter and it is the sort of place that any family, couple, group of friends, etc. would love. I think if there was enough interest in having it as a furnished retreat, monthly, weekly vacation rental, that would be the ideal way of having it enjoyed and utilized to the full. I'm going to advertise and see if a local farmer wants to lease the fields for the next growing season, hoping for one that is interested in organic useage. I'd like it to become good grass pasture, and hay growing.
Please, post ideas and help me with prayers, wisdom, and possibly, some of you may want to rent it for holidays, retreats etc. If there is enough interest, the tide will turn in this direction.
THANK YOU ALL:)
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