Tuesday, July 28, 2009

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There are some things I really love about where we live. It's so easy to forget the good things when I'm constantly focused on being prepared for the next crisis.

We live on a road that originally belonged to one family. I think it is kind of a sweet thing - he was a farmer with three daughters. When each of his daughters go married he gave them a portion of the land to start their own families. In turn each of the daughters gave their children some of the land. Here and there a few of the children have left the area and opened up the road to others - but mostly, it's still family. T & I bought the first non-family house that was built on this road. We live at the far end of the road on a small plot of what used to be farmland that wasn't owned by the original family.

We are surrounded by cow pastures and rarely see much drive by except for tractors. YaYa thinks of the cows as hers and tries to feed them flowers or sticks through the fence (not much interest...). We love to watch the babies after they are born and as they grow. (Who knew a baby cow could be so darn cute??).

If you would have asked me 20 (or even 10) years ago what my ideal place to live was I would have instantly said NYC (or some other large metropolitan area). But here I am - mostly content to spend my weekends watching our dog chase rabbits in the yard and splash around in a blow up wading pool with YaYa. I miss the constant alive-ness of a city but I was and would be a completely different person in that environment.

7 comments:

Bluebird said...

Beautiful :)

How is it that you came to live in this wonderful place, as opposed to NYC? I ask because I wonder these things about myself, too. . . I don't live in a *huge* city, but it's decent-sized and has its share of culture, shopping, sporting events, etc. I've always sworn I'd never move anywhere "smaller." And really, I don't think I'd be happy in a smaller city. . . but sometimes I do wonder if I'd be happy leaving it all and moving somewhere like you've described. I guess I'm just scared because I don't know for sure :)

Mirne said...

It sounds wonderful. Very relaxing and peaceful. That's what I'm hoping for in a year or two. I've been a city girl now for the last 15 years and I'm ready to go country again. I grew in a small town in the hills in South Australia. My husband and I recently bought a nice big block of land near the beach about three/four hours drive from the nearest big city!!! Yay!!!

Ya Chun said...

sounds nice. how much land do you have? I would like to have more space - for gardening of course!

Heather said...

I think I would love living somewhere rural like that, as long as I was in shooting distance of a reasonable-sized city.

Baby cows are super cute!

Mommy (You can call me OM) said...

I would love the serenity. I actually daydreamed today about selling everything we own and just driving until we found a small coastal or mountainous town that we love. I suppose that's my escape from reality or maybe my nomadic nature.

Peace.

Mommy (You can call me OM) said...

P.S. Thank you so much for your awesome support.

Michele said...

that sounds wonderful...