The Home Depot Delivers!

Robert made his list and checked it twice and then ordered our supplies for the cottage.  The Home Depot delivers out to Graham, TX.  (notice the, 'THE' - Audrey always points out it's not Home Depot, but The Home Depot)  It looks like the next two months weekends are full of building fun.

On a sad note, our last chicken/laying hen was a casualty to what we think was a bobcat.  Poor Jillian was traumatized by seeing her partner taken away.  She spent last night roosting on Robert's rain boots on the porch next to Sonny.  Although Robert doesn't like to humanize animals, he did notice that Sonny the morning of the incident went over to Jillian and sort of hollowed and comforted her.  One of my favorite noises in the morning are Jillian crowing and Sonny hollowing along with her. (reminder, Jillian is really a rooster)

Robert built us a fire pit out of rocks he rounded up from the back woods.  We spent a day clearing the treed area next to the area we'll be building our cottage.

Little Brown Betty has wandered into our neighbor's field of BULLS.  His herd is all registered rodeo bulls.  She loves walking with the big boys.  We're not too concerned, because she's still under a year.  Robert's found some of the weak spots in the fence and is fixing it, she's still small and seems to squeeze through areas those big boys can't squeeze back to our field.  We check on her daily, and hear her boyfriends moo and bull's mooing sounds like one might be in Jurassic park.

Weatherford to 72 Acres in Graham, Texas

As some of you know, we moved out to Weatherford, Texas, 28 miles west of Fort Worth.  We were excited about finding our house on Hidden Creek Loop three years ago.  We had thought we'd found the perfect spot to raise our family and be surrounded by country life, too.  However as some of you followed our FB life, we quickly started to outgrow our one acre and our hobbies started to point us in the direction of bigger country living.  We loved the idea of having our own laying hens and that adventure lead us to getting some goats and then onto our calf, Betty.

Robert had been searching for a larger property, a place he could hunt and enjoy more nature.  He came across some interesting places further west in a town called Graham.  Graham is 90 miles west of Fort Worth.  We knew as we often know right away the moment we wandered around the Graham property it was a place we'd been looking for.  Although at that time we didn't imagine wanting to live on it full time and not just live on it, but start doing this before building a house and the adventure begins.

We moved our travel trailer out here at the beginning of the summer.  Although we hadn't discussed the idea of actually living out here full time, it only took a few times to realize we no longer wanted to live in our house in Weatherford.  This made us start to dream up all sorts of creative ideas on how to live life in Graham.

The move to live out in Graham started with registering the children for school out in Graham this fall.  We are living in our travel trailer full time.  I laugh as I post this, because we have a perfectly lovely house in Weatherford and it sits empty (full of our stuff).  Selling that house is another story and of course if anyone knows someone who'd like to buy it, please pass on our information.

Our newest 'idea' is designing and building a cottage to live in before the winter.  This is where Robert's engineering and talents will kick into action.  We're hoping to build this cottage ourselves from start to finish.

It amazes me that the people we were created to be and continue to become have lead us to our 72 acres in Graham.  The joy of living out in the country, the simplicity of living and learning how happy we can be.  I'm blogging the journey we've started here in Graham.