I was cruising around our local Craig’s List as I am oft to do and I stumbled on a lady selling eggs that was about a block away from me! Wow! How cool… and we needed eggs, so I emailed her and Maggie and I that afternoon went out to meet her.

Francine and her hubby Wes live on a couple acres in a neat little homestead that they are working on! Some folks might think, wow, a lot of projects going on, but Maggie and I were in heaven! We TOTALLY get it… they have chickens and gardens and little baby fruit trees and a home business and equipment waiting to be used and an older house that is being rehabbed! They showed us their beautiful new roof that they put on and talked of new gutters and siding all in time. We got to talk about the chickens and a couple roosters that might be ending up in the stew pot sooner than later. And we talked about baby fruit trees and how they had lived in a mobile home for many years until they got their homestead! Oh my! How neat.

I love meeting people with like minds and thoughts. It lets me know that it can be done, is being done and it’s not that silly to think this would be an awesome way to live. Made me start to think about seriously getting our own dreams into high gear. I saw a fellow selling 10 acres of half wood, half farm land for $30 grand. Maybe a bit more than we want, but heck, new cars cost more! Granted, there was not house, but there were old outbuildings that could be rehabbed and if I could bring my beloved Moby and hook her up, that would solve that issue.

3-5 acres would be fabulous. Some woods, some flat land… gardens, chickens, maybe a goat or two, a gentle sheep. Some good old dogs. Working at home, living simple. It’s my calling, it’s my dream… someday.

And I got to thinking, I have to stop thinking it’s a someday, or a dream. If I want it to happen, I have to make it happen. We have to work towards it. Hard. When you want something so badly, it can happen if you start to really work towards it. It’s time for us. It’s time to start learning which cities and counties allow mobies on rough land. How much does it really cost to get electric, and sewer or whatever. Start looking at properties. Start looking into saving like old Scottswomen and making it happen. I started my first emergency fund in like forever years. And it’s going to be fed FIRST every bit of money that comes in. We have to start learning as much as we can from books and magazines and friends and the internet. Keep learning on our gardens and cooking simple and canning and preserving.

Other people do it. We can too.

I’m sure that God puts good people in your pathway to show you that your dreams can be reality. They are there as guideposts along the journey, a sign that you’re on the right road. You can learn from theses folks, even if it’s just to say, wow, they’re doing just what we want to do.

$30 grand sounds like a fortune. Yet people get into new cars all the time and they are just that much. $25-$30 grand is not that out of whack for a new car!!! I can’t imagine that for 15-20 grand you can get a piece of land, maybe 4 or 5 acres and LIVE ON IT… and call it your own and develop it for your children and your grandchildren.

I have lived all over the country. North and South, East and West. I moved here to northwestern Ohio once and thought it was not for me and moved away. Two years later, I came back. I had found my final resting place. I am an Ohioian now. My life is here. My close friends are here, my kids have been raised here. It suits me. I like the seasons, the winters are not too harsh, but still let you know it’s winter. Not much in the way of tornados or other natural disasters. Really decent people, honest and hardworking. It’s a big town with a small town feeling. The music is good.

So I think over the next couple weeks we’re going to be seriously working on our plans and goals for our Moby Homestead. Instead of SOMEDAY… hopefully it will be in 2 years. Or 4 years. Someday just never seems to come if you don’t put serious effort and action into getting there!

And it starts with local fresh eggs and nice folks to point the way!