FREEDOM - sorta!

Freedom from two mortgages!

We still have one. The one on the farm, and that's just fine with us.

Last Friday the lawyer did the closing on our old house, and the new owners are moving in. I checked yesterday and the mortgage and the home equity are both paid off, so all the checks must have cleared and now IT'S OFFICIAL - THE HOUSE IS SOLD! I talked to our lawyer yesterday and he has a check for us for the equity after all the bills were paid - his fees, realators commissions, etc. it's not enough, but it's OK!

Now we can really start doing some of the things we are looking forward to here on the farm.

One of the first things will be a new well, the water here is really low volume, and we fixed some problems with the pump and the volume issue is even more prevelant now, so a new well is in order. The local well driller came over and looked at our situation and he feels pretty confident that we can get good water, and lots of volume for under 2K. No promises, but he's drilled most of the wells around here and he comes highly reccomended!

Then I think I need to have my Amish buddy Freeman look at the roofs on our house and barn as we've had 50+ mph winds a couple of times this winter and I think we're going to need some new roofs. Oh well it'd be more fun to spend the money on whiskey, guns & horses, but what the hell I guess we better keep a roof over our heads!

First order of farm business right now is, it needs to warm up some more and get rid of all the snow so we can start some spring work.

A good friend of ours who is a full time horse logger is coming Sunday to look at the woods and see if we can cut enough out this year to end up with a few thousand bucks to put towards new fences and a couple of good cows to start our cow herd. We'll be looking at registered Angus, with an eye towards buying two 3in1's which is a cow with a heifer calf by her side and checked pregnant. But we have to have cash in hand before we can go looking!

That's enough for now, lots going on here, I've got to go get some work done!