Getting a Feel Of Home
We moved back to Kentucky at the beginning of September of 2022, and have since been coinhabiting with my folks in Richmond. What was supposed to be a one to two-month stint, has turned into months, with more time to go. It has just made sense for us for the time being as we go into our off-grid build. It is a place our three cats, now two pups (we miss you Homer!!), and us three humans can be together. Funny, our rooster, is at Taylor’s mom in Indiana. So, although not ideal situations, they have become quite a time and money saver as we tackle this off-grid adventure.
However, we look forward to our whole little family living together again, in our own home. We have camped on the property to feel it out, sleep on the grounds we will soon call home, navigate the solar position, as it will be a key component for our home that is being designed to seasonably integrate natural resources into cooling, heating, lighting our home. During most of our visits we have caught the beautiful sunsets and watched the robin-filled sky descending upon the trees on our property. As we set up camp, the robins were less than pleased with us disturbing their slumber. We apologized and proceeded to enjoy our first night on our property. On our first time camping there, we were welcomed to the new day with a splendid sunrise, and a sense of the new life to come.
Woodland Wetland Wonderland
One of the many things we noticed about the property is that it is home to so many living things. While walking and exploring the woodland area of our property, there were many sightings of white flashes of bunny tails zipping by, racoon paw prints on the ground, a little garter snake soaking a bit of the sun on our path, piles of feathers and bird parts strewn about where something had had them for dinner, deer entering the property at dusk, thousands of migrating robins flying in to rest for the night, and not to mention the abundance of Eastern Red Cedars, Sycamores, Bradford Pears (know these are invasive), Mulberry trees, too many blackberry brambles (which we absolutely hate as they have caused much bleeding and cursing…. So, we have been drinking a lot of blackberry wine in our attempt to connect with a redeeming factor 🤷🏽♀️🍷), and so many other plants and trees. At the wetland we have seen large crayfish, more racoon paw prints in the mud, lots of grasses, a whole lot of mud, and along the creek and along a little spring on our property, many Black Walnuts.
In essence, we are thrilled to call this place our new home, and so we are aiming to building on the property in a way that we make the least amount of negative impact to the land, its inhabitants and seasonal visitors. With every visit to the property, with every camping adventure on it, we connect more and more to it. We look forward to going from cohabitating with my parents to our little family together again, but this time cohabitating with a larger woodland and wetland ecosystem we can call our extended family. 💗💓
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