Jewel Pond

This has been a wonderful place to live, but we've always known we would have to move on sometime. The owners have no intent of ever offering an option to purchase, and have made that known from the start.

We found a new place to start again, where we will be able to purchase when the time comes.

This will truly be a start from scratch. It's a lovely little farmhouse, and just 14 acres. I'm planning to make an outside gathering area in that carport. There's a front porch, too, and it's pretty nice, but it's probably going to be pretty warm in the summer with a direct southern exposure.


The majority of it is woods, but there's a couple of smallish paddocks to start off with.

Most of it is woods and very old paddocks or very young woods. There's a tiny little pond up near the northernmost side of the property. This is the one I've named Jewel Pond. Doesn't quite live up to its name yet. I'm going with the vision here!

The inside is very well kept up. The entry/living area is a real treat.

The entry - the door has lights all the way around - currently painted over and covered up from the outside (!).

And the living room. Fireplace not functional.



Next post, the guided tour.

Intermission

Well, been a while. I just haven't had the motivation to take care of this blog. It's certainly not been from a lack of events here. Too much rather, maybe - I seem to have trouble translating big events in my life to the restrictions of the blogging medium.

A rundown of intermedium events, probably topics for future posts. Ted's first trial - we won our class! It wasn't a cakewalk, either, the sheep were rather savvy to the young dogs. I do have a video, as well as a video of Patrick and Gus finishing their first trial run together.

We started tupping and it's going well. I'm looking forward to a good lambing.

Chad the 4-H lamb, bred right here, is going to be shown at the NC State Fair this coming Friday. I am excited. He's grown out very well. If my guys get the bug to do 4-H sheep it will apparently be no problem to supply them from our own stock.

Our old Ben, my first Border Collie and my right hand dog until this year, passed away from hemangiosarcoma just a couple of weeks ago. It was rather sudden though Ben's never had prime health. He was almost 13 and still quite active and overall free from typical "old age" issues. We had the opportunity to say goodbye to him with a lot of grace. We will surely miss him. I'll have a lot more later.

Finally, we are moving! I'm keeping the name Irena for our business and operation, but the new place is called Jewel Pond. I will follow with a separate post with pictures and more details.