Good to hear from you guys....

Tomi....I'm still just a phone call away.....will be back on July 13 to get all packed......will try to get a chance to stop by before I make the final move.

Pat...you can bring your John Deere over...can use all the help I can get to spread the gravel. That is the one thing I have found here. Everone is willing to help & they don't just say it....they DO it. I know you are a bit far to drive your John Deere here in reality.

I will be looking for a real tractor next year.....this year, my new little Troy-bilt (pony) lawn tractor will have to do. I needed to buy something inexpensive to get the grass cut. My farm was starting to look ragged & I couldn't leave for California with it looking like that. After all the mowing yesterday, it not looks like a park. Go figure, my first pony on my farm is a bright red lawn tractor. I had to laugh however. I was putting along in the low gear (have to go slow with the mulcher). I hit the end of a row as far away from the house as I could get & my pony ran out of gas. I had to walk all the way back to the garage to get the gas can.

Stupid me....I forgot to put on the insect repellant before mowing. I didn't get the 100's of chiggar bites I got when I first got here, but a got quite a # of bites.

I have one of my white eskies with me. I love this dog friendly area too. He goes everywhere I go (except into restaurants). He is definitely a good guard doggie, but he goes a bit far. When we first got here, he wouldn't let anyone near....now he is opening up & actually going up to people & sniffing until they try to pet him. He is getting much better. I told him if he was going to make it here in Kentucky....he would have to change his attitude from his California attitude. He is afraid to go outside at night to do his potty walk. He goes out as far as the porch light then constantly looks back at me & most of the time, he won't even go out if I don't come out with him. I can't wait until I get the rest of my babies with me.....& my horses.

I never realized what true happiness could be or that I could be the one that has it. I never imagined in my life that this small historical town that I looked at in the history books would ever be the place I call home for the rest of my life.