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We Are Doing This Thing!

   The last couple of months have been surreal.  If you know us personally, you know we have been talking about and planning for this move for years. Like, literally YEARS!   We are leaving our home and property in Buies Creek (Go Camels!) in central North Carolina for our homestead property in North East, North Carolina. For the gardeners of the group, that's zone 7b to 8a...not a difficult transition as far as gardening goes. Our new property is a 10 acre plot that has been logged but is overgrown.  We are currently working hard to clear areas for shelters and pastures.  Let me start from where we are right now.  In early August, our two youngest children and I (Jill) left Buies Creek for the coast so that I could get ready to start a new teaching job later that month. I'm teaching 4th grade again and really enjoying my new roll and new school. Shawn and the older two boys stayed behind to do extensive renovations on our little Buies Creek home....