I’m still living in Amesbury Massachusetts and “visit” the farm as often as I can. I’ll keep this post short - mostly because I am trying to get this site up and running the way I want so I can focus on the real work of selling my house and getting the barn and residence [...]

My house is on the market and as we have all heard, the market is generally not good. Some places in the US are doing alright and others are seriously hurting. I’d say my area is pretty much in the middle - slow but not desperate.
My realtor has not had much activity for my listing [...]

I took a couple of days off to get some work done on the farm. The progress is slow but that’s attributed to the housing market more than anything else.
This trip had just one goal - to lay the boundary of the building site. Everything is a mater of scale on the farm and [...]

The source for my post’s title is a book by Sarah Susanka. I am in the midst of designing a new home. At the same time, I am watching all of these “dream homes”, “home improvements”, “this old house”, “rezoned”, etc. shows of TV. The TV shows keep showing bigger and bigger homes - [...]

I had my house on the market for about 75 days. The realtor I had just was not working out so when our agreement expired I let the house come off the market for a short while.
I signed on with another Realtor - one who is well known in my neighborhood and has a [...]

It’s 5:30 *AM* and I’ve already been up for half an hour …
.. the move .. packing .. stressing if it will actually all fit in the truck and trailer .. the heat (which fortunately broke last night) .. Zen’s unrest because she knows something is up .. the ’should it stay or should it [...]