I say that tongue in cheek as we definitely are blessed with this mobile home - it is just "squished in here" with all that we have going on in our lives. We are do-it-yourselfers and have lots of projects going all the time, they boys and Carpenter are all into archery and that means equipment and equipment takes space! We run 5 home businesses from here and that definitely takes space! But again the lessons in patience just keep coming. The weather of snow like we have never had in these parts for a long many years and lots of rain have basically destroyed our winding driveway up to the new house. It is slushy, muddy, deep with ruts and very nasty to be blunt! It would take many 1000's of $$$ to make it nice and even many more 1000's$ to pave it....I am not asking for paving...I would just love it to be driveable. It really is one of the main hinderances keeping us from actually moving up there right now!
Once again, the Lord has cared for us and provided us huge mountains of large rubble from broken brick and blocks only 3 miles from us and with the owner who is head of the demolition of the old mill wanting to just find anywhere to dump this rubble - we are jumping up and down saying, "ME FIRST!" -- after about 3-4 weeks of no phone calls being returned and not being able to reach the owner - we have the word from him that he will deliver and dump up to 50 rounds (20 tons per round) for us on our acres so we can put a good firm base on the driveway for literally pennies of what it would cost to buy large stones to give us a firm base! Then son # 1 who is a skilled grader and can work some heavy equipment will come put a nice covering to that base and fix us all up. I'm just waiting for the day.....snow is on the way again and more rain last nite...so I continue to wait....and I'll be posting just as soon as it comes to pass! We have such a beautiful driveway (if I can say primitive too) when it is in "good shape". We have suddenly had the enlightenment that it must be the reason nearly every household sits right on the main roads -- who wants to go thru the expense of maintaining a mile long driveway? I guess for us - we are so set on having our house in the middle of the wild acres that we are willing to take the bumps that go along with a mile-long drive! (9/10ths to be exact!)
Our long driveway when it was in better shape!
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