Showing posts with label new house. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new house. Show all posts

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Green Acres


"...is the place to be. Farm living is the life for me." But sometimes I miss the shopping on Park Avenue ;) I've just got to drive farther to get to it now. We've been in our new house for 2 months now and are learning about country living. We got a dog and 2 horses, so we're on our way.


When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me! ~Henri Rousseau


God made the country, and man made the town. ~William Cowper, The Task


My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs. ~Bill Vaughan


I'm not getting up at 5 am, but I am getting up about the time the sun rises; everybody outside is up and ready to eat!

Friday, April 17, 2009

Working and Playing

"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." ~ Proverb first recorded by the Egyptian sage Ptahhotep around 2400 B.C.

We have been working and playing here in Florida while on spring break. We signed papers for a new (temporary) house and are also trying to start some preliminaries for the house we are building. Today we are going to play (the boys are fishing and the girls are going shopping).


our temporary house
model of the new house