Everything Old is New Again (except us...we're just older)

Okay....I started this blog a little over eight years ago when my husband and I were planning to build a cordwood home on our beautiful piece of property.  We were just getting started when things in life took a different turn for us, and we found ourselves on the verge of being empty-nesters. So we renovated the basement of our sign shop into an urban apartment and moved into the heart of downtown.  As you do, right?

So that was an awesome adventure for awhile. THEN...we both got outside jobs to help support the sign shop, decided we LIKED not being the bosses and sold the sign shop.  And we bought a four-wheeler.  As you do...

Suddenly, two years ago we realized most of our friends and interests were now back in the country, and the whole reason we'd moved downtown was gone. We're great at planning like that.

We decided it was time to get back out where we belong.  First, we were going to plunk a manufactured home onto that pretty piece of property we have - afterall, we just got finished with one huge construction project, we didn't really want to leap into another.

Then we thought maybe we should see what other properties were for sale in the area that might come with all the utilties in place and save us the hassle.

We actually did find a few we would have liked very much, but unless our buildings downtown sold, we couldn't do a damn thing about them.

Instead, we sat around torturing ourselves by watching Fixer Upper and Grand Designs on tv. During one especially cool episde of Grand Designs, wherein a couple built their creative adobe dream home...Scott said it was too bad we never built that cordwood house we wanted, and I said I wasn't necessarily opposed to considering that again...

And he lit up like a Christmas Tree.

Which means, we have come full circle....same pretty piece of property, same cordwood dream.

AND?  We still have all the bottles we collected eight years ago!