We can also try to second guess someone else (anticipate or
predict what they are going to do), sort of like gambling. Joe and I have been trying to
predict (second guess) the "come-backs" from the seller of the TN home
and from the buyers of our farm. In each case, we want to get the best deal possible, yet we want it to be a fair deal for both of us. How much give and take is there with both parties? At
what point will either our seller or our buyer be "frightened off" and say "no deal"? 
Our Sunday drive home from TN went quickly and smoothly. The cows and horses
were low on water so we took care of that even before unpacking the
car. I don't know how driving (or riding in the car) can be so tiring,
but it left us both feeling unmotivated. I did start removing bedding
from the horse stalls, spreading it in the dusty paddock. 
At one point, while working outside, I noticed Roni flat out in the paddock. I went over to see if something was wrong.
He slowly got up and walked over to join the other horses. I guess he was just resting in the sun. After sundown, I took Kaysha for a walk.
Labor Day Monday, with Joe off work, gave him the opportunity to help
with stall cleaning. We put the rest of the lime in the low spots and would soon fill with new wood
shavings after the stalls air dried. We are both hoping this is the last trailer load to buy, haul
home and move into stalls. Joe also mowed before he left for his Football
Draft and Poker party. I lost steam, as the day was steaming up, and
came in to eat lunch. I had no computer at my disposal, so watched TV.
Then I decided, rather than watch others "living life," I needed to go
do it myself... so I loaded Roni and went to Moraine View.
I was the only trailer/person/horse in the park. There was a lot of gun shots off in the distance, which made me have second thoughts. As I was climbing into the saddle, this cowboy rode into camp. He said the hunters were after dove in the fields and to stay in the woods. (The only 'Dove' I hunt is filled with chocolate.) I followed the cowboy for the first ten minutes until he turned off the main trail. This photo is out of focus, but I still like it enough to post it. 
Roni was a little nervous at times, but over all did a great job out on the trail. I rode the long loop around the lake. Because sunlight was waning (or does that just happen with the moon?), I kind of pushed it, and had (let) Roni gait a lot.
This is an out of focus photo of a flock of wild turkey passing through the woods. Roni just stood and watched along with me. There had to have been at least 20 juvenile birds and several hens, taking a few minutes to pass by. They moved quite silently... it was neat to see. By the time we
got home, it was getting dark, which
it does earlier and
earlier these days.I didn't go to Water Lilies Tuesday because I didn't want to drive the Expedition with the spare tire on and pulling the trailer. After a second cup of tea, I went out to water plants and take care of weekly chores. (A pretty butterfly visits our deck fountain.) Then, before it warmed up, I rode Amiga. She is a little sweetie. She did very well for me and we worked through the issues we were having.
After lunch, I got news from Joe
that the Tennessee sellers accepted
our low offer. I couldn't believe it. Here is 106 Flossmoor, our soon to be new home. This link to the listing may soon be removed. The sellers even agreed to replace the
large double pained picture window that had lost its seal. Next on my
mind was the need to come to an agreement with our buyers, if possible.
Brian came to cut hay while I was out trimming trees, in the front
pasture. We still need to finish sprucing up a lot of things and to
keep this place ship shape.
The prairie willow branches were hitting the electro-brad fence, but seen below, now they aren't.
Joe came out to help pick up branches and then started mowing fence lines.
I finished trimming the row of white pine on the front pasture. Below, the grass hay is cut and drying.
I woke up Tuesday night or Wed. morning at 2am, with lots on my mind. I couldn't get back to sleep, so got up and went outside to open the gate for the horses to go out on the back pasture.
I have been
increasing their pasture time since the "pickin's" are so slim. They
were all lying on the ground by the river birch, sleeping. I made notes
of things I was thinking and then messed around on Joe's computer.
After two additional hours of sleep, I was back up in time for Water
Lilies.
Mid morning Joe called to tell me we came to an agreement with our
buyers, contingent on the sale of their house, their getting financing,
the assessment of this place, and the
inspection. We have a closing date of November 30th, if all goes well.
I couldn't believe how this was all working out... but it ain't over until
the closings.
I spent a good part of the day working outside on weeding and tree
trimming. It was good (hot) hay drying weather. Once Joe got home with
my newly fixed computer, I set to work on downloading photos onto last
weeks blog so I could get it posted.
When Courtney came over to work Zorro, I went out to join her. We rode around the pasture together, I on Amiga, until we ran out of day light.
The peach tree by the chicken coop is over loaded with peaches.
I almost got a full, regular night of sleep, arising Thursday feeling
pretty good. I needed to get the place ready for 10:00 house shoppers,
so was picking up, doing light dusting, washing some mirrors and spot
checking windows. The family was here for 90 minutes looking around.
The lady was quite the chatterer and animal lover, so spent a lot of
time visiting with me and the critters. But she really loved the
place. Brian was next to drop in to check the hay, deciding it was
ready to bale, so he came back a little later to rake it.
We got bad news from our buyers, that our house is in fact not in the Tri-Valley School district. This was one of their main reasons for buying. It had also helped sell us on this location, so we double checked the realtor listing from when we bought, and it did say Tri-Valley. Well... our buyers were going to see if they could get it annexed into the TV school district. But, they put everything on hold for the time being. I just keep praying about all of this.
One of the Water Lilies (Rae) and her husband drove up the drive, wanting to get information on our house for a friend of theirs. It was in good showing condition so I invited them on in. They too, like all who come look, were quite impressed. I sent them home with fresh peaches (above) and pears (left), like I had the earlier house shoppers. 
Brain came and started baling hay.
I continued working on tree trimming, and...
finished with all the white pine along the drive while Brian finished baling. I am not sure if I like it more opened up or not... there I go second guessing myself again.
The
cows and horses had damaged so many of the lower branches, that the
trees now look a lot better. 
It is nice to be able to see out at the pasture, but also makes it more open to the view of Hghway 150 and allows motorists to see our house better. Is this good or not?
Dan came out to help with gathering and storing hay and joined us
for dinner when all the work was done. His car will take two weeks to
be repaired so he has been borrowing my car. My computer was still
warning me of a virus, so I had Joe and Dan look at it and work on it. 
Brother was "exploring" the rack of hay Angie had bought. I wondered if some mice had been baled into it.Before bed, we got news from our buyers that they had talked to both superintendents (Tri-Valley & LeRoy) and decided they preferred Leroy Schools after all. They said they were happy (and excited) to move forward with everything including the bank appraisal and their attorney's review of the purchase agreement. It never ceases to amaze me how God works things out. Below are Carol's 20 bales of hay to be delivered later.
I awoke too early again and was sitting at my computer at 2:45am. But,
to my dismay, it was dead again, wouldn't even turn on. So I moved over
to Joe's computer to work on this post. I couldn't get to any of my
photos but I also couldn't get into Facebook, so I was disgruntled as I
worked. 
Once Joe got up, he fixed my computer. After I took an hour nap, I went to Water Lilies, hoping it would revive me. Well, I was in a fog most of the day. When Joe got home from work at 1pm, I was taking another nap. :-/
It wasn't long and we headed into town to meet with the banker to get our loan. All looked good to go, however, there was not much cash left to start repairs on the new place until we close on this house.
We took a lawn mower in to get it repaired and also up graded my phone. I now have an i-phone with several applications as part of my up-grade. I took the above photo of Joe, who was patiently waiting for me to figure everything out, while at the store. I plan to ditch my other camera.
We got home in time for an early dinner. I put the horses out on the front pasture first while Joe took care of the cows. The equine were thrilled to have all the space and greener grass than they have been getting. They went right for the lush parts, between the trees and fence, where it did not get mowed. Eventually they started exploring more of the pasture. I was too tired to finish this or do much of anything else, so went to bed before 9:00.
No comments:
Post a Comment