It's home now.

In 2012 Ritchie Brothers Auctioneers sold all of the farm equipment in one massive auction, Bernie and his brother rented their farm land to a neighbor and he and I put our place near Odessa up for sale. 

 
 



Bernie and I packed up everything we owned, tucked it away in storage and moved up to our 120 acres between Nipawin and Tobin Lake, Saskatchewan.  We are now calling Nipawin our home.

Wolf tracks!

 

 

We stayed in our little shack cabin or as Bernie calls it "the Grainery" as long as we could last year but once it became -20 and the snow was almost a foot deep we turned out noses south and headed to our place in Brownsville.  The winter here in Saskatchewan was one of the worst for amounts of snow and storms so we stayed south for a little longer than normal but arrived back in the middle of April. 

There was still a lot of snow on the ground but we timed it just right and the weather turned warm just as we got back.

















 Finally!  I have been talking about it and dreaming about building for 3 years now and it's almost surreal to think that it's finally going to become a reality.  We have started building our dream home.

We will live in the grainery while the house is being built and I know that it will be a challenge.  This place lacks many of the "luxuries" that most of you would call normal.  Thing like a bathroom, hot water, and a stove.  Im making due though.  We have a well and I have that cold water connected to the house.  I can boil water in the kettle to wash dishes.  There is an out house close by and a little farther away in our shop we built an actual bathroom and laundry room.  The wood stove heats this place and does a great job.  I have a barbeque, a smoker, an electric frying pan and a crock pot so plan to manage without the oven and stove. 

I have even figured out how to bake bread on the barbeque!  I will show you how I do it in a future post. 

Today the footings for the house were pored.  Our dream is becoming a dream come true but there is a long way to go yet!