The other day I bought a piece of land with the love of my young and aspiring life. It happened. I am an official landowner.
This is the start of new journey and I am not going this one alone. As I type Cassidy is reading about well drilling, telling me all about our options to getting water to our home that we will soon be building.
“Are you even listening to me?”
Yes, Cassidy, yes I am. Why wouldn’t I be?
Ah, the sweet life. Sharing life with another, I didn’t have any clue I would remotely enjoy it, and now here I am, sharing land and listening to this dude go on and on about wells.
We bought land Friday. It was a great day. Our awesome agent, Eric (whom I recommend to anybody in the Bemidji area if you are looking for a helpful, knowledgeable, agent to hook you up) met us at the title offices in Bemidji. I wore a nice outfit, Cassidy wore his usual. We arrived a half hour early out of sheer nerves and then found ourselves wandering off to target to buy toilet paper and tape. We came back and walked into the office. Cassidy, in his cool calm way, commented on some large pine-cones on display in the window and I blathered a loud and awkward response as I made my way to the bathroom.
And then we met at the conference table. We were handed papers by a very nice lady, and we signed them. I trembled, I dropped the pen, I dotted my i’s in all the wrong places, and then the nice lady took our check and told us congratulations.
It was about a ten minute or so. Then we went out for ice-cream.
We saw this turtle last week on a walk. He is a painted turtle. We saw two turtles that day. Earlier we had spotted a snapping turtle in the same area, probably only a few hours prior
We have the best ice-cream shop here in Bemidji. It is called Big River Scoop. The have so many good flavors. They are one of the reasons I am happy to continue my life here in the Bemidji area.
Now we are looking at wells, and by “we” I mean Cassidy. It is kind of unreal.
This is a wall of tees that stands at the front of our land. It is only about five foot across, but it is quite tall. It is our line of pines.
Today, after a work meeting that I have at noon, we are headed out to our place to mark some trees and think about driveways. We probably will also take a second, sit on a log, and debate the reality of one of the realist things I have ever done. Listen to the birds, check out our pines. It sounds lovely.
I am starting up this blog again. I have embarked on an adventure, and I fell that my warranted hiatus is now ready to be lifted. I have grown a lot since the days when I started this blog. I am still as self-assured as ever, but with a bit more wisdom. I am sure there will be more to come in the coming months and I am happy to share J
Check it out, this is ours:
Little Wing 
Congratulations, Sweetie!
And it isn’t in the swamps of McGregor!
Your very own Gray
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It is located in the remains of glacial deposits, making it they highlands of the headwaters. Which sounds much more sophisticated than the swamps 🙂
I can’t wait for you to come see it Gray!
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so over the moon happy for you dear one!
xo , marilyn and chuck somewhere
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Thank you so much!
Sending love.
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Hi Diamond!
It is really good to hear from you again, and especially because the news is so good! Congratulations on the guy and the land! We will be coming to Minnesota at the end of September, would you like a couple of visitors? Hope to see you then, Jana
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Yes we would! Email me dates and I will make some plans 🙂
The guy and the land are both pretty good news, I agree. Thank you for the well wishes! I hope that you had a blast in Portland.
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So good to hear from you again and especially good that things are so good! Congrats on the land. Did the same about 1980; cut some trails used it as a recreation/trail building/snowshoeing place. #+ years ago we started our house project ( be aware it can become all consuming) now happy to say we are almost done with our 3+ year house building project. Lots of wildlife, some days too much ; like deer that like apple trees and blueberry plants. Some day our paths will cross.
Enjoyed your cycle journey hoping to work out a ride to somewhere this summer/fall. Still riding?
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I am super excited for all that nature, it is my favorite. I saw deer paths, and there are blueberries, so the story may be similar.
The battery on my bike is dead, and I have been lax in changing that fact. I will be riding, maybe even planning more trips, but that maybe a little later down the road. Building will take up much of that time 🙂
Where are you thinking of riding?? I love the adventure stories!
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