Journey To Simplify-Part Eight

Unfortunately, we found out that the owner of this farm didn't want to sell after all. (We weren't the first that he had told this. The previous tenants had done outside work on the place thinking that they were buying it and we met several others that had had dishonest dealings with the man.) We knew that Jack's job would be ending soon so we thought it a good idea to try to find other land that we could buy with his severance. We began looking around the state and just weren't having any luck. We had the idea to ask Jack's dad if we could buy a piece of his farm and he said yes. It was a relief that we wouldn't have to move to a new area. We had so many wonderful times at that place and really wanted it to be home, but we felt good that we were moving close by and would be able to help take care of Jack's dad who had emphysema.
After totally renovating the old farm house that we lived in, I had thought to myself that I never wanted to do it again. Well.... Jack's dad said we could have the part of the farm with the original farm house on it, and it would save us a lot of money to fix it up instead of building a new one. We thought that made good sense and dove in. Yep. Here we go again......
Nancy