by Been a thought floating around in my head for probably the last few years if I was being honest about it. Life happens and I never go out and find the time to do it – until today.
So rather than trying to catch up whatever has happened between our last post and today I’ll just ramble on and add whatever comes to mind!!
We have lived here at Poverty Acres for coming on six years. In fact, six years ago we had just moved into the shop – Cooper was in school and Chloe was working full time. In the blink of an eye we have no kids in school and we are in the early plans of downsizing and selling Poverty Acres. BUT not for a few more years – we have promised Cooper that he can live for a few years paying cheap rent. We’ve had people as us WHY SELL?? Well the short answer is we are ready to start an adventure of just Clark & I – no responsibility of mortgages, utilities, property taxes or high stress jobs. Clark is ready to step away from the oilfield and try different things – I’m just ready to enjoy life together. We’ve given up a lot having been employed by the oilfield – its a wonderful way to make a real good income but it takes away from life. In our almost 20 years together we have not attached to any of our homes – we both looked at them as investments. Walking away from Poverty Acres will be bittersweet only in the fact that its the last home we will have had that we raised our kids in. But honestly we don’t enjoy it – like enjoy it as most people would. We have had six summers and never once sat at the fire pit – Cooper has – LOTS – with all his friends which is awesome! We are just the maintenance people – and let me tell you there is a lot of maintenance to having an acreage. So between now and when we drive away for the last time we are going to continue to putter and finish up the landscaping. We will enjoy, to the best of our ability, our time here.