Tales from the Shark Tank

We got a house! It’s an old farmhouse on a working farm. The owner’s brother still farms it, so there’s corn on one side, soybeans on the other, and a nature preserve across the road. They’re installing A/C for us this coming Wednesday. Moving date will be determined between us and the owners based on when they can get the barn closed off to keep a certain small boy from getting in and getting hurt. The house is on a full acre, with lots of trees and room for a small boy to play. There are 2 bedrooms downstairs, with a huge livingroom, decent diningroom and quite a nice kitchen. Upstairs (up the proverbial winding stair), is what could be a third bedroom and will for us be a workroom for me and a playspace for our son. We’ll put a futon up there as well, so that we’ll have guest space.

There are no neighbors nearby, so getting our son kids to play with will require arranging play dates. That should be doable, though, and there’s plenty outside to enchant him anyway. And me. I already have garden plans, which I’m sure comes as a shock to no one who knows me.

The owner is a fabulous woman, who grew up in the community and has been teaching there for 26 years. End result? I have all kinds of information on who to talk to and what to tell them to get our son what he needs. She has plans for me to guest-teach on various subjects as she gets to them in her history class. Medieval social structure, early 20th c. immigration and the development of the American legal system are some of them. She lives within walking distance – well the whole town is in walking distance, and so small it literally isn’t on the map. Closest town that is (a mile away) is Hebron, Indiana. Not only have I found a house, I’m going to have a friend when I get there. If I’ve got to move, I can’t think of a better way to start.

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