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A Farm of My Own:  Farm Stalking  |
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TElliott
Farmgirl in Training
14 Posts
Terisa
Lebanon
Oregon
USA
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 Posted - May 02 2007 : 10:15:29 PM
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I feel like a stalker, but I'm in love with some land. I have visited this land several times over the last week or so, and just felt there is something about it - I'm always hoping the owners don't drive up and wonder what the heck I'm doing standing there haha! And my dream farm would fit right on it too! A huge garden, an archery range, a chicken coop, and room for my kiddo's to roam free with their dog.
My mother's neighbors sold their place; the buysers devided it up into parcels and are reselling them. (I think I mentioned in another post how discusted I was by that) Be that as it may! I took my kiddos on a walk up the gravel road to the neighbor's now empty old homestead, as the home that was there has been cleared away.
The little gravel road goes right up a line of emerald green grass to a big ole' cherry tree on the righthand side, with the home's space on your left - the driveway is a drive-around, so it circles around and meets the gravel road again. We walked up the driveway and stood where the house used to be and girls... it takes your breath away. It's all shaddowed with the shade of 6 giants - ancient douglas fir trees towering high overhead. And just beyond them the ground drops off steeply about 15 feet straight down a bank covered in crisp green fern to the Calapooia river. It's a small river you can wade across but it's still swift at this time of year. All around there is land green with life and just begging to be planted! If you turn your back to the fir trees you look out over the 3.5 acres (the middle of which really needs a little orchard on it, I think :) )to the gravel road and on the other side of that is an endless view of the Cascade mountains. A farm in the foothills - my newly forming farm girls at heart group is already deemed "Foothill Farmgils", so it's a perfect place.
I have no idea if the owners are selling it as it is, or if they will build and then sell. If they sell it as is, I may be able to scrape up enough to buy that baby, but if they build on it all will be lost. I'm taking a picture of it and keeping it on my fridge so that I see it and think of it. The power of positive though is unmeasureable! I believe that if it's not meant to be, it's because there is something even better out there but oooooh... I want that land! Light a candle for us! |
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Aunt George
True Blue Farmgirl
1476 Posts
Georgann
Midlothian
VA
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Posted - May 03 2007 : 02:06:56 AM
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Oooo Terisa, the way you describe this parcel just set my heart to twitter too. I shall light a candle for you for your land and for your children to live and become part of this land. You are right if it is meant to be, then it is meant to be. It sounds wonderful and something is drawing you there for a reason.
G
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Huckelberrywine
True Blue Farmgirl
1607 Posts
Michelle
Rosalia
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Posted - May 03 2007 : 07:00:52 AM
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Terisa, I hope it all comes into place for you. It clicked for us this year, and for a spot my DH has loved since he was a child. Keep positive. Hope it doesn't take as long for you :)
We make a difference. |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - May 03 2007 : 12:23:25 PM
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It sounds like a beautiful area! I really hope it works out for you. Do you know who the owners are? Maybe you could call them and make an offer or at least ask what their plans are for the land.
Alee
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Kathie
True Blue Farmgirl
2436 Posts
Kathie
Thonotosassa
Florida
USA
2436 Posts |
Posted - May 03 2007 : 12:36:19 PM
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What a beautiful picture you gave..
I could see it all..
This has to be right.. As clear as you made it for all of us to see!!
Everything possitive is sending your way Sweetie!!
Kathie
In a World Where you Can Be Anything, Be Yourself.. |
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TElliott
Farmgirl in Training
14 Posts
Terisa
Lebanon
Oregon
USA
14 Posts |
Posted - May 03 2007 : 7:55:48 PM
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Thanks so much for the well-wishes, I appreciate it more than you know. My mother is making attempts to contact the owners to ask about prospective selling. I'm pretty close to my mom - she's a Foothills Farmgirl too! - and what mom wouldn't love to have her daughter live right up the road? It's quiet a drive up there for us from where we live now, and they always need extra hands to help with their small orchard. We love the work, and they love having us. We're more mouths to feed but you know the saying, every mouth comes with two hands. We'll just keep our fingers crossed and leave it to destiny!
Terisa~ |
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highlandgirl
Farmgirl in Training
16 Posts
Cheryl
Colfax,
WA
USA
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Posted - May 04 2007 : 9:05:56 PM
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Terisa,
Keep up the good thoughts. Trying to contact the current owners is a good move. We were able to buy some land recently because we contacted the owners two years ago and developed a relationship. When they were ready to sell, they contacted us and the rest is history. My best wishes. Your description draws such a beautiful picture.
Cheryl |
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts |
Posted - May 06 2007 : 5:02:32 PM
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Terisa,
Am keeping you in my thoughts and sending best wishes and good vibes with tons of hope your way!!! I do so hope it works out!!! And please continue to keep us posted!!
Hugz!
Talitha
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
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Tracey
True Blue Farmgirl
766 Posts
Tracey
State of Confusion
USA
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Lavender Cottage
True Blue Farmgirl
273 Posts
Ellen
USA
273 Posts |
Posted - May 11 2007 : 11:02:29 AM
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The farm stalking had me laughing too-yeah-I've done that too. I do hope you get it-it sounds perfect. All the best!
Ellen |
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fiddlers wife
True Blue Farmgirl
248 Posts
ginny
pacific
mo
USA
248 Posts |
Posted - Apr 20 2008 : 07:11:23 AM
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I admit it. I'm a farm stalker, too.
I had my eye on a place for years. It's a 2 story stone farmhouse. Abandoned, overgrown but still had appeal. I used to drive by all the time and wonder... Then I finally got up the nerve to pull over and have a look. I stood in the front yard and imagined it cleaned up, new shutters, porch railing, flower beds. Oh, it was lovely in my mind!The I walked around to the back, only to discover that the entire backside was missing! I've since spoken to neighbrs who said that someone bought it with the intention of adding on to the back. They didn't know what they were doing and went crazy with a bobcat, and part of it collapsed. Sad. :0( It had the deep windowsills, hand hewn beams - a diamond in the rough. I still like to drive by and imagine what it would be like if it were fixed up, but it would take a major feat of engineering to do it.
Ah, well, maybe when I win the lottery.
"She didn't get it from a gypsy..."
www.ginnymae.etsy.com
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marmieto12
True Blue Farmgirl
213 Posts
laura
utah
USA
213 Posts |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
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4forMe
True Blue Farmgirl
166 Posts
Dawn
Easton
MD
166 Posts |
Posted - Apr 21 2008 : 05:53:26 AM
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DH and I have been stalking a farm. It is 52 acres with an 1800's brick colonial home, several barns, and my favorite, a mature fruit and nut orchard. The lady (a widow) who lives there wants a lot of money for it (as she should) but through investigating the location and the surrounding land values, she is asking almost twice the market value. While I understand to her it is so valuable, we can't spend as much as she is asking on that place, it would be a poor financial decision for us. We are hoping that she lowers her asking price or we win the lottery and can pay her what she wants for it.
I have felt so emotional each time we've been to look at it. Maybe it will happen for us I will keep hoping.
Sewing, knitting, gardening mom of 4. |
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iloveprims
True Blue Farmgirl
154 Posts
TRACY
Phillipsburg
NJ
USA
154 Posts |
Posted - Jul 09 2008 : 3:26:56 PM
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I hope everything turns out just the way you want it and you get the farm, let us know how things turn out and I will send good thoughts your way.
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kelliraeb
Farmgirl in Training
29 Posts
kelli
Michigan
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Posted - Jul 13 2008 : 7:47:52 PM
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| I am kind of a farm stalker too. Whenever I am anywhere near the property we bid on I have to drive by and take a look. I have taken everyone I know to see it too. The house is nothing special to look at, I look at it with an eye to the future, what it will be eventually if we are lucky enough to get it. I probably doesn't look very special to anyone else. |
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MissWhit
True Blue Farmgirl
142 Posts
Whitney
Maine
USA
142 Posts |
Posted - Jul 14 2008 : 08:49:55 AM
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My best friends mother has embarrassed them for years by property/house stalking. She goes right up to their door and gives them her card and says to please call if they are ever interested in selling. About a week ago, she finally caught someone at home at a house they all have been pining for for several years now. And the owner laughed and laughed and said that that's how they bought THAT house! She had been eyeing it for several months and when she knocked on the door the owner said that she and her husband planned on living there forever and they wouldn't be interested in selling. Not 6 months later the lady got a phone call from the owner and said they had to move in 60 days, and did they still want the property. So the woman assured my friend's mother she would call the minute their lives took a different turn and they would need to move. IT WORKS!!!
"The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest." Thomas More
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TabithaLenox
True Blue Farmgirl
605 Posts
Kim
Gettysburg
PA
USA
605 Posts |
Posted - Jul 15 2008 : 06:11:34 AM
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hmmmmm...hate to be the stalking party pooper but trespassing is a serious issue and most property owners post no trespassing signs for a reason. Please be respectful of those of us who don't want complete strangers intruding, coming to the door, or salivating on the property we worked so hard to get....
Dream for the property, wish for the property but please don't insist that the property owner participate in your dream....
Kim
Farmgirl #184
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