This weekend Josh and I drove the 7 hour trip to Stillwater, Oklahoma… a trip that I will learn like the back of my hand. Every year his family so kindly gets together 2 weeks early for Thanksgiving so that we can meet with our other families on the real Thanksgiving. We have been meeting in Dover for the last few years and so it was nice to stay with Josh’s parents and go see our land! Josh has seen it before when he went on the scouting trip a few weeks ago, but I haven’t ever seen it. When we drove up I do admit I was a little overwhelmed, and for my personality type to get overwhelmed is a big deal.
It takes A LOT for me to get overwhelmed, especially when I was previously excited and in dream mode. Our land is VERY hilly, and we are going to have to bulldoze through a 4 feet tall sandstone walls to even make an entrance to get on it. The sanguine personality in me can still see the finished dream farm, but I do have to admit that I was trying hard not to stay in the overwhelmed mode.
My husband, Josh, has a lot of clearing to do.
So now that I’m home and away from the overwhelmed feeling (which mainly Josh will be feeling since he will be the one clearing the land while I stay home and work:), I am seeing the dream again.
Ok, close your eyes and imagine a hilly forrest in the middle of nowhere with a few horses neighing in the background. Let’s build a big red barn house with a front porch and a swing. Galvanized metal lights, a rooster weather vane, a thick white fence around our yard with the dogs running around like crazy. Now think a little bit farther out… a zip line going across the rushing creek in the spring, a hammock village lost in the woods, a picnic table at the end of the horse trails, the fire pit built into a huge deck, and the sound of the wind rushing through the trees like the noise of a waterfall. This is where I will live. Can you see it?
by Lauren Clark
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