Where to Buy, Where to Buy

The search continues for our ideal landing place, an eventual home for our burgeoning herd of alpaca, chickens, dogs, cat, and children.  We have looked all over and back again around the city, but we haven't yet landed on that perfect piece of heaven in the country.

Part of the difficulty comes from having to balance any number of variables - amount of land, topography, soil conditions, zoning, the house and any outbuildings, as well as proximity to our friends and potential sales locations for produce and fiber products.  To find a place where every one of those things, as well as a hundred nameless others, is perfect is simply not going to happen.  With each property we look at we have to decide if the unique mix of characteristics equals a good place to be.

There is the added uncertainty of selling our current property in an unsure market.  We're keeping our fingers crossed that the perfect set of circumstances will present itself, but our hope in providence is not enough to keep us from working our butts off in the search.