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Hey Colorado - so when are you actually planning to move? What are the parameters for your final choice of site? It all sounds very exciting.

Australia day was hot hot hot which all but forced us to drink lots of champagne while lolling around in the pool. A hard life indeed. Summer school is reaching the pointy end of term and my students are just starting to realise they now have no chance of completing all the work they should have done before Christmas. Ah, the joys of teaching at university ...

~ Melbourne

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I seem to remember a term paper assignment for History of the Middle East Through Literature that I waited until the bitter end to produce. As an Army veteran majoring in Wildlife Biology taking the class was considered a rather odd choice by my counselor. He was right, I couldn't get beyond the base point of reference for all Islamic culture being the Koran and therefore, placed it as the sole component of my term paper. Professor didn't like my term paper but thanked me for providing a different perspective that he didn't normally have in the class. Also met a delightful raven haired diversion with eyes of crystal blue. Ah, the joys of university...
My original plans had me placing my townhome on the market at the beginning of March. This provides families interested in moving to this location ample opportunity to make the offer/sale/move and be ready for have the children to start classes at the end of Summer. I'm surrounded by a non-profit center that has a community garden and large wood oven pavilion. The town elementary, a brand new large Montessori elementary, a middle and high school and a brand new public library are all within walking distance for little ones.
I could send you some location pics so you could really see the property styles but this site doesn't have the capability. US farmland probably looks different enough from your area to make the descriptions somewhat sketchy.

Colorado

Selling in spring sounds like a sensible idea; show the place at its best. Here's what the countryside around my locale looks like in midsummer:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Fields_outside_benambra.jpg

and this is what's on the other side of town:

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~ Melbourne

This is the property I'm currently looking at. I've been in talks with the owners for over 4 months to let them. Fortunately, they are very agreeable on waiting for me to get there to make the purchase. I believe its due to my planned use of the property that has the elderly couple pleased to watch me continue their stewardship for another few decades.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/5459-N-Schoenherr-Rd_Fountain_MI_49410_M43455-75238

At the moment its time to get back on the snow shoveling. About 40cm fell.

Colorado

Goodness. What a beautiful house. You're going to need a herd of goats as well, judging by all that lawn. And such a low price. Quite astonishing, really. Looks like you're onto a real winner there!

~ Melbourne

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Thanks. I'm confident I'll get the property for roughly 10% less than listed. I turn into a little kid running along the stream chasing a boat whenever I view this place. Even my mother had a momentary 50 year flashback when I showed her the farm and started planning flower beds along the stream side. Sometimes the universe lets you know when its right.
Last week snow and bitter cold, this week rain and in the 50's. We don't get February rain in the Rockies at 7000' . . . just wrong.

Colorado

I've just been up to a conference in North Queensland for a week. 40C and 90% humidity. I think I died up there and this is being typed by a zombie. Heat I can tolerate for a while. Heat *and* humidity is an unspeakably vile combination which has made me even more determined to go and live in Tassie where the highest of high-summer temperatures are far more civilised. And though I returned to Melbourne late last night, apparently my luggage appreciated the change of scenery so much it decided to stay in Brisbane. Such a joy. The weather won't begin to cool down here until the end of March at the very earliest; perhaps not even until the end of April.

The river and all the lovely aspects of your proposed new home are splendid. I'd be out walking the bounds every possible day too; it would be difficult to stay inside, I think.

~ Melbourne

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Things are moving along quite well in my re-purposing lifestyle. I'm continuously impressed with how totally planned threads come together with the seemingly chaotic to form a weave more flexible and resilient than the original design. I'm guessing the final move occurs by the end of May.
The new NS design is very well thought out. I'm sure many regions were already keeping stats in their forums similar to the new style.

Colorado

All is madness here. The autumn semester has just begun and there are students bouncing off every conceivable surface. Only two weeks and already I need a stiff drink. As I head out into the mealstrom that is university life in Melbourne, in the words of Commander Oates, "I may be some time."

Hope the sale is proceeding as planned. May is a perfect time to move.

~ Melbourne

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So ... blazing hot summer for eight months; approximately thirty seconds of autumn and now straight back into winter. Interesting weather we'vre having down here.

~ Melbourne

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And now approaches the joyous time of semster-end grading of papers. The endless, endless grading of papers. I feel like a War Poet.

~ Melbourne

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Greetings, J-Me. What's your poison?

~ Dioxin

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Still alive. Moving a household of 25+ years of raising kids, grandkids, animals and such is a daunting task. Great benefit to the neighborhood in that they get the stuff I don't want to move across the country. Hope things are well as you head into Winter.

Colorado

I feel your pain. Moving house to different continents not once, but twice (what was I thinking?) has given me a very healthy respect for the notion of minimalism. The act of clearing out a house of stuff is both cathartic and a form of perdition. Onwards and upwards!

~ Melbourne

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