" Change Is Hard"

Change is sometimes hard....Hubby makes it look easy though. He's done with the courtyard fence and is hard at work on the chicken coop! WHEW!




I promised a post on how hard it was to move to this farm. We had dated for 4 years and were always at an impasse about where to live IF we did marry. I DID NOT want to live on THIS farm.
I wanted to be on a farm, just not this one. He had lived in this house with his first wife, she had decorated it and died here from a long bout with Colon Cancer. Actually she only lived here 18 months. It is a hard thing for a woman to move into what she feels is another woman's home!
Her "ghost" was all over this place for me. I barely even visited here the 4 years we dated.
I think he may have asked me to marry him within 2 weeks of showing up at my door but it took at least 3 years for me to even consider a move to this farm. I wanted to marry him, I just didn't want to live here! He had built the house himself with the help of his two sons and other family members. He had dug the pond with the same helpers, he did not want to leave it as he'd only been here 2 years when we began dating. We did A LOT of talking, I did A LOT of praying and I finally gave in after he promised, my name would go on the deed and I could CHANGE anything I wanted to CHANGE! The first thing we did was have this shed built to hold all the excess stuff of combining two households!

Later we changed these colors..........(yes, it does snow in South Mississippi)

To these colors and the shed no longer matches the house! HA!

This open patio was changed ............

To this wonderful screen porch we LOVE!

This open pier became..........

The Pond House!

A clothes line was added...I have to have a clothes line!

A fountain was installed in the pond by Eric's commercial diver son...........

Every flower and flower bed was visioned and planted by me with his help!

I changed every room in the house and all the furniture! (a post for later)

I am now glad that I gave in because he is the best thing that ever happened to me and we live a really good and happy life here! Now you know WHY he works so hard to build my dreams!

Scroll down to the next two posts to read our love story!