Incredible - how many issues you pack into a small post. You have a gift.
The two guys buying a hundred acres, with garden, and GREENHOUSE (I want!), then their new "fancy pants" (lol !) restaurant on the property -- that's my dream. Organic, Allergen-Free, No Plastic, locally sourced, home cooked food. But they got tired of it. Sold the place. And the buyer. Oh Lord:
*** the woman's kids had her declared incapable of managing her own financial affairs ***
Hey, buying real estate is way smarter than spending her money on hair salons, new clothes that go out of style every year, more shoes and purses, etc, etc,
(My sister was a school teacher for DODS - for an Air Force base in Germany - and she managed to buy several houses, and rent them out, and hire maintenance men - a savvy investor!)
Homes cost less in New York (and Pennsylvania, and Virginia) - we've been looking out east. My husband may retire in a year, and he wants out of the Midwest. Colorado is way expensive. It's stunning what you can buy out east - the myth is that east coast = expensive, and people move west for cheap land. That came and went, I guess, with all those homesteaders of the frontier. What frontier.
Daughters asking you to wear the "HELP, I've fallen and I can't get up" device: it's electronic! It uses wiFi or phones or something - my mom is going on 90 and she won't consider it. "If I die, I die," she says.
But but, Tim's aunt, many years ago, before cell phones, broke her leg on a hot summer day out in a field, and it took two hours for the husband and son to find her - in great pain, and very sunburnt -
Mom: What was she doing in the field?
Me: Nobody remembers. But that's not the part of the story that matters.
Mom: "I've never had a heart attack before," or a broken bone, or a stroke. Therefore she never will.
Ok, almost 90, and living alone in the wilderness (a big old farmhouse on land she rents out to neighboring farmers). Move to town? Never. Dad said that too. He would die in the tractor seat. Well, dementia got in the way, and he died in a nursing home, after all, much to my amazement (how did The Man come to this??).
Children declaring their mom incompetent -
Is she?
What a world we live in!
Adult children complaining about their parents - I just saw a reel where a daughter complains she and her husband are still renting, as homes are too expensive now for first-time buyers, but her parents just bought themselves a big 5-bedroom house with a pool, when they could have helped HER buy a house.
The attitude! The entitlement! The expectations that parents should keep funding the children's lifestyles long after the fledgling has grown up and fled the nest.
Your daughters love you and care about you, @owasco, and I do understand their wish to keep you "safe" with an electronic monitor around your neck.
LIVE FREE OR DIE - my mom, and New Hampshire -
"Live Free or Die" is the official motto of the U.S. state of New Hampshire, adopted by the state in 1945. It is possibly the best-known of all state mottos, partly because it conveys an assertive independence historically found in American political philosophy and partly because of its contrast to the milder sentiments found in other state mottos. The phrase was adopted from a toast written by General John Stark, New Hampshire's most famous soldier of the American Revolutionary War, on July 31, 1809...
Hey. When do I ever comment on a post without hyperlinking to something else....
LOVE THIS post, love your LAND OWNER image, and your spirit - you and the Revolutionary War heroes who built this nation!
(Me wanting to move into that Crafstman house next door and seeing you as a neighbor, in person!!!)
I didn't mention that they also had extensive gardens, a couple acres of them, and grew most of the veggies that they served. It was an incredible restaurant, in a very beautiful setting, meticulously crafted both the food and the structure. Open seasonally. They outdid themselves. One of them inherited money, and now they live very simply in a small, old, cottage on a forested lake.
Oh do move to Wellsville! You could get a fabulous home here for peanuts. I've been looking - this house is too big and the yard is too small. If I do buy the house next door and rent this one out, I intend to retain use of the back yard here.
It is good here! Plenty to do if you ask me, except for eating out - there's only one restaurant worth going to in the whole county if you ask me. Fortunately I have the lake house - there are two or three restaurants nearby that are quite good. Not NYC good, but far better than Wellsville's best. Winter isn't terrible, a couple of good warm coats, a few pairs of good winter boots, and a garage are all you need to survive the few months of snow, which look to be four months of heavy snow this year.
Although lately nothing much that I would want to live in has been for sale. I guess folks have figured out they've got it pretty good right where they are now. The people here seem friendly and happy for the most part. There are those Democrats who whine and fret all the live long day, but they are balanced by Republicans who pretty much never seem to fret about anything at all. We don't have the immigrant problem. This makes me wonder if the immigrant problem is even real, or as bad as we are told it is.
New Hampshire is another place I have considered. It's pretty cold there though, and another seven hours to the drive to Nashville, but closer to one of my daughters, the one who hasn't settled down yet. Then there is Tennessee...