Plan B

I don't want to give away anything in case I am wrong, but I am almost certain I am not wrong. I believe I know where the farm is going to be, I visited the property. I made an offer. The only thing I am waiting on, is the seller's acceptance.

The great things about it are the price and the location. It's exactly where I wanted, and cheap. It is almost entirely cleared land, which is not as good as part cleared and part wooded, but a heck of a lot better than having to clear a forest away.

The bad news is that it is hardly a turnkey operation.

There is a dwelling on the premises. It is not habitable and not likely to be. There is a well. It has no pump and hasn't been drawn from in 7 years. I mentioned in a previous post that Plan A was land with a house on it. Plan B was land only. There are structures in this case, some might even be useful structures (I will probably turn at least 1 shed into a greenhouse,) but nowhere to live, no electricity and no running water. So while this is better than some versions of Plan B, it's still Plan B.

So, once the deal closes, I will return to Dallas and commence to convert my van, not to an RV but to a setup where I can camp in it while I am doing the necessary preliminary work on the farm. I will need to put in a 300 watt solar power system to power tools, the phone, a USB heating element for sleeping in cold weather, my zero degree sleeping bag with a pad for underneath, and a laptop. This will be a dry run for putting in a 600 watt system on an RV in the future. I will need a trangia camping stove to heat water for coffee and heat up soups and the like. I will need potable water tote containers. I need no-trespassing signs.

Then I will need to haul a WHOOOLE bunch of rain gutters and associated parts up to the farm and install them. I may yet entrust the watering of the plants to well water or water from the waste ponds, but for myself I want pure, filtered rainwater to drink. There are great roofs on the sheds and they have a lot of area, plenty for a water cistern system, but no rain gutters. I will need to talk to a well company and have them check out the well, test the water in it and get them to set me up with a pump that will run on the amount of solar power I will have available. I need to get the place FENCED, right now it is on the edge of a cow pasture and the cows have the run of the place.

In a perfect world, I would have all that lined up and done in TWO WEEKS after arrival there. Next run up, I would bring the modified 55 gallon food-grade barrels for the rainwater system. Sometime during all this, I would need to find out what my internet options are there - DSL would be nice, but I may have to settle for a cellular plan with unlimited data and a wifi hotspot. So that will be end of online gaming for me. ;) That's okay, I'll have a lot of work to do.

Then I get all my necessary shit moved out of Wildhaven and into self-storage in Glenwood. I might need to rent a proper U-Haul for that. I'll buy an RV and move it up to the farm. I will give the brothers opportunity to peruse what is left in the house and then get everything shut off there and sell Wildhaven. I'll distribute the cash, which by that point I may need myself, and move my cat Mango and myself up to the farm.

And I hope to get all this shit done in time for the 2020 growing season, April or at a minimum early May, which may take some doing. I am going to be one busy guy.

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The buyer agreed to my price. Assuming the title clears, I've bought the farm. ;)