Sold!

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is GOOD.

I just now wired the $54k to close on the house and 3 acres in Northeastern Texas. The land was in some ways better than I could have hoped, but is going to need work. The soil drains poorly, which won't be that much of an issue because I was going to go for heavily amended raised beds anyway, but in the Spring I bet I am going to need galoshes. Mud.

The house fortunately appears to have an intact roof, I might get a metal roof later on. It's going to need a lot of modification for an off-grid lifestyle. What I am going to do is super-insulate one room, my bedroom/power room, so that the tiniest window AC I can get will sufficiently cool it in summer. Because summers in this part of the world are not a thing you want to face without help. I am going to set up solar panels on an adjustable framework (raised and lowered depending on winter or summer) and have the power cords snake in through my bedroom window and into power centers, basically a combination of battery, inverter and power ports. I'm going to make those adaptations and then move all my stuff over there. Then I get all the utilities to Wildhaven shut down, put it on the market, and then move over to the farm full-time. There's a lot of stuff I won't be doing until I do that, because I don't want to spend a lot of my remaining money until the money from selling Wildhaven comes in. The one utility hook-up I want is water, I might have to get a plumber to set me up a separate faucet early on so that I don't have to turn on water to the whole house (whose pipes are in who-knows-what condition) in order to get water. I'll probably do that pretty early on because of course I will need water.

Then, raised beds, lots of them. I have a plan for how to do them cheaply but I have no idea how that works out in practice until I do them. For that matter, I don't know how exactly I will build the adjustable platform for the solar panels until I actually start building. Once I get the raised beds in, I am not sure how late in the growing season that's gonna be but I hope to at least get summer vegetables in, I'm gonna make a PVC greenhouse for an early start to next year.

So I have a lot of work to do, but I'm on my way.