The New View

This beauty is one of our closest neighbors at the new house.  It's us, the bean fields, the bridge, and about 6 other people for MILES!  Simply heavenly! DH and I have always wanted to live in the country outside of his small hometown.  We longed to have a little piece of land where you can hear the crickets and the bullfrogs, where a person can raise chickens in the back yard if they choose to (which I may or may not--who knows!), where we can simply live life as on our on terms.  And we found the perfect spot!  (Funny fact, we didn't even need a building permit for the construction of our house!  When we asked about it, people laughed and thought we were crazy for thinking we'd even need it!  Go figure!)

After nearly a decade of dreaming and talking about it, we purchased a couple of acres (and a horrid dump of a trailer, I mean manufactured home, no wait, let's called it what it was... a trailer, a tiny, crummy trailer!) in September.  After getting someone to buy and remove (yep, someone actually bought it! yay!), we began the process to level out the ground for our new home to be built.  Now, you must understand before we go any further... this is a rustic, country style home in a rural setting.  It's not your typical cookie cutter house that you'd find in suburbia (don't get me wrong, those homes are lovely!) However, when you are going to be surrounded by crop fields and located near what has to be the oldest metal bridge in our area, one of those suburban beauties will look just too weird.  So, we built a machine shed/pole building in a low country style.  (I'll post pictures of the house soon, I promise!)

Now back to the bridge... One of our favorite things about living in this area is the old bridge.  Honestly, I think she's special, like a rare antique in a world where everything has to be shiny new and if it's loses it's shine, well it's gotta go!  This bridge may not last forever, or even my lifetime for that matter, simply because our county has no plan to replace it if it is destroyed due to the huge replacement cost.  Even if they did, it just wouldn't be the same, ya kwim?  I know we wouldn't be the only ones who'd miss this gem.  One of the local photographers, who is a friend of mine, loves using this bridge as one of her favorite scenes for family and senior photos.  I hope to have family pictures taken here someday too.  For now, I hope have you enjoyed the "view" as much as we do.