Finding the space...

   The past year for me has been a time of continued and almost obsessive searching for a piece of land that I feel that we would like to call home. Looking for land is a process that, for me, tests the resolve. I don't think that our criteria is demanding but here is what we are looking for:
-We are wanting ten acres minimum. (I would like some insulation from other people in the world and some stretching room.)
-We would like to be less than two hours from family and the big metropolitan area. (As much as my misanthropic tendencies may want to be cut-off from society, it probably wouldn't be a healthy thing.)
-We want trees. (They speak to me.)
-The price needs to be under 100k. (In this part of the world, that is more than reasonable.)

    That's it. Really. I don't think that is too much to ask. Each request on its own is quite reasonable. The challenges arise in combining the desires into one piece of land. The combination of size, price and proximity to the metropolitan are not difficult requests. Unfortunately, much of the land here in north Texas is either natural prairie grassland or it was scalped of trees years ago for farming reasons. I would not try to make a prairie into a forest and I am not young enough or patient enough to wait the years it would take to reforest a formerly forested property. Therefore the dilemma. Fortunately, without the immediate funds available to go ahead and purchase a piece of land, we had nothing to do but look and educate ourselves about the buying process for when the time did arrive. Well, as we all know, life seldom plays out as we plan or expect it to. We have found a piece of land and at the risk of fully jinxing the whole possibility of a sale happening, I post a photo here of the site....

   Ten acres of trees an hour away from the city. Pretty much right on target with what we are looking for and well under what we were calling our max limit of cost.

   Now, there are almost always downsides to every possible transaction and every story is more complicated than it appears, but with that being said, I am not going to go into all the details here. Let just leave well enough alone for now and I will update things as they progress. Because now I have an actual place in mind to consider.