Love this article. I find it fascinating to imagine what it would have been like discovering this place and learning the intricacies of owning this property now. Also, did you make the third dog (wooden artwork) in the photo of your two dogs? 😊
Hi Jeanne. Thank you. I think we're still learning the intricacies of this place, although we're coming up on a full year now, and we're better prepared than when we first arrived here. The "dog" is actually one of a pair of reindeer that Steph's father carved. We have a pair of carved wooden oxen by him, and a number of his paintings as well. He was a well-regarded folk artist in Lunenburg County, and was actually featured one year as the main artist for the Lunenburg Folk Art Festival (which was until the pandemic one of the biggest festivals of its kind).
This is my favourite article so far. It gives a vivid flavour of where you live, the work you've had to do, the challenges you face, and the owls and turtles you live with. Loved the road details.
Thanks, Evie. I appreciate hearing that. We've just had a large spring melt here today (in late February!) and the road is much better shape than I would have imagined. I think once we do spring repairs and add more gravel again it should be fairly passable. We plan to install a series of culverts in April (we put one in last fall, and it works really well.
Oh, I meant actually getting up the road in your case & others. I was hoping to have to deal with all that somehow, in the 1st property I was interested in (had a sign 'enter at your own risk' LOL, ....
but I ended up buying land that I do have to put a driveway in as there is absolutely nothing there now, but it won't be difficult.
I love this quote: "Following the work, the road nearly met Class B standards."
Sometimes it takes so much work just to get something to "nearly Class B", but the improvement is so vast that it feels like perfection, haha.
Thank you for reading.
Love this article. I find it fascinating to imagine what it would have been like discovering this place and learning the intricacies of owning this property now. Also, did you make the third dog (wooden artwork) in the photo of your two dogs? 😊
Hi Jeanne. Thank you. I think we're still learning the intricacies of this place, although we're coming up on a full year now, and we're better prepared than when we first arrived here. The "dog" is actually one of a pair of reindeer that Steph's father carved. We have a pair of carved wooden oxen by him, and a number of his paintings as well. He was a well-regarded folk artist in Lunenburg County, and was actually featured one year as the main artist for the Lunenburg Folk Art Festival (which was until the pandemic one of the biggest festivals of its kind).
This is my favourite article so far. It gives a vivid flavour of where you live, the work you've had to do, the challenges you face, and the owls and turtles you live with. Loved the road details.
Thanks, Evie. I appreciate hearing that. We've just had a large spring melt here today (in late February!) and the road is much better shape than I would have imagined. I think once we do spring repairs and add more gravel again it should be fairly passable. We plan to install a series of culverts in April (we put one in last fall, and it works really well.
It's the start that stops most people. LOL.
That would be one of the challenges for sure, just making it off-grid in the first place.
Oh, I meant actually getting up the road in your case & others. I was hoping to have to deal with all that somehow, in the 1st property I was interested in (had a sign 'enter at your own risk' LOL, ....
but I ended up buying land that I do have to put a driveway in as there is absolutely nothing there now, but it won't be difficult.