I know you all have been staying up late worrying and not able to sleep wondering the answer to this question! Well, worry no more the answer is goldendoodles, my new dream house and community farming! Amazing right? Let's start with Goldendoodles (golden retriever and standard poodle mix). They are the most adorable teddy bear of pups I have ever seen! Our friends Erin and JP are getting their new dogter Bella on Friday and she is coming to visit us at our house on Sunday! I cannot wait to meet this sweet ball of fluff. I do love Brolly, but he sheds and Bella will not! Brolly reminded me the other day that we have promised him a furry brother or sister in the future so while he may get more human ones first, when the time does come it will hopefully be a goldendoodle like Bella. So for now a furry friend versus sibling will have to do!
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| Sweet Bella sleeping |
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| Bella with her new mommy Erin! |
Second on my list is my new dream house! As most of you know I want to have a few horses and a plot of land to one day call my own for my kids to run around in the woods with the dogs, go 4-wheeling and for Andrew to shoot his guns! Well Saturday my friend Heather and I were vendors for an event that sponsors early detection for Breast Cancer called Blasting for Boobs that was skeet shooting event to help raise money for education on this subject! It was COLD and very fun. The family that runs the skeet shooting business had a ton of beautiful land and I told her about this house I have always wondered about. What is crazy I had never seen the house and only a wooden fence along the road with the driveway. I mentioned it had been for sale and she said lets go check it out! Well lets just say it really built my dream! It is 8.25 acres with a 2 horse stall barn and was built in 1990. The interior would have to change a bit as in the gold chandeliers and white carpeting Andrew and I have a more rustic homey taste. I also wouldn't have much use for a wet bar or billiard room, but it has a lot of potential! I love the fact that the house was built to fit the land and that it is not brand new and has great landscaping and big trees. I am going to call my Realtor to take us to look at it! It doesn't hurt to dream...
Last on the list is community farming. Yesterday we attended a festival at Peacehaven Farm right outside of Burlington. It was an event to celebrate the community with music, food, a petting zoo and hayride! We had a great time on the hayride seeing some of the 80 acres and farm's animals. Along with animals there is a HUGE garden and they grow all sorts of seasonal fruits and vegetables organically that people from the community can buy. What a neat idea. They just received a grant for $340,000 to build a few on site houses for adults with disabilities to live to work and the farm and take care of the animals. This is so different than the idea of a group home because these adults will be receiving the opportunity to do work independently and make a living for themselves. In the future they will also have intern housing as well. This is very much like a project I did for my therapeutic recreation class in college. We were to design something for people with disabilities to create an inclusion environment for all within a community! It pulled at my urban farming/love of people with disabilities heart! Anyway lots of fun and food for thought!
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| This is the front |
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| To the left is the 3 car detached garage |
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| This is the barn area built into the back of the garages! Genius! |
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| Beautiful Kitchen |
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| The Great Room |
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| The driveway coming in with pasture. Insert Brolly laying in grass! |
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| More pasture area |
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| The back of the house with brick patio and small screened in porch |
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| The backyard |
Last on the list is community farming. Yesterday we attended a festival at Peacehaven Farm right outside of Burlington. It was an event to celebrate the community with music, food, a petting zoo and hayride! We had a great time on the hayride seeing some of the 80 acres and farm's animals. Along with animals there is a HUGE garden and they grow all sorts of seasonal fruits and vegetables organically that people from the community can buy. What a neat idea. They just received a grant for $340,000 to build a few on site houses for adults with disabilities to live to work and the farm and take care of the animals. This is so different than the idea of a group home because these adults will be receiving the opportunity to do work independently and make a living for themselves. In the future they will also have intern housing as well. This is very much like a project I did for my therapeutic recreation class in college. We were to design something for people with disabilities to create an inclusion environment for all within a community! It pulled at my urban farming/love of people with disabilities heart! Anyway lots of fun and food for thought!
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