...in all the right places?
This last Monday my girlfriend (watch this space for developments) and I, along with my Slovak hillbilly brother James and his gracious wife Susan. We were over on the Olympic Peninsula, specifically the area of Jefferson County between Quilcene and Port Townsend. For Valerie and I at least, this area is probably the best compromise between affordable rural land, and a reasonable proximity to civilization. While living further away from Pugetropolis would be fine by me form a philosophical standpoint, what would not be fine would be being so distant from our friends and more importantly being too long a drive from an Orthodox Church.
We looked at several properties, some with homes on them, some bare land (and some not-so-bare land). We've been looking together with the idea of hopefully being neighbors, or at least in the same neighborhood. Ultimately it would be nice to find a few more like-minded agrarian-leaning Orthodox families intersted in a similar arrangement. A couple of the 40 acre parcels we looked at could be neatly divided into four 10 acre lots, or even an mix of 5 and 10 acre lots (and while I am dreaming here, why not a communal- there's that word!- chapel in the center of the community where prayers could be sung together?).
In other news, I've been accepted to the Northwest School of Wooden Boats, AND my student loan went through, so come September I will be learning the ancient and honorable trade of boatwright!
Saturday, June 17, 2006
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YeeeHAW and Na Zdravie!
congrats on being accepted into Northwest School of Wooden Boats; i look forward to some of your sharings about boat making.
MAN! You wait until I find a boy in North Carolina, and THEN you decide to become a bunch of Orthodox farmers!?!?! That's no fair. I want to play!
Thanks Herman, it definitely sounds like one of those things my mom always told me would "build character".
Arielle- I can't say I know you all too well, but I'd be surprised if you couldn't use your feminine wiles to convince Mr. ofEgypt to move out here.
:-)
Besides, hanging around James and I will be functionally equivalent to the sort of NC, backwoods, good ol' boys he'll miss by being out here.
AND if we find a nice square 40 acres, and James & Susan take ten acres, and Valerie and I take ten acres, and Jeremy and Kara take ten acres, we'll NEED someone to go in on the last ten acres.
Heck, I'd split mine down to 5 acres if the neighbor promises not to nark on the still.
Jeremy and Kara want to play too?!?!?! Now I REALLY want to play! Unfortunately, the NC boy is not really a NC boy - he's a Duke PhD student, so he's stuck there a total of 6-7 years before he finds another ivory tower that'll take him. I have a feeling they don't have a lot of work for biochemistry professors on the Olympic peninsula. Drat.
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