I am , for all intents and purposes , a metropolis fille . Having grown up in a suburban area to one of the largest city in the Midwest , I had my view set on move out of the presumed “ cow town ” I am from — oh , what I did n’t get laid then!—to a big metropolitan metropolis where I ’d trade in in my car for a underground pass and cautiously climb my agency up the publication ladder .
Then I finish up in Kentucky .
It ’s not that I did n’t like the Bluegrass State upon prompt here . In fact , prior to my move , so many the great unwashed told me about how amazing of a town Lexington , Ky. , was , and they were n’t wrong . Lexington has grown into itself over the past decade , make a refinement of artistic creation and music and upshot that has given it a personality all of its own . petty by little , I fell in love with this place — with its scenic buck farms and the beautifulRed River Gorgeas its backyard playground and the man that entered my life for keeps — but still in the back of my mind , I was confident this station was just a stepping stone to the liberal better property I ( or should I say , we ) would move on to .
tight - forward seven years to mid - April 2016 . This is the compass point in our lives when we lost all control of our plan and dreams .
Very often , people sing about “ fall behind ascendency ” or “ things not going to plan ” in their most negative sense . But for us , a series of issue seemingly alfresco of our control describe up perfectly to bring in us to the tip where we are today . Let me explain …
A month and a half ago , that fella I mentioned above — let ’s call him Mr. B — and I were planning our wedding . My large concerns of the second were how would I do my hair for our outdoor wedding and what napkin we ’d practice for the response . All nice but , in hindsight , petty matter compared to what would be in store . Then a friend — as a joke , mind you — sent me a notification about this pretty house for sales agreement about 30 minutes outside of town . It sat on top of a pitcher’s mound on a beautiful bit of land full of butterfly hayfield , forestland and organic gardens . ( You see , we ’ve been scheming for years how we could get Mr. B to purchase us a farm so she could raise pigs and I could raise herb . ) He and I were n’t looking to move out of the city — at least not yet — but out of sheer curiosity , we checked out the place , obviously not going to put in an offer . Obviously .
Rachael Brugger
Before I knew it , we were signal papers and securing loanword , all the pieces of what should be a puzzling puzzler ofbuying a farmfalling easily into place .
You see , this opus of ground spoke aloud to us , and before we knew it , we found ourselves snarl in its story . I ’ve always wondered how you would have it off when you find your capital - H home plate — when you knew you were on the nose where you ’re hypothesize to be — but here the esthesis was profound and real . We feel a peace we never expected and were liven up by the vibrancy of life that surrounded us . If we choose to come after any other route but the one repose out so clearly in front of us , I ’m not even certain it would have been possible . We were destined to be farmers — as incidentally as it appear to be .
We capture lucky . But the taradiddle does n’t end there .
Rachael Brugger
What I ’m going to write in the coming weeks , months and hopefully days ( if this is indeed our capital - H Home ) is the story of us becoming farmers . Full disclosure : We ’re not lead to do things utterly . In fact , thing might get atrocious at times . You ’ve been there , and probably screw better than I do that ’s how these things go .
I ’ve read pretty much every article on this website , so I ’m not going into this all blind , but keep in judgement , Mr. B and I have never done thisrural - living thingbefore . So get ’s make a good deal : I ’ll divvy up with brutal honesty our achiever and failures of populate the farm biography , if you will in turn give us a little bit of grace along the way . Is that something we can agree to ?
I look forrad to the many object lesson that the farm and you will teach us as we dive headfirst into this novel life sentence . More to come soon .
