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Escrow has closed, the farm is ours!

30 Wednesday Dec 2009

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We just heard this afternoon that the property title change was recorded. We are now owners (or stewards) of Sunnyslope Family Farm!

Instead of one mustang, there are now two mustangs, Mariah and Rascal. The two have been together for many years, and the previous owner had asked (as his last wish) that they stay together and live out their lives on the property (a request which we are happy to observe).

Renee and I did our final walk-through and property inspection yesterday. Over the past few weeks, we have tried to make friends with Mariah, who is a bit stand-offish and has not been comfortable taking food from Renee. But today, both horses were reunited on the property, and both took alfalfa pellets from Renee’s hand. She told me earlier that having the horses accept her would be a big step in her bonding with the property. This was a good day!

We are spending most of our time reading seed catalogs and writing up our  “to do” lists. One or the reasons that we have created a blog is that we hope to get a lot of input from interested folks. We look forward to hearing from all of you!

Getting closer!

20 Sunday Dec 2009

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Over the past week we got all the inspections done. Although not all the news was good, we now have a very good idea of what we need to do to build the homestead of our dreams. With luck we will be closing escrow early, just in time for Christmas. Over the next year we will be pretty busy putting in a new septic system, upgrading the electricity, fixing the roof,  totally redoing the kitchen and planting a large garden.


Here is a picture of Mariah in the pasture:





Here is a picture of the house and goat pens from the garden:




Another view of the house from the garden:

What have we gotten ourselves into?

06 Sunday Dec 2009

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The big news at the Ray household is that after many years of dreaming, we have finally taken the plunge and made an offer on a nine acre property in Castro Valley. It comes with a 60 year old house, many sheds including a small commercial chicken coop, one horse, two cats and at least thirteen wild turkeys…. and a lot of work ahead for us!

Keep posted for more updates in the coming weeks!

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