Big Life Events Can Really Set You Back On Blog Posts

Well! I thought it had been a while the last time! (er, when I said I would be updating weekly...) I say that buying a house is a good excuse! I wish I had been updating the whole time as it was quite a process, but needless to say, after a lot of hard work and jumping through hoops of fire, we are now the proud owners of an 1870s brick farmhouse, a nice barn, and 63 acres!


Farewell old makeshift rented homestead!

Some of you may have noticed a change in the name and domain of the blog from "the davenport homestead" to "the brick house homestead" Now that we are hopefully settled at our forever home we have gone with The Brick House Homestead as the name of our farm.

For those of you wondering, we went under contract January 11th and closed on the house on March 21 (my birthday!) Everyone is adjusting well and we are making plans for more animals as the days go by. The chickens got moved coop and all and even layed an egg on the voyage over. A friend helping us said it must have been when we went over the train tracks that the egg was laid ;)

The first night wasn't easy...we slept on a mattress on the floor and moved our pets the same day we closed. The cat had an anxiety attack on the 20 minute ride over from our old house and the dog barked and cried all night at the typical sounds of an old house and road traffic. Those same old house sounds kept me up too and at around 3am I was convinced we had bought a haunted house and made a huge mistake. Funny what a night of no sleep will get you thinking... I was so tired the next day that my boss sent me home early. What a nice guy! Everyone is happy now though (even my boss), and we've been here two weeks and there's no signs of ghosts (yet) haha.



Looking out toward the fields at dusk

We've been working on all sorts of projects around here, but the weather has suddenly turned from the 70s back to the low 20s! More updates to come on such projects so stay tuned! And I mean it this time! Also, pictures of the new house!


Until next time!

Jules