I love land, I think you all know that by now, but I’m wondering to what extent I’ll go to get some.  Sure, we’ve been pestering an old man indirectly about his plans, yes we’ve turned down a million dollar house complete with pool because there wasn’t a place for my parents, but how far will I go?

I’ve been busting my arse on my novel.  I really have.  I’ve put a few hours a day into it in the last week or so and it’s starting to flow again (that and I’m beginning to dream about it again).  I still don’t have a firm ending, but I have a few in my mind that would work.  I’m starting to think it’ll have to be a two parter though because I’m at 260 pages so far and I’m not even close to the end yet.  But I’m not sure if there’s enough for a second part or not.  I could just swing it up to 400 or 500 pages and complete it.  Then I’d have to work at submitting it to a bunch of publishers that don’t require an book agent nor only accept them on request (bigger publishers do that a lot, but smaller ones will take books on the chance that they’ll become the next Twilight).  I keep hoping that this will help be able to purchase the land for us.  I have no idea what a writer makes when they finally get published.

That is a distance I’m perfectly willing to extend to in order to purchase land bigger than a thumbnail. Sure, we could go out now and find a nice 10 acre parcel in amongst many other 10 acre parcels and conform to architectural restrictions, take an entire day to mow our manicured lawn.  But that’s not my idea of land.  I want to be able to stand in my property and not be able to see my neighbour, not just for the privacy trees I’ve planted, but because the distance and hills are in the way.  I want little restrictions on the type of house to build or what shingles to put on my house or what type of rock must be plastered to the front, or how long my grass is supposed to be.  I just can’t get into that, I’m not that neighbourly.  But how far will I go?

I’ve been eyeballing an herbal greenhouse business for a while and have even ordered some government publications at the library to research it a bit.  It’s not a business that takes over the life completely and truly isn’t meant to be a high source of income, just a supplementary one.   So that’s one.

The next one is a little more work.  I mentioned in the other land post (one of the very many, sorry) about another piece of land our friend has found for us (she should be a realtor).  It has a retreat centre on it that hasn’t been used in about 4 years.  I have no idea if it’s a separate place than the living quarters of the family or if they are just live-in hosts.  I don’t even know how to run a retreat centre, but I have an idea how to run a B&B. Hell, I went to University for a business degree, you’d think I’d have to trouble doing this (didn’t finish).

I just keep wondering how far to go adding stuff to our plate in order to procure some land of decent size.  I’d be happy with 80 acres, hell I’d be happy with 35 but those sizes aren’t for sale right now … then again, technically neither of the places we’re talking about are either.

Meh, I’m not good with the waiting, can you tell?  I just keep talking and talking and talking about it to pass the time.  You’ll either get sick of it, or start wanting land yourself!