My Future Acreage

East Side (Front)

The reason I refer to it as "my future acreage" is because its my Mom's home and I have every intention of purchasing it when she moves out.  In the meantime, its hers, and we want her to stay living there as long as possible and are helping make that possible because we know that's what she wants.  

The yard itself is 3.1 acres and every bit of it is mowed or treed.    It is a high maintenance yard to say the least, with a lot of potential fixing up for me to do once I'm there.  


I almost feel guilty because I've already made a list of things I'd like to change when I take possession.  There are no major changes, just trimming a tree here, planting a shrub there, planting raspberries in the old garden, etc.  Its not like I'm going to take possession and level every tree to the ground and start from scratch with landscaping. 


In the past few weeks I've been spending my days off there with her, assisting her with mowing lawn, raking, burning piles of branches, etc.  Its been lots of fun even though she gets mad at me sometimes for pruning too many branches off the trees.  That's been our sticking point ever since we got pruning shears when I was 19 years old.  I'd prune the lower branches off so I could drive under the tree with the garden tractor without whacking my head.  She'd get mad because she thought I was taking too much off. 

The yard is directly at a dead end corner, the driveway has white fencing on either side of it.  There is a lot going on in the yard as it was designed around an old square house on a different basement than the current house.  Thus, there are hedges and shrubs in what appears to be odd places, but made perfect sense when the old house was still there.

West Side (Back)

Some of the old buildings remain on their foundations; there is an old red barn which I love to photograph.  It will be remaining intact, but may perhaps require a fresh coat of paint.  There is an old red shack which may have formerly been used as a chicken hutch; that will be torn down and burned, as it is nearly collapsed now already.  

Those are just a few brief ideas that I've had about the yard; I've also got a list for the inside.  That will wait for a later post.