We have seven good layers – hens that is. Seven good, solid laying hens. One of them is just coming out of a molting season and another has finally gotten old enough to consistently lay. I say all of this to announce that today we have set a new record. Today when Pan and I [...]
Yesterday morning when Pan was outside at the garden she decided to check the water inside the chicken coop. When she opened the door she saw Johntavious sitting next to one of the beds. He was motionless. She quickly realized that just yesterday he had laid an egg that had a soft shell and was [...]
We found out yesterday that we were approved for the USDA rural loan program. Great news. Come to find out our credit is in the top 5% of the nation. We have a pretty decent debt ratio. Here is where we are though. We are really crunching numbers to see where we stand in terms [...]
Not much to report today. I sent some tax documents and pay stubs to the mortgage broker last night but found out today I have a few more to send. This part is an arduous process. Yesterday Pan and I crunched some numbers and realized that buying a house right now may not be economically [...]
So far, so good. I did not start out by going to a traditional bank. After my earlier post I got a good tip about seeing a local mortgage office, Cindy Jones, of here in Barnesville. She was quite helpful and explained a couple of different options to me. You will note that Pan is [...]
Perhaps the first step to buying a house is securing funds. Six years ago anybody could walk into a lending institution with any sort of credit almost and secure a pre-approved 30-year loan. Times have changed though and I am not sure if banks are even extending loans. Today I shall see though. At 12pm [...]
Pan and I have been living in community with members of my family now for nearly seven months. It has been a great time but as we start to think about starting a family of our own and begin to discover our like and dislikes as a married couple, we are starting to realize [...]
It has rained for 19 days straight now. It is slightly alarming as last summer Georgia experienced its most severe drought yet. I don’t know what to think of all this rain. I know it makes for some pretty awesome images though.
I spent the past few days doing post-work and such on the Lamar County Comprehensive High School prom photos. I took almost 200 photos and because of the dimly lit banquet hall I had a lot of touch up to do. In the course of that I came across this image I took of my [...]
This weekend was supposed to be spent filling in a bit of land to make drainage in the backyard a little more efficient as well as to level out some land just around the garden. However, as with most of the East coast, the rain set in yesterday and has yet to let up. In [...]
