What makes you fall in love with a house? Is it the layout, the square footage, the way the sunlight dapples the floor? Susan and I fell in love with our house for a lot of different reasons. We loved the wood burning stove and hard wood floors. We loved that we had roughly 2.5 acres of mostly wooded land. Sue loved that the kitchen, although small, had original Amish handcrafted wooden cupboards. However I fell in love with the house when I was walking through the backyard and realized that the small "creek" that flowed between two hills and away from our house was not a natural feature at all. It was a drainage ditch that looked natural and drained the water into the sewer system out by the road.. It was man made, I could see where the cut for it began at the top of the hill and had been obscured by some underbrush. I would trace its path down along the hill a...
Can the City Mouse adjust to life in the country? The day to day adventures of a "city boy" in rural PA trying to adjust to things like chopping wood, growing his own food and dealing with the horrors of the complete lack of a decent Chinese restaurant.