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We made a ‘run’ to the new house Friday, spent the night, & came back yesterday. We did get rained on about 20 minutes from the house, but I knew there was a slight chance & had the trailer loaded with stuff that could take a little rain. I could tarp the loads, but trying to get a tarp tied down so it’s not blowing all over the place going 70 mph on the interstate is a ‘chore’. I do have a cargo net that helps - nothing is getting blown totally off of that trailer ... tarps, bin lids, or anything else.

My SIL was an hour away baby sitting so she came by to see the house & we walked around the property. The sun was out & if the wind wasn’t blowing, it was very pleasant (previous day was very cold, wind blowing straight into the garage which made unloading the truck/trailer ‘not’ fun). It turns out that the spot I had picked out for the new compost bin is co-opted by the burn barrel. It’s out of sight on the back side of the pole barn & I like that spot for being invisible to the house ... not sure if I can squeeze the compost pile in or not. The burn barrel is on cinder blocks (I think) so it should be movable .

The raised beds ... I would like to put them on the back side of the shop. They would get plenty of sun (south-west exposure) and I have water right there, plus all my garden stuff will be a couple of yards away in the shop & handy. I didn’t have a chance to check it out in detail, but ‘something’ is going on back there .... maybe an old foundation, remnants of some sort of rubble pile ... the ground has a bit of a ‘rise’ to it, then drops off a bit. A “terraced” garden, maybe? I have a pile of stone that has some promising pieces in it & I am really good at dry laying stone (20 years of practice maintaining the AT). Next weekend, it should be in the 50’s there, so I can spend more time looking around and planning.

I suspect this year is going to be ‘no’ garden - just get the beds up there & in place, get some dirt in them, put up whatever fencing I’ll need (deer herd in the neighborhood). I do want chickens so somehow working out a chicken tractor is going to be a priority ... I do not want a ‘fixed’ run/coop. Chickens do an unbelievable amount of scratching/digging & from seeing what my SIL’s chickens do to their chicken run, I’m not a fan of that arrangement.

At some point, we’ll be spending more time at the ‘new’ house rather than here ... we haven’t quite hit that point yet, but it’s getting closer & I’m very much looking forward to it. Everything is different there ... laid back, pastoral, friendly people, extended family we enjoy, fabulous mountain scenery.