Would there even be any interest for...

Would there even be any interest for the following work situation?

Hi,

My family and I have two parcels of land (25 acres and 4 acres), both with houses. My husband and kids live on one, my mother and grandmother on the other.

We have been talking a lot about seeing if anyone would be interested in coming to stay as a boarder ... rent or pay or both or some form of barter would all have to be discussed.

We just bought the place last October, and there is a lot of work to be done. I have been on maternity leave, and that isn't exactly a vacation... but I was able to get some stuff started. We have a 100-150 year old farm house. We've paid for its basement to be supported/floors made more level. The brickwork has to be done, the roof painted, new windows, replastered/drywalled (just bare lathe -sp?- patches in places). We have 2 old barns and a bunch of untended fields with a very small bit of wood lot.

We have brought in animals (turkeys, chickens, ducks, pigs, rabbits, alpaca, goats, a cow, cats, a dog) and will be bringing in more next year (sheep, more goats, geese) and some day in the future (horse, donkey, llama?? maybe). We have infrastructure work to do... we have fields and fencing and more work than we know what to do with.

We also want to get a soaps and candles thing going, vegetable gardens put in, an orchard put in...

And we are thinking about looking for help from someone interested in doing some or all or part or anything to help with this... I don't even know where to go on from here, other than asking for people with any interest at all to contact me in this thread or to PM me. Even helping me discuss this would be welcome. Help me get my thoughts together.

Thanks!!

- TM

 

Hello, My name is Tony, known by tonysgreen on this forum. The offer that you have talked about is very interesting. One MAJOR thing that I would need to know before going any farther is, Where are you. I would not be interested in the east. I now live in Nevada, and will probably spend the rest of the fall and winter here. I am a country boy, and have some experience in most of the type work that you will be doing. Please contact me at (tonybates99@gmail.com)

 

We are in Ontario, Canada.

We're not looking for anyone until the spring as we are really scared of this idea and my family will take time adjusting to the change from just an idea to making things happen.

 

so I guess you finally sold the other 114 acre lot?

 

Yah, at a loss, but we did. I'm glad, because we were able to get this place. I'm bummed my dad didn't survive his lymphoma (the reason we had to sell and buy less expensive places and a bunch of other sucky financial thigns).
Now, we're trying to figure out where to go from here. I'm not... really sure. We've started, but I'm not doing overly well (very low... wanna hear a sob story? dad died last december, husband diagnosed with anxiety disorder/depression... financially we were in the pooper until yesterday - husband had also been out of work... just started at a new place...I'm on maternity leave and trying to look after my kids, my husband, my husband's 19 yr old brother who was invited/sent to stay with us because he was with a bad crowd and his best freind died of a crack od... anyway... I feel like we get nothing finished, can afford nothing to get things more finished, and I have this odd idea that maybe someone out there knows more than I do and could help me, but then my mom is worried that they'd try to take over or would be a mass murderer... I'm likely to be way too trusting and my mom is likely to think that everyone is evil... and I just want to fix my chicken fencing, get my house almost presentable before the holidays, paint the roof, and get some fencing it. Oh, and kill the extra roosters... and plastic the windows so we don't freeze...)...
There.
My sob story.

Please laugh at me and tell me to buck up. I hate wallowing, and probably I should have posted this in a PM... but yah, that's the f-ed up place any volunteer would be in. I had a response from someone and I don't even know how to reply to him. :S

 

welcome to life


replying to a PM is the same as replying to a thread..just type what you want at the bottom of the quick reply box or click the box in the message and it will open a new thingy

 

Hello again, sorry to hear about all your troubles. I may have been able to help some, had you been in the "States", and had been in the west. I know nothing about Canada, and as I am pretty well broke , I could not afford to travel your way. Best of luck to you and your family. tonysgreen