Thank you so much for the earlier well wishes!
We wildly overpaid but Wealthy Landowner got us the deed lightning fast, since he has connections, apparently he's good friends with a local judge. V and his crew have already been clearing the property with unreal speed in order to get Farmer M over there. They've all been working their asses off, but particularly Farmer M.
All the dilapidated housing and the giant couch and dying porch have been removed from this area, then they started taking down the sick/ dying/at mega risk of falling trees. They've got paid friends (who are very skilled) on machines doing the destruction and loading into a rented trailer.
Then Z, a Libyan (?) refugee with few useful skills is learning to drive Sovereign's giant dump truck to the dump. Apparently the dump truck is actually difficult to drive, and if he masters it, it will give him a useful, employable skill. Both V and Sovereign are really trying to help Z, which is admirable (Sovereign isn't charging for the use of the vehicle, nor the fuel). Z is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. On the way back from the dump, he is picking up gravel.
V in the black shirt, amongst the rubble on the other side. It's a long property. If everything goes according to plan (and a LOT needs to happen correctly for it to go according to plan) then promises will have been fulfilled, and Farmer M will be here with his camper, sitting on some gravel instead of mud, on Tuesday ok maybe Wednesday. The gravel is taking longer than originally expected.
For these kinds of projects, this is an absolutely insane timeline btw. But necessity is the mother of invention and all that. Hopefully the septic tank and well are both functional and can be hooked up to the camper somehow.
Farmer M's camper (which I was on the roof on previously photographing) is now 100% off grid solar and working great! I picked up his kids and got to listen to their group phone call, and managed to keep my composure when I heard Farmer M telling his kids about this place, his voice brimming with emotion.
His housing situation has been a shitshow ever since the divorce, and that was years ago. It's hard to co-raise 3 kids while housing insecure.
I'll have to give this property a name but haven't come up with anything yet. But if you're wondering if I'm having a hard time concentrating at work, knowing that they're doing all this kickass stuff and I'm not there to help, then yes. Yes I am having a very hard time concentrating.
The story continues with the Wealthy Landowner! He's got another small piece of land he might be looking to sell, also right near here.
Why yes we have another amazing kind kickass friend named D who has both ooodles of skills and who needs a better, more stable housing situation. I don't think I've even mentioned D before, but he's just effortlessly smart and kind and our kind of weird (he's also in the socially tricky situation of being extremely attractive and hardcore asexual - he's the only cis asexual man I know, it's a refreshing friendship dynamic). D has already driven all the way out here to repair some heavy equipment for clearing Farmer M's place, just to help out.
Here's hoping we can work good magic for D as well. He just needs a small but cheap piece of land where the zoning is mega flexible - this piece of land might just fit the bill. It would be 5 minutes from Farmer M's new locale pictured above, roughly 12 minutes from us here at Critter Cove, and maybe 22 minutes from the old BP project.
vaporwave
blakekathryn
kianamaiart
izzy806
germansingergirl
romaincrisis
gummygunk
