here we go again...new Realtor

I guess grumbling and grousing on my blog is acceptable

we had been warned

1.) REALTORS ARE THE SCUM OF THE EARTH SLEAZEBAGS

2.) Never do business with friends if you want to remain friends

now....

Being who I am...

1.) I never lump everyone under a blanket assumption

2.) I trust friends until I am wronged by them

As it is, it was a friend of ours wife (Realtor) who wronged us, I won't go into it

and yes everything was in writing but that does not stop them from lying.

This outfit did not want (refused) to spend a cent of advertising 

thought they would just throw it on MLS and collect a hefty

percentage on the sale for doing not much

WRONG

Anyway....now we feel we are 3 month behind our goal now due to this foobar

we now have a new Realtor and hope to see results

In the meantime....we have been so busy helping out in a friends

 148 acre fruit orchard and doing many things to pay the few monthly bills 

that we have 

love this barn on the property...the silo's are glazed tile which I have never seen in New England before

  

  

One of these days I am going to ask the owner if I can go into the silo area and see whether this vine grew into the barn or out of the barn! 

there are many many vines on the property that hubby has been cutting out as they are climbing up the trees and choking them.

  

Overlooking the apple orchard

there is a huge blueberry acreage, peach tree and cherry tree orchards

on the property too.

We fertilized acres of blueberry bushes today with Urea pellets by hand!

 Love the bikes leaning against the old apple crates

this is becoming the banquet/function barn for weddings, celebrations etc

One long barn has 4 of these weather vanes on it

someday when they are aligned right by the wind for a photo

I will shoot all them in one shot

  

Ohhh yes...this is what this years limb pruning of the 1800 apple trees looks like

72+ pick up truck loads and fills about a 2 acre field!

lots of brush moving

 the larger barn is the one with the weather vanes on it but not visible in this photo

Next week I am taking my camera's back as the buds are popping out

the peach trees are about to flower

and I am seeing all kinds of wild flowers in the wetland areas of the orchard farm

We both are enjoying helping out in the orchard.....

what a pleasure and joy it is to be outside everyday in this beautiful setting!

the smells are wonderful....

amazing the difference in just a couple weeks

pungent soil/earthy smells of the winter dead

to the

leaf buds coming out which has changed the air scent

yesterday I noticed flowers smells for the first time

as we walked about cutting trees down and brushing I kept looking for 

where the flower scent was coming from

I did find the flowers and noticed the peach trees are about to flower too

then the torrential rains moved in so I didn't get to take any photos!

next week photo time!

Next stage of survival mode

I have been in various stages of a daily/weekly life of planning/survival mode for 

 the last 6 yrs now

I am a very good planner, scheduler and survivalist of life

financially. 

I know how to allocate money on what so that we are set up.

I figured out as we went along

how to use to our advantage each time things changed

like when the insurance changed 

to use it to our advantage to order again..

this gave us a stock of 6-8 months ahead for when the insurance ran out completely

Prioritize what to buy for food an dry goods so as to not run out

when the money ran out.

But this is the current stage of survivalist 
the first stages began years ago by paying off everything we owned

It was tough at times but I am glad we did it... now especially.

The two year mark of DH's job ending has come an gone last week.

It is a very frightening place to be financially 

 unemployment ended a while ago

Moving to RI for 7 months changed my source of income and I can't say that I miss it!

Having to give up doing a multitude of different professions part time for work 

gave me the break to learn to say NO and realize I was really not enjoying what I was doing.

What to do....what to do....

and something that will transition to Alaska with us.

start back up the wallpaper/painting business?

start again consulting for restaruants, businesses again?

start preliminary designing of everything from houses, decks, restaurant kitchens again? 

not even going near the working on computers again!

not going near nursing or the medical field again either!

Art! creating and working in various mediums!

Jewelry! my passion

I love photography but that is not gonna bring in money.

Making jewelry does and I love it.

Enough of this....we have are currently "pot jobbing" as some would say and loving it so far.

Helping with spring clean up of a 148 acre apple orchard.

Fabulous...

out doors in the spring air, moving all the apple tree limbs to another field to be burned.

Dan spotted this guy on his way into the orchard on morning.

Dan had a few days work before the owner asked if I would join them. 

the apple orchard

the best part of this job aside from being outdoors in a beautiful setting 

is

playing with the owners dogs!

We have to take time to play with them.

three are the owners and then she goes and gets 2 others for a 

group play time!

from left to right

Gordie, Homer, Ida and Gillie

 Olive out front with the frisbee!

she is deaf so had to learn a couple hand commands to

play with this one.

Farm barns next door

will take the camera tomorrow and see what I can find to 

shoot!