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The End Of An Era….

We are in the process of selling our house in the mountains at the moment. I can’t actually believe that I am doing something as grown up as selling a house, but there you go. We are selling a house so I must be an adult after all…

Any how, we are selling our house. It makes sense for us to do it for a number of practical reasons, but it is still like admitting that we aren’t going to be going back to the mountains… ever. Of course I know this really. I mean, we have the farm, I have a job in town, we have made friends and put down roots here. We are here to stay, and I have known we are here to stay for over three years.

I think Country Boy have would have happily sold the house several years ago, but we held on to it for my benefit. So I could get used to the idea that I’m not going back.

I’m not really a sentimental person. I don’t need to keep lots of objects given to me by loved ones. My memories are enough. But there is a little part of me that is sorry that we will no longer have our house in the mountains. With my parents and sister still there, as well as many friends, we will continue to visit often, but I guess I no longer have a mountains home.

I know I keep coming back to the idea of home on this blog. Home is a feeling. It is where my loved ones are found. It’s our refuge from the busyness of life, and where our lives happen. So I guess this farm is now home. Despite the many things I may never understand about it. Its’ quiet, yellow summers, and freezing cold winters, its’ old farm house and big garden, the wide open spaces, and the long drives to anywhere.

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  1. Sonia@ LIfe Love and Hiccups says

    May 21, 2015 at 7:20 am

    I get the same sort of feeling hun when I think of my parents selling their house but at the end of the day home is where my people are. All the best with the sale lovely xx

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  2. Maarit Munkki says

    May 20, 2015 at 7:23 am

    I have had the same feelings of joy of the new life and the sorrow of letting go the last part of the old. I still go back to my old house in my dreams at night sometimes. Home is a safe haven, place where you can be you and always appreciated the way you are. I have always kept my doors open and also in our new home since 2009 – my country life experiment:) – for friends to come and to stay, too, if they need a safe haven, too.

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  3. Jo@Countrylifeexperiment says

    May 19, 2015 at 8:41 am

    Thanks Lisa!

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  4. Jo@Countrylifeexperiment says

    May 19, 2015 at 8:41 am

    Probably…. I should change the name of my blog, but what too???

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  5. Jan says

    May 19, 2015 at 1:34 am

    Mum and dad had adjacent houses at Lawson. One was built just after 1900 by friends of both sets of grandparents. The other was new on land next to the old place where we had holidayed since I was a child. I had no problem with Mum selling the new place but the old place was sold by my sister with no reference to the rest of the family. My family would have bought it, not just for the memories but also as a little holiday base. One bedroom, front and back verandah, kitchen with fuel and electric stove. Bathroom was a later addition outside down the stairs. I still have problems letting that place go.

    Hope your house sells quickly while prices are still high.

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  6. Pip S says

    May 19, 2015 at 1:23 am

    Does this mean the country life experiment is just country life now?

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  7. Lisa says

    May 19, 2015 at 3:14 am

    Your blog does have a "home" feeling to me. Best of luck with the sale. I have moved so many times now, my idea of home is where my family is.

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