Coming Soon – a Grand Adventure!
Big news, we are about to buy an old farmhouse on six acres in Columbia. As in tomorrow. This has happened very quickly. The property went on the market about ten days ago and we close tomorrow. This is incredibly exciting and a bit nerve wracking. The basics are six acres and a 1600 square foot house about ten minutes northeast of Downtown Columbia. It is 30 minutes from Liz’s work in Franklin and 43 minutes from my parents’ place in Nashville. I would like more than six acres but this is a lovely piece of land that is very well laid out and the price was excellent. It will be large enough to do everything we want – goats, orchard, huge garden, and bonfires. The house needs a ton of work, including adding two bathrooms, but should be incredibly cool by the time we are finished. I am beyond excited and still processing the whole thing. I will write a lot more soon about our plans and goals for the property. But some serious work is about to start – I would like the house to be ready for us to move in by February 28th. Baby comes March 26th, so time is of the essence.
A couple of days ago I took a few pictures of the outside. On Tuesday I’ll try to take a lot more of both the house and land.
Mountain Mayhem.
I just returned from a nice, long weekend in Monteagle. I hiked, took a lot of photographs, read a bit, and enjoyed the cooler temperatures. It is starting to feel a lot like autumn, especially with a tinge of color on the trees. Can’t wait to start having some campfires! Below are a few quick pictures from my cell phone. I’m still messing about with the photos from my “real camera”, but will try to post them before too long.
This is a lot like work.
Well I spent some time messing with this site today. Added a few plugins, most noticeably the Instagram sidebar. I saw that it’s been about ten months since I posted anything on there. That will be rectified soon. I added a bit to the “about” page and started on the “maps” page. The latter will take a ton of time to both build the maps then link each marker to a gallery. Speaking of the galleries, I have not even begun them. Part of that is because I have so many photos to sort through that I am a bit overwhelmed. The other holdup is that I haven’t figured out how to format the page to my liking. Squarespace was much easier in that regard. I’m also unsure of what to do with the home page. I might just add one big image. I have considered running the blog from the home page, but for some reason that is less appealing. Oh well! The nice thing about the internet as an artistic medium if the flexibility. We aren’t carving chunks of marble here.
Genesis.
This is the beginning. Of what, I do not know. Only the who is concrete. The when, where, why, and how are also ambiguous.
Learn all about me and Tennescenic.
I hope to blog regularly. I hope those posts are of value.
The galleries will take a bit of time to curate. I have over fifty thousand photographs to sort through.
The maps should be a fun feature if I can figure them out.
The contact page should be self explanatory.