Owning A Log Home

Well, if you're not already sick of hearing about our new home, read on. If you ARE sick of it, read on anyways because, well, you're here anyways and you really have nothing better to do.

All I can think about lately is our new home (besides job hunting but I don't care to talk about that today). Its a crazy notion really. Its something that neither of us have experienced before and just for grins we decided to go extra crazy and just buy a property and plan on building a barn on it within the first few months of occupancy... While moving and finding new jobs is tough on a relationship, so isn't making the single largest purchase of your life at the ripe old and wise age of 27 (26 in FMD's case). To add on to that, FMD and I decided to buy a log home.

The more I’ve thought in depth about the house, the more happy I become to have purchased this home versus a stick built, vinyl clad, drywall lined house that most people live in. Log homes I’m coming to find out (yes I’m just now finding out. I’m a fan of research and all, but when something just feels right, you know it) are a ton of work and are in many cases a very rewarding investment. All of this sort of makes me feel like a frontier’s man forging into the great unknown to find a plot of land to build his home and barn and to raise his family on. It makes me feel a little more in touch with the way things used to be and really stresses hard work equals great rewards. It seems to go with my current mantra, “Simple and Traditional”.

While my mantra changes from day to day, I feel really good about this and the way it seems to be reenergizing my batteries. It’s the reason I started carving my own decoys and why I want to hunt with black powder and single/double barrel shotguns. It’s the way things used to be and now those things are becoming a lost art. Growing food in a garden and raising meat on your farm... Taking care of your home and working with nature instead of against it. What can I say? I like it!

The overarching theme here is not the house itself. Its not the property. Its not the simplicity and the way of life I want to try to lead (to a certain extent… I am a computer dork after all so we’re talking cell phones and internet connections to go with my tractor that will dig fence post holes for me). Its really a culmination of all of these things and the sense of what a home really is. Its where you hang your hat and hang your heart. Its there to comfort you and frustrate you all at the same time. Home means a lot of things to lots of people, and I’m happy to say my home for the future is finally taking shape bit by bit, piece by piece…