If you don’t know where you’re going how do you know when you get there

I feel that my wife and I know exactly where we're going and how we might get there. For several years now my wife and I tell each other retirement stories. We bought a little 10 acre lot in the deep west, far from the beaten track on a little piece of wind-blown prairie covered with sage, and an occasional Pinion. We like to fantasize about what we would like to build and what we might do when we're there. We aren't planning to quite playing music, storytelling or recording, but have more time for our research, writing, reading, growing a garden. I've been a wood carver and make musical instruments in my wood shop. We hope to take hikes with our dog into the national forest up the road one half mile. We hope to have time to work on that puppet show and tour a little bit with it and combining our music and storytelling with carving and back drop paintings. My wife wants to keep a couple of Alpaca's and maybe a chicken or two for eggs. We have a railroad storage container currently on the property to store our cabin kit in. When we finish the cabin I'll use that storage container for my carving studio. My wife wants a greenhouse for growing things year round and big enough for her to practice her Tai-chi and Kung-fu. We hope to have our children and grandchildren come and stay for extended periods, and the air is as pure and clean as anyone could ever wish for. No freeways will be built through that area in the next hundred years, because there is nowhere to go to in this vast under populated area of the state. Hawks, Eagles and other fowl and wildlife seem to thrive, because there is no pollution concentrated in the food or prey they eat. Our son bought a lot just up the road from us, and he and other members of the family have offered to help us build. Our water permit has been applied for and there are maybe a half dozen year round residents in the entire vast sweep of the valley. Part of the joy is the journey, just dreaming about it and telling each other stories is a pleasant topic of conversation. Obviously when we get there is when we can stay for an extended period of time, or finally make a permanent move, but there will always be somewhere to go, new projects to make and new stories to tell.  We just recently built our first building with a ninety foot turn around and a large swath graded off for our larger residence.

Dave Sharp
Glastonbury duo