Down by the River

Many of you know that I blogged for three years about our experiences while living in Europe and our many travels there. (thepalmersadventure.blogspot.com)  I love taking photos and writing about our many adventures, but I guess I need more motivation to do so than just my normal, everyday life.

Now, after more than a three year break, I'm ready to jump back in and blog about a new and exciting "excellent adventure".   

I started writing a few weeks ago but didn't want to publish anything until it was officially official...it is, so here we go:

Well, it's official.  We are going to build a house right here on this beautiful Idaho river!

And so is Mike's brother and sis in law...they bought the acreage next to ours.

Two houses, one river, what fun this is going to be...

After much consideration, we decided a little over a year ago, to sell our lovely suburban home that had become way too big.  The youngest of our 5 children was grown and on his own, so that just meant a lot of square footage for me to clean and yard work for hubby to do.  It wasn't an easy decision because we really did love that house, the yard and the neighborhood.  Also, the fact that one of our married sons and two of grandkids lived right across the street and our daughter and her three kiddos lived minutes away made it so hard to actually sell it. 

The next year was spent trying to get the house sold and finally in September of last year, papers were signed to sell the house.  We packed most of our things into a storage unit and rented a great little house nearby.  We knew we had a year to find a lot or acreage to build on or to find the perfect place to move right into.  So we started looking...and looking.

The one hold up and major problem was that we couldn't stop thinking of a piece of land that we saw last spring. 

 Let me back up a little and start at the beginning.

In May 2015, we happened to be driving through the beautiful Idaho countryside with my brother in law and his wife to take my mother in law out to eat dinner at a little place in Montour.  As we were driving along, we passed by a sign that said, "Riverfront property for sale".  River view property is one thing, available property actually ON a river is rare and what dreams are made of.  This property looked like it went right down to the river.

After dinner, we drove back by to take a closer look and got the contact information off of the sign.    A few weeks later, after talking to the agent, and finding out that the price was actually somewhat in our ballpark, we drove out there and walked around the property.   That's when I took this photo.  It was so beautiful!  Big skies, green fields and the sound of the river rushing by....just heavenly.  The problem was both of us still had our houses to sell.  There was no way this property would still be on the market by the time we had our houses sold and were ready to buy...was there?  And really, there must be something wrong with this place or it would've sold by now!?  

Months went by and I thought of that heavenly piece of property almost daily.  When our house closed and we moved into the rental, we started looking very seriously at other properties.  Every time we looked at one, it just couldn't compare to the land on the river.   We decided to investigate the idea of the river property a little more only to find out that it had been taken off of the market. It was terribly disappointing, but Mike assured me that it might take a little work, but he thought he could find out who the owner was and contact him directly.   Mike was so busy with work that he didn't get around to that very quickly and life went on, and we kept looking for other options.

Then last fall, my brother in law put his 10 acre property on the market and he began to get a little more interested in the river property.  We found out that it was back on the market and when Pat's house sold at the first of this year, things began to get serious... 

"The sound of silence.."  The river in winter.

Next post:  Making our pitch for a little piece of heaven...