Three Houses

I haven’t written much here yet about the farm I’ve mentioned a couple times, called Novy Mlyn.  In the last year we’ve gotten to know Mike & Nicola Robinson, originally from Birmingham, England but now living in Tabor after they bought a farm about a 1/2 hour out of town.  The property has a big farm house & 2 big barns on it along with a few other outbuildings.  Within the first hour of being there for the first time after having moved to CZ they watched the second barn collapse before their eyes, the first barn having collapsed during the heavy snows a couple winters back. 

Last summer they offerred to give us the patch of land on which one of the barns is situated, to join them in life there & in reconstructing the barn & the rest of the property.  We’d already been looking at buying something in the country in tandem with others somehow for a few years prior.  We were both inclined to take up their offer so in the last year we’ve been making baby steps in all the logistics involved in this rather massive project.

We were out there for the afternoon on Sunday & yesterday afternoon we spent a good deal of time cleaning up the farmhouse in preparation for a team that’s coming tomorrow to help out with manual labour - mostly a whole lot of deconstruction & clean-up in preparation to be able to re-build where the dilapidated barns now stand.