Oh Home on the Range

I was doing dishes last night and all I could think about was taking all of our left over food (our slop) to the pigs out back. Then of course my mind wandered to what it will be like living on the farm. The air, the natural food and the bonfires. Daydreaming again about our little dream of living back on the homestead. Of course what makes the dream more lucritive is the idea that the house on the farm is still for sale, and of course we are hoping to move within the year.
Perhaps it is my recent trip with Lara to see Charlotte's Web, or my novels of Anne of Green Gables I am reading, but I think this love for the country started about five years ago when I met a handsome farmer who stole my heart, and I was reading Jane Eyre.
Yes it is true....I am turning country. Can't help it. I don't know if it is country per se, but the allure of the 'simple life'. The sitting around a fire crocheting drinking tea while visiting with a close friend. The homemade meals prepared with ingredients found around the house. Don't get me wrong...I'm no country version of Martha Stewart....but I'm learning my part. I love the idea of baking my bread everyday (in my breadmaker) and hanging my clothes on the line (after they come out of my high efficiency washer). I even crochet a mean blanket now ;)
Anyway, lately I am longing for it. Not the hard life, but the simple back to basics. I don't want to go off visiting. I want my friends to come to my house and visit and I'll feed them jam preserves on fresh baked bread. After we will go for a walk in the woods and sit by the fire.
My husband can't believe that I am actually speaking these words. That my idea of a dream home is actually back on his families old farm. He can't believe how much I've changed and it had nothing to do with his persuasion.....just his example I suppose. I'm glad he is pleased with my dreams, and I 'm even happier that our dream is the same one.

Here is to dreams....and ones that may come true some day :)