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ways a pleasure to know others enjoy reading the blog pages home blogs about me tuesday june 25 2024 the start of a new journey i don t have a particular reason for wanting to memorialize this last couple days except that i guess it stands out in my mind enough to be a milestone i d like to remember through the years the month of june is always a busy one in our lives my wife and i always take a trip in july for her birthday and preparation and planning is always a big part of the june calendar there s mother s day in there somewhere father s day in there too we also have a wedding anniversary on the 19th and my birthday lands on the 24th without fail every year those dates will matter more as you read on this year was the first year on our anniversary that we didn t buy each other anything we both talked about it at length we spent so very many years scraping by paycheck to paycheck and saving pennies literally there s a jar in my kitchen still back in those years a dinner out somewhere nice and by nice i mean applebee s was a treat we d take each other out to dinner on our birthdays or mother s day or anniversary we would be sure to have some kind of gift for each other just to be sure the other knew they were thought of so maybe you can imagine how hard it was for me to get all the way to my 14th anniversary of being married to this amazing woman and literally have nothing for her to offer we both have everything we need we really do for the most part we have the things we want as well money is better in recent years and if we see something we like we usually just pick it up if it s within reason that makes the what do you want for ______ holiday question a difficult one because if it was affordable and our spouse wanted it they probably already got it for themselves sometime earlier the hunt for home some of you know we ve been searching for land for a home for quite a few years now we searched on our own for a year or two with no luck then we enlisted the help of a realtor friend to help hunt in earnest i remember thinking that it s only a matter of weeks now maybe a month or two until we have that perfect piece of land to build a house on and if you re ever in need of one i ve got a great one can you imagine talking and sending info and visiting land together again and again for three years without anything being suitable that was three years ago the real estate market has been a mess in recent years people want 350k for a piece of land that you can t even put a house on i remember 13 acres out near the county line that looked beautiful until you went there and realized it has two valleys a few hard scrabble trees a creek running through it and nothing but solid granite everywhere there wasn t a place to build a dog house much less a homestead on that was our luck time and time again for three long years right after memorial day a place came up on mls and i took a look at it i ve been so disheartened that i honestly didn t think that much of it i looked at it myself and thought to myself that i needed to remind amy to look at it later another week went by and i remembered to show it to her we looked at it together on the computer went over the plat the property maps and all the other data available finally i called the realtor and told her i was gonna drive out there and have a look at it myself after taking a trip out to see it and walking the land myself i started to get my hopes up a little maybe this could be it it s got promise it s large enough if i changed the perfect plan in my head and allowed a little flexibility in my plan for the perfect land to build our dream home on then maybe this could be it i went out twice more to walk it just stand under the trees and feel what it would be like if this was my back yard the place my dogs could run and play the place i d clear to build a home finally we made a phone call to the realtor went back and forth made offers counter offers and settled on a price that made both sides feel good about the deal and just like that it was done we d made an official offer on a piece of land coincidentally that happened on the afternoon of june 19th a few weeks before while sitting in my recliner i was searching for the appropriate gift for the 14th anniversary after discovering what the traditional gift was i was even more convinced i couldn t get my wife anything relevant that was sweet loving and memorialized the amazing 14 years together we ve shared it wasn t until two days later that it hit me the 14th anniversary traditional anniversary gift is wood the ideal gift would be something made from wood that symbolizes love neither of us realized it that day but we d just put an offer on 31 acres of nothing but pure wooded forest in hindsight nothing i could ever have made would be as good and nothing she could buy me from a store would have been as relevant or important to me after being married to this amazing woman for fourteen years right down to the very day we finally found a place that we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together agreed on it together and made the decision together to go for it sometimes god just reaches down and pats you on the back and says here you go son the next step if you ve never built a home from scratch you might not be familiar with the hundreds of decisions that go into it or the amount of those decisions that might not be in your control where does your well go where does your septic field go what soil is suitable for the house foundation is there too much granite to put it where you want many of these decisions are out of your control god and the earth decided them for you hundreds or thousands of years ago whether you knew it or not it could be the perfect spot but if it won t perc you can t use it if it s uphill from the house you can t use it without a pump system which is another point of failure in the future if you can t hit water nearby you can t build the house there so many of these things are beyond our ability to control i ve spent most of a week off and on walking this land searching for perc locations searching for underground water and wondering where i could put a well the amount of time i ve stood in the woods mentally saying things like well if the house sits here and i can find water there no wait that wont work ok if the house is there and the barn is over there then crap that won t work either so i started off with a call to my contractor i say that kind of jokingly because it s not like we build enough stuff to have a contractor of our own on retainer let me tell you the back story and it ll make more sense backstory in 2017 my wife and i had decided to remodel bear creek veterinary hospital the practice she literally built from the ground up and when i say from the ground up i literally mean it she designed the building picked the land and had it built to her specifications i can only imagine the frustration that construction crew had over the time it took to erect that clinic when it came time to remodel it we needed a contractor no one in the area i knew had the skill to pull off what my wife wanted so i went abroad to find someone a referral from my uncle reese sent me to david proffit i ll never forget our first conversation i called david and tried my best to impress him with the vision of what i wanted before he could hang up and tell me no thankfully either he s very patient or i m just lucky or i did a decent enough job but when i was done painting my picture for him and let him get a word in he kind of sat there silent for a moment and finally said mr jordan that sounds like quite a project you ve got there umm you do know i m a high end residential contractor right i don t do commercial construction i m not even licensed down there to do what you want me to do i said something like sir that s exactly why i called you your reputation precedes you and you well you haven t met my wife i went on to explain that the look and feel she wanted was that of a beautiful place to serve the community and that a commercial contractor was the last thing i wanted long story short over the next year and a half david proffit and i became great friends he took my wife s vision of what she wanted and created a masterpiece that today is the newly remodeled bear creek veterinary hospital if you ve ever set foot in it you would know what i mean its the largest most gorgeous well built functional and simply amazing veterinary clinic you ve ever set foot in the credit goes to my wife for designing it and to david for making her vision and her dream a reality and we re back to the story that was in 2018 for the last six years we ve remained friends with david kept abreast of his projects and he s stayed interested in our lives my wife told him after he finished bear creek that one day he was going to build our next home for us even back then he was quick to let us know that while that idea certainly appealed to him he had been building homes for a long time and was starting to look forward to retirement whenever we d talk over the last couple years he d tell of what he was doing and we d tell of our fruitless search for land to build a home on earlier this year he told me he d officially retired the house he was working on was going to be the last one and he wasn t even sure how he was going to get through this one i grew up in the construction industry so i remember my dad and grandfather dealing with the same things so when i called him last week to talk about the new property we d found he quickly reminded me that he was retired that s fine i told him i just respect your skill and your knowledge and i want to pay you as a consultant to help us find the right contractor and help us bring our dream to reality i asked if he was going to be down this way because i know from experience that he s got talent for witching for water luckily he was going to be in the area and agreed to come check out the land and give me his opinion he agreed and we went out yesterday to visit the land we walked for about an hour checking perc locations talking about grading and elevations hypothesizing about homestead locations drive ways privacy and all the other things i d found two locations on the property i liked for home location after breaking out his dowsing rods we spent about 5 minutes and located an underground stream about 20 feet from where i most likely wanted to place the foundation perfect as we re walking back down towards the truck we noticed another vehicle we introduced ourselves and discovered this was the current owner my realtor had been relentless in keeping all communication between the realtors so as to be sure things went smoothly so i hadn t met the seller yet as we chatted and introduced ourselves i discovered that he was also a recently retired general contractor for high end homes david and barry chatted a bit and david admitted that one of the reasons he d retired and wasn t necessarily keen on taking on a home down here was because it was so far out of his area that he didn t have any good subcontractor guess what barry had as a recently retired general contractor himself he has a full rolodex of his own crews he s been using all his life he laughed and said what do you need masonry drywall plumbing framing painters i can give you my guys for all of it well dang i didn t know it yet but david s hurdles were starting to disappear in front of him i had explained earlier to barry that davis was retired but i was using him as a consultant and friend before we left barry kind of smiled and asked david so are you going to be the contractor on this one or not i remember being surprised when instead of just saying no he kind of waved his hand in that wishy washy way we do when we re unsure and said weeeeellllll i guess that s not really been decided what ok don t say anything don t mess with the juju just hush and carry on don t get your hopes up this is what i m telling myself as we drive back to our house quite randomly my wife messages me and says would you like to go out to dinner for your birthday i told her we had david with us but he had no plans and asked if it would be ok if he were to join us she agreed and for the next hour and a half we sat at dinner and talked about ideas for the new home plan ideas detached power meter barn location well basement concepts everything two hours later we ve had dinner and we ve talked about everything you d imagine someone talks about when imagining building their first and hopefully last home together and we re back at the house while sitting around the dining room table amy finally just looks across the table and asks david in her sweetest i know what you re gonna say voice david are you gonna be our contractor as i start to think oh man talk about putting him on the spot he kind of half grins half bows his head in defeat and says yeeaaahhh i am i mean it was kind of drawn out of him long and slow yeeeaaahhhhh i am she literally jumped out of her chair and i start banging the table and she high fives me across the dinner table we have our contractor and that was my birthday present so on our anniversary we made the offer on the land and on my birthday a week later we have our builder and it s the one we ve been saying we wanted for the last six years looking to the future looking forward i don t know what to expect i don t know what it s going to hold for us i do know that i want to remember and hold on to the feeling i have right now the feeling that we ve had a dream for so very long and in a matter of days it started to come together i want to hold on to the feeling of walking through those woods and looking at the land and imagining what this can be when we get to the end of the journey or really to the beginning of the next journey i spend some days feeling average i m an average joe to borrow a phase from my wife workin in the dirt and i don t have the time to stop and appreciate how truly blessed i am then i have moments like this in life truly the moments you can go your entire life and only experience a couple of times where i look at the amazing wife i have at the life we have together at where we came from and where we re looking ahead to and it will almost bring me to my knees i remember as does my wife when we had 35 and it had to stretch to buy a week s groceries that was what we refer to as the aldi years in our marriage i remember her working 70 hours a week me working 70 hours a week and barely being able to make ends meet i remember aldi brand peanut butter is not skippy and aldi brand fruit loops are an abomination that should be considered crimes against humanity i don t ever want to forget those years but i also don t want to live in fear of going back to them circumstances could change tomorrow i absolutely know that but you also can t live in fear we re both 47 year old now i think it was john f kennedy that said those who dare to 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