9 more acres

The story to our land actually goes back a long ways, and eventually I'll lay out the whole story, but for now, I'll add just a chapter. When we bought our 9 acres a few years ago, it wasn't technically listed on the market. There were actually two other parcels (one was 9 acres and the other was about 5 acres) for sale and we were looking at both. We considered buying more than one parcel, but really wanted the two parcels to border each other so you didn't have to drive on the road to get back and forth. The 9 and 5 acres pieces do not touch each other. It was during that process that we heard this other 9 acre piece might be available, since the owners were moving out of state and probably wouldn't be building. Ultimately, we were left to choose between the 9 acre pieces, which share a common border, and we didn't think we could afford both. We ended up buying the 9 acres that wasn't listed, and someone else bought the other 9 acres.

This past spring, a friend was looking to buy land in the area and I suggested we contact the landowners for the 3 other parcels (including the 9 we did not buy) to see if they'd want to sell, since no houses had been built. In doing so, the person that had purchased the other 9 acre piece emailed me and said they had been praying about what to do with the land and would sell. they took my letter as a sign that God wanted them to sell. Ultimately, we worked out a deal to purchase the 9 acres on a land contract, so we now have two 9 acre pieces, joined in the middle. It may be that in the future we'll find another suitable family that wants to buy or rent the one piece from us and build a house, and where we can help each other out and share community.

For now, it's pretty overgrown, so I'm trying to clean things up and make some trails around the perimeter so we can at least walk around them. Attached are some pics and a video I made of the other property in my efforts to clear it.