is not to be. Our contract on the 159 acre farm expired on Oct. 7th, and our little homestead hasn’t sold, so the final condition of sale was not met and the sellers did not want to resign a new contract. They have others interested in seeing the property. So, as much as it pains us to do so, at this time we are taking it as a closed door.

In the meantime, we search for somewhere ‘warm’ for my husband to live. He’s been living in a 5th wheel trailer all this time, but now that it’s fall and the cold prairie winter isn’t too far off, he’ll be needing a new place to stay. We’re considering our options.

He might be able to come visit at the end of the month for about 5 days. It’s not a 100% sure thing yet, but we’re hopeful. By then, he’ll have been gone 3 full months. A very long 3 months.

We dropped our price on the homestead another thirty five thousand, for a total drop of seventy five thousand in price now, in just the last 3 months. We are now one hundred thousand under the appraisal value, and well below our tax assessed value, so if anyone would like an awesome deal on a 5 acre hobby farm on Vancouver Island, BC, feel free to get in touch with me and I’ll give you our realtor’s number.

It feels like this has been going on for SO long. Well it has actually been a long time really. I’m so thankful hubby has a great job now in the prairies, but our family needs to be together again, over there. This place needs to get sold.

I have to admit, reading some of the comments at a website about the whole “we are the 99%” made me feel better and realize we’re not the only ones working our ‘buttocks’ off to make ends meet only to feel like we’re constantly swimming upstream. I realize we are in Canada, and this is all taking place in the US, but hard times are every where. Hard times are equal opportunists. Any one of us can experience them.

In the meantime though, we count our blessings. We have each other, we DO have a roof over our heads even if the roof over the head of my husband is not the same as the rest of the family. We have our health, this is such a blessing. We’ve just been battling a very stubborn flu, while other’s battle so much worse. We ARE blessed. In MANY ways.

And through it all, we’ve become stronger. I know this has got to be true, even while we’re feeling very weak.