The beginning of our "Barn Story"......

Our Barn Story all began in 2019 when we put our "forever home" on the market in Illinois.  We built our dream home out of ICF blocks and lived just down the road from our favorite winery and raised our family there.  Little did we know that my job change and commute with have us make a decision to move across the mighty Mississippi into Missouri and begin another chapter in our life. We found land outside of Palmyra, Missouri and purchased 13.5 acres of half pasture half wooded land.  It was a perfect 11 minute commute to my work and the same distance to my husband's work. Everything seemed too good to be true.  The land had some paths down to the creek and the kids created a fire pit and a stone path down to the water's edge.  The land was scoped out for where we would build the barn and our future home.  We needed pasture for our "asses" (minature burrows) that we have from our oldest son's Make-A-Wish.  That's a story for another post, but we definitely needed room for Ranger and Jack. 

 We listed our house in late February and didn't have very much interest.  So the decision was made to build a barn that we could live in and then build our "home home" in a year or so after we sold and the dust settled.  Well more time went on and we decided to build the barn and finish 2000 sf and live in it for two or so years.  The project started in May and got off to a very wet start.  Foundations were pushed back and didn't get started as soon as planned which pushed off the entire building process as well.  The plans were to have my husband, otherwise called "Poor Dave" by most of my co-workers, build the barn.  We decided to live there in lieu of renting after we sold our house.  We were subbing out the concrete foundation, plumbing, and the exterior metal work.  All seemed to be going pretty well according to plans until sometime in June and that's where our story took an unexpected turn.  Someone fell in love with our house and put an offer in with a closing date of August 6.  This is where our life of living in a concrete 3900 sf home to the beginning of living in 390 sf on wheels.  Life in a fifth wheel would be our soon to be new home!

THIS is how "THE BARN STORY" began! 


  




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