Next step in what seems to be a long journey!

Entering our driveway fall 2012

The next step in moving our sea glass jewellery business JaJeJems to Newfoundland is the sale of our home here in North Augusta.  After purchasing a business location in York Harbour to house JaJeJems and The Roost, our planned cafe/gallery, we have only had to sell my mother's house, find her a new one and get our house ready to sell.  A simple task you may think but it hasn't really been that easy or simple!

Our driveway summer 2013 - The sign is up!

Do you ever feel like you are running as fast as you can but not getting anywhere?  Well that is how the last month has seemed for us.  It feels like all of our activities have centred around getting our house on the market so that we can take that all important next step of moving to Newfoundland.  Cleaning, sorting, carting away, more cleaning, more sorting, more carting away - it seems never ending but today marks the next milestone in the journey.  Yes today the For Sale sign finally went up in front of our home in North Augusta.   We have definitely had some help along the way and we couldn't have made it this far without the help of our family and our wonderful real estate agent Sue Steele from Hometown Realty who has advised and assisted us from day one.
                              
Here is a picture that we took last winter of our home.  We sincerely hope that we won't be here this winter to take pictures.

8419 County Road 21 North Augusta Winter 2013

We have lived in this house for 28 years and like many others we have accumulated too many treasures that have now become liabilities!  When we purchased this house it needed a lot of TLC but my husband Roy and our son, Kiah, both saw a great deal of potential in it, particularly in the barn and the 98 acres.  It took a few years to be able to afford to renovate the house which was rustic to say the least! First we had to tear off the old shed, then came the addition of a living room, dining room and modern kitchen on the back of the house, complete with a restaurant stove for baking, cooking and canning. Next was the total renovation of the old part of the house, over 100 years old at that time. Despite the cost and hard work, all of our combined dreams of living in the country with cows, horses, chickens, pigs and sheep came true.  Our daughter Jessica and I learned to spin, Roy and my mother learned to weave, Kiah had his work horses and we made butter, cheese, butchered our own meat and lived " off the land" to the best of our collective abilities.

As with all families, the inevitable happened - our children and partners in the "farming" enterprise grew up and moved away.  They both now have families of their own who are also growing up quickly.  Our oldest grandson,  Brandon, just turned 18!  Here we are (minus our two grandsons) on Canada Day this year.

Canada Day 2013 at Evanrest Farm

We called our farm Evanrest which my mother thought sounded more like a retirement home than a farm but for most of our time here it could have been called "Never-rest"! However, although we have both been retire for a several years now it is not destined to be our retirement home much longer.  We are off to new adventures in Newfoundland.  No more falls, winters, springs or summers at Evanrest Farm, just happy memories of 28 years of fun and hard work.  Hopefully Sue can work her magic and we will be heading east before the leaves turn in 2013.

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