Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Dreams

For some weird reason there is this dream growing in me. Currently it looks like this:

25 acres of farm land in rolling foothills, with water supply in several places, reasonable access to a medium size town for ATM banking, internet, etc. There should be a small village nearby with a health clinic, a local school and market.

The plan seems to be that I would live on 5 acres, have 4 families living near me on spaces that are also farmable. We would have converted shipping containers for our beginning homes and solar power.

In exchange for free rent, the families would help me look after and care for the livestock and garden near my place. They would be able to raise and keep any/all food they raise and grow. After 5 years, I would deed off to each family the land they had developed. The remaining piece would become the African base for my family whenever they wanted to come.

The only problem facing me now is trying to decide where to buy the land. Every place I have visited so far in Uganda I have loved. And I haven't yet seen it all!! Of course I need to save money to buy the land. But if this dream is coming from the Giver of All Good Things, that won't be a problem.

Some day.......

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