THE HARD PART

Today, like most weekends, we drove to Andice to spend some time on the ranch.

My bride's mom, brother, and baby sister all have a house within a few miles of our place. When we move to the ranch, visiting and holidays will be a snap.

After checking up on the family, we went to the ranch and looked around a bit. We have a wooden bench sitting where our front porch will be. We love to sit on the bench in the shade, let the breeze waft around us as we listen to the birds, and watch billowy clouds scud by.

Today a deer continually snorted at us while hidden in the trees. For now, we are the trespassers.

After relaxing for a bit, we had to once again do the hard part. The hard part is driving back to Austin. After we have become one with the land and totally relaxed, we want to stand up and just walk into the house. Driving back to Austin always diminishes the relaxed glow we achieve.

In about 30-45 days we plan to start a process that we hope will result in us being settled on the ranch in less than a year from today.

Then "the hard part" will be be a mere distant memory.