Jenna Visits The Farm
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Cooper and I have moved out of the inlaws’ house (finally, thank God), out here to a friend’s “farm” in Rosedale, IN. It is a tiny little hamlet outside Terre Haute, and the house sits on nine acres of land. It includes a gigantic backyard the size of a soccer field, a largish horseshoe-shaped pond at the bottom of a gentle hill (behind the soccer field), and a number of outbuildings. My buddy has a ton of project cars and other fun stuff to do. We can go shooting in the backyard since we are outside of city limits, there is a gas-powered golf cart to ride around on, among other things.
The house itself is this pretty big old farmhouse, and Jenna got to visit out here last weekend. It was absolutely AWESOME to have her here. It was a wonderful, peaceful visit over the weekend. It was a bit of a drag having to go get her on Friday, then take her right back on Sunday, but hopefully we can get longer home visits in the future.
Jenna did very, very well. The only issue she had was trying (and failing) to remember the layout of the house. Jaime (new housemate) had a ton of people over to help work on one of the project cars (1989 Helios Blue VW Jetta 16v identical to the one I had in Alabama, and was blasting the music out in the garage. Jenna and I were sitting outside the garage listening to the music and just hanging out. There were also a bunch of kids there, and a lot of other activity, all of which Jenna tolerated very very well.
We are going back to visit on Friday the 11th, and hopefully Carbondale isn’t hit in a 8th-anniversary attack.. Something tells me we’ll be safe in the middle of bumblef*ck southern Illy… 
