Life in the Boonies

I'm starting to kind of stress about my money situation a little. Especially since my dear, dear hubby told my I was going to have to start paying for my own gas. Well, only 7 months ago I decided I needed one of these:



I've really enjoyed my 2008 Z71 Chevy Tahoe with the two-toned leather seats, satellite radio, dvd player and sunroof.



I don't even mind making the payments on it. But who would have thought that gas prices would have jumped up like they have? I failed to mention I commute 20 miles a day. Just little old me and a vehicle that seats 7. So now I'm driving this vehicle that I really like so much,





every day to work. The down side is it averages 16.7 mpg.



Now maybe if my sweet husband had not mentioned that he was now going to make me start paying for my own gas on top of my own vehicle I might just keep driving the Tahoe. But now I feel almost in a panic state to get rid of it and get something much more economical.



I know I have never mentioned on here but my 17 year old daughter and grandson live 3 hours from me and it has now been a full month since I have seen them and I am desperate to drive up there and see them. It is just so expensive. I've got to make a change.



This weekend I went to a Honda dealership to have a look around and had my Tahoe looked at by a used car buyer. Holy Moly!!! They were going to give me $20,000 less than what I paid for it! I flat wasn't in the mood to be screwed like that so I kindly loaded myself back up into my 16.7 mpg rig and headed back home.



My sweet husband has a very good friend who is a car salesman at a Chevy dealership and he said he can get me what I was wanting for my Tahoe. I sure hope so because while I was at the Honda dealership I found this:



MMmm, mmmm, I sure think it is pretty! It gets over twice the mpg as my Tahoe does! Its a 2008 Honda Accord EX-L coupe, 4 cylinder (not the V6). This is not a time for having V6s or V8s. That used to be very important to me but not so much....not now that I'm paying for the vehicle AND the gas!


Anyway, my DH also informed my that I have to pay for my daughter's wedding....so. Got to pinch those pennies.

We bought a farm this year. 340 acres of cropland. It's what prevented me from putting in a pool in the backyard. This farm has been handed down through my husbands family for several generations. However, in order to keep it in the family, when my father-in-law offered it to us and after considerable discussion we bought it. We now own a piece of America. We are landowners. I swore I'd never be married to a farmer. Well...






Here we are making our very first wheat crop for the first-time-farmers we are. This is the first dump into the truck.




Oh yeah...good old America, amber waves of grain, our little piece of the pie.





This is the Commander in Chief....he's hoping this wheat crop will help pay for this heritage we "inherited". Ahhhh.....farming.