Hmmmm...a visit from my totems

[northernlights]

Only a short time to post, but wanted to get this down quickly. When I first moved to my minifarm, while building the barn one day we were watched by 4 pairs of raptors -- 3 pairs of hawks and 1 pair of bald eagles -- who circled low overhead for several minutes before peeling off in the 4 cardinal directions.

That winter, while sitting at my pc in front of the living room, an eagle flew just over the roof on the addition -- so close that I could see each feather delineated. Since then I've had occasional bald eagle sightings, but rarely from my home and never up close and personal. Usually while driving up the highway a few miles away.

And then last Friday, I was treated to a major event. First a young pair -- one very juvenile and the other with pure white head and tail but mottled body -- started circling over the front yard. Then 3 more adults joined and the 5 of them circled my pasture, along with several ravens. One eagle gave out their unique high-pitched whistle while the ravens cawed. This lasted for at least 10 minutes.

Saturday I was looking out my sunroom windows at my pasture and saw a single bald eagle swoop low across my pasture and land in one of my pines. It still amazes me how incredibly huge they are. So majestic...:o

No sighting on Sunday.

And then Monday, a pair circled my pasture for a while again. And about half an hour later, I had just settled down to study when a truck pulled into my drive. It was a young couple asking about the house. I took them on a tour. They are very interested. They've been looking for a year and are getting desperate to move within a couple months. She's raising chickens and wants to also raise goats. She already has 40 mature chickens...and is raising 40 more in her living room :o. Each flock needs to be kept separate or they will fight and she has no place to put the 40 youngsters when they move outside. My barn -- with 2 12x12 box stalls -- will be perfect. The goats could live in the aisle. The apple orchard is perfect...the chickens eat fruit. The biggest issue is the leachfield -- it's a 2-bedroom and they have 2 full time and 2 part time kids. They're talking it over and will get back to me. Fingers are crossed. I learned the MLT program schedule this afternoon. There is no way I can work past spring and stay in the program...it becomes brutal starting in early June. Absolutely brutal...

[rumpel]

1. what a treat...bald eagles!

:) raptors are so majestic, not at all bothered by the attacks of crows and ravens...just annoyed sometimes lol

the chickens may be prime target, though...

[northernlights]

2. there's no escaping raptors or coyotes in these parts

except by keeping the chickens indoors. However, the mini-orchard right in front of the barn will provide them some cover along with fruit. And her St. Bernards may also make good guardians for them. :D Time will tell...

[southerncrone]

3. Sending you light that if this is best for both parties, then it will manifest.

I know you have been waiting a long time for this situation to be resolved, northernlights. Here's hoping this is it! :hug:

[Celebration]

4. great post

Hopefully they see all the other benefits and can do an add on for the kids. Eagles!! I love them. Get some pictures. Have you been able to ditch your so called real estate agent yet?

[northernlights]

5. oh I'd ditched the real estate agent back in early September

when they sent me a letter suggesting I drop the price 10% or cancel the contract and enclosed a signed letter releasing us both from all contractual obligations. So I signed both copies and gave them theirs.

I posted it FSBO, advertised in in a horse forum and in Craig's List. The Craig's List ad is what brought the other realtor to my door. She was dishonest...said she was looking for a friend. But owned up to being a realtor in an early email, so I let her come by but didn't go out of my way to clean up. And then she discovered they'd never even listed it.

Between the letter releasing me from the contract and the evidence they were in breach of contract and violated their fiduciary responsibility, I'm totally free of them.