The Maine house is no more

As we get closer to the point where we can seriously look for land and build our home in the south, we've been focusing on the floor plan for the Maine house and looking into permitting and such.  During that search we found out that Maine laws pertaining to stand your ground / castle doctrine / duty to retreat were pretty crappy up there.  Because we take our safety VERY seriously, it removed the possibility of a house in Maine from the table completely for us.

We did find that VT has great laws but it's not on the water.  NH isn't too bad, but prices are pretty steep and permitting and such is a bear.  So we're punting.

We extended our local search for land.  KY has awesome laws for gun owners / rights.  We've looked and found some nice pieces of land up there.  Maybe if we build our annual house there we can build in AL or FL for the winter if we build along the very north shore of the Gulf.  Gulf beaches are where I grew up, although they were WAY south.  It would kind of be like going back home.  And land down there isn't too very expensive.  Of course there are the permitting issues of course.  They rape you when you build in that state.  But if it's a small house, maybe it won't be so bad.

So, we're back to square one.  If we're not putting a home in Maine for the summer, we'll need to reconfigure where the primary home will be.  I'm really leaning toward northern east KY up near the Ohio state line.  Instead of going north for summer, we could go south for winter.  Time will tell, right?!

In the meantime we're working at getting our land and house here set up as a true homestead.  It will add greatly to the value of our home for when we sell, and be very useful to us in the meantime providing a garden, eggs, chickens, pigs, etc.  This is the logo we're looking at.