Your dream home

We will need a music room.

When I was younger, I designed several houses... some of them quite large. I took inspiration from high-end realty magazines showing grand lodges in Montana and island getaways in the Caribbean. Now, my dream home is more about where it is located and who shares it with me than what amenities it has. A large house would be great, but would need paid help to care for it.

That said, since we're dreaming...

yep its a true story that got written into a series of books for children, which were published last century. It was also made into a tv series, so you could watch the series if you can find it online or dvd. You can even visit some of the places, and houses that Laura lived in as they have become museums. in the books, the simple faith of her mum and dad shine through. Laura married and had one daughter, who also became a writer and people say she was the one who encouraged her mum to write this series about pioneering life.

How about a little gypsy caravan or tiny home on wheels...? Or shepherds hut.
I spent a couple of months wwoofing and that was fun to stay in various farms around the countryside, for a suburbanite like me. backpacking was also a blast but its something you do in your twenties when you are young and foolhardy. However there is no place like home as the Prodigal son finds out.

This is an awesome idea -- tiny homes are pretty fascinating, huh? One of my favorites on a YouTube video was a woman and her two cats whose tiny home had a loft on each end with catwalks on each side of the side between them, which the cats loved.

I went through a phase of doing a bit of research on tiny homes, RV, and alternative living places -- I love the idea of living well and being able to travel on much less than it costs for traditional housing.

However, I soon found out how important it is to look up all the con's to those living arrangements as well, such as the maintenance (one video said you need to willing to do amateur plumbing and electrical work regularly,) upkeep (it's hard to find techs who will work on tiny homes,) and regulations (weight limits while on the road, limited places to park, as apparently many camp grounds and parks here don't allow tiny homes, etc.)

Another video pointed out the lack of security, citing one guy who traveled a lot and said he'd had to spend a considerable amount to fortify his place as much as possible, because he'd had problems with people breaking into his home while he was out hiking, etc.

I know the biggest deterrent for me would be having to drive something that big! Some friends of mine asked me to drive their SUV every now and then while they were away to keep it in good shape, and I was terrified!

Your backpacking trip sounds like a blast -- staying at different places in the country along the way would be cool! It doesn't have to be something for just your 20's -- why not go again soon when things are hopefully safe?

I liked the Laura Ingalls books too, though I didn't read them all, but one of my favorites was Mr. Edwards. I loved the story where he swims across the creek in the middle of winter just to make sure Laura and Mary receive gifts on Christmas.

Who were your favorite characters? (Sorry, off topic but I agree, their "Little Cabin in the Big Woods" always sounded so cozy.)

for some crazy reason... I dreamed this over and over... more to countuine

Hmm... what DOES define a home anyway?

I remember a movie called "Up In The Air" about a professional who had no real home, spent his whole life traveling from place to place on business. His "home" was a series of airplanes.

They used to say "Home is where you hang your hat." I don't wear a hat, so my version was "Home is where you have your internet connection." But these days my internet is my phone's hotspot - I ditched the home internet long ago.

Maybe "Home is where you don't have to ask permission to charge your phone." Or "Home is where you can take your shoes off and not give a flying flitter if your feet stink."

I used to think home was where my family was. I have a good family, real tight-knit and we love each other a lot. But if for some reason my life took me to Wisconsin or Canada or somewhere away from southwest Tennessee... would wherever I lived be home? Or would I still consider southwest TN my home because that's where my family is?

Before we continue this thread, maybe we should define what "home" is.

yea the tiny dream home is not without its drawbacks...and RVs also.
if you are going to backpack after your twenties which is fine but I think you need more energy or earplugs and probably could afford more comfortable digs.

I read this memoir about a woman who did build her own tiny home that she lived in with her dog. Personally living with a dog inside the house (especially a tiny one) seems to me a bit daft it would be kinda like downsizing to a kennel...and then staying on someone elses property and having to ask to use their bathroom all the time doesnt make much sense to me...lol. the thing about the suburbs is they were purpose built to raise baby boomers in but nobody really thought about what would happen when their children left home and what would become of all those empty nests.

my dream home HAS to have a bath I cant imagine living somewhere without a bathtub or somwhere you can be baptised. I feel I havent really been cleansed and restored if I havent had a good soak.

That depends a whole lot on how often you give the dog a bath. Some people I know keep dogs inside and they bring their dog's smell everywhere they go. Some keep their dogs clean and you would never know they have a dog indoors... until they talk for 40 minutes about how sweet their little doggie is.

favourite little house character, well almanzo, for a boy I was astonished at reading how hard he worked on the farm and no wonder by the time he married Laura he was rather exhausted! Laura ended up being the breadwinner by her pen when he couldnt work anymore.
Nellie was also one of those characters you just love to hate she was so mean to Laura.
I think Mary was rather too good to be true but she was so sweet.

My grandmother used to watch that show. Nelle can't be real. Nobody could be that mean, but still be so oblivious to social cues. If Nelle were real she would have either gotten a lot sneakier or had the meanness beat out of her long before she got to the age she was in the show.

That goes double for Nelle's mother. Couldn't possibly be based on a real person, even loosely.

Cabin next to the mountain with plenty of mountain bike trails in the summer and snowboarding in the winter.

Who needs money? Make your dreams come true.

Well interesting to me is basically a lot of things I enjoy browsing antiques, books pawn shops mainly anything that people take for granted and have little value to others. I tend to see what many don't in things like that including and especially people.
Antique shops in particular intrigue me. I love to browse everything and Contemplate it's history, the memories it holds what it meant to other people the families it has seen ect.

The girl isn't a problem really It isn't like I'm desperate for a girl or anything but man it's not fair you get to live there. I would move there where you are without hesitation if I could but I am mentally unable to live on my own and my medical issues with my diebtes and the medicines I take would be a problem as I do not know what kind of pharmacy they have there and I only get 740 a month for my disability so I could never afford it
anyways.

But the main issue is my family, they mean well but basically I am a prisoner in my own home, everything gets decided for me and I get no say in the matter they would do anything to get me back even call the police and go to legal measures they also are not above lying about guardianship. Since I am 29 they cannot have legal guardianship but they have lied to the cops about it before

I found one on YouTube @Lanolin and it sounds/looks beautiful 😍 Thanks, You are right it is a beautiful one 😍

Here's what I found on Youtube 😊 Is this the one?

yep but be aware that they took a few dramatic licence with the books...
I havent seen the whole series but if this lockdown carries on for longer I might join you.

Ah, THOSE "interesting" stores we have in spades. I like to look through their used CD collections.

Wow.. maybe in another life time I can live there, unless God by some miracle makes a way. I won't lie after we spoke I prayed that he would find some way but this felt like one of those prayers where I knew the answer before I asked. Prayer works strangely for me, there are times when I feel in my spirit the answer yes and other times no or not now but honestly even when the answer feels like no or not now I still have hope.