While house shopping, we chose the one we now own over another similarly priced home about 2 miles away. It was a picturesque cedar cabin butted up against a wooded mountain; Coondog's dream home. It didn't have as much land attached but the next door neighbor was willing to sell his an acre or two at a time so we could have added on over the years. It was fully functioning inside (unlike our current house) with an impressive water filtration system and had covered area out back with full electrical hookups for entertaining.
We told our realtor that we chose the house we're in because the other was across a county line and would put Ladybug in school the opposite direction from my work. This was true. However, our main reasoning was that the realtor's sister ran a commercial chicken house next door. If you've never smelled a chicken house, I don't recommend it. We had serious concerns about the effects of the fumes on Ladybug's lungs and on the potential waste runoff from this uphill neighbor that would be lingering in our soil where we intended to garden. Chicken poop is a good fertilizer, but not in massive doses. So we took the house that was in mid-remodel and all the work that goes along with that.
A few days ago, a different neighbor mentioned that he wanted to buy a new mobile home. Coondog told him about the log cabin but mentioned that he'd have to deal with the chicken smell. Turns out the man had considered buying it around the time we looked at it but the septic system was mere feet from the well. If you open the wellhouse, you get a whiff of sewage. Thus the great filtration system that we thought was just a perk from a previous owner.
When Coondog told me about this, I saw once again how God had specially selected our current home for us and protected us from a lot of potential harm and expense to relocate the well - if that was even possible. I praise Him for the beauty of his guidance in our lives. It re-emphasizes that we don't have to know the "why" of God's plan to know that it is good.
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