40 acres and a barn

I have nagged LJ for several years that I wanted 40 acres and a barn. HE wants to get out of our home county due to rising taxes. Since we are both getting to that age where we think about (and yearn for) retiring, we had half heartedly been looking for property in Missouri. A couple of months ago we came across 37 acres of rolling hills, timber, pond and a primitive cabin. No barn, boohoo. After looking at the property we tried to make an offer on it but found that someone had beaten us to it. So we went on . . . a month down the road, the realtor called; the financing had fallen through on the first offer and did we want to entertain one. Did we ever! To cut to the chase, we closed on the property last Friday. We are now the owners (mortgage holders) of our retirement property! I will call the property Mt. Moriah because of it's proximity to the town of that name in northern Missouri. Mercer County.

Skip this unless you wonder where Mt. Moriah comes from: Mount Moriah (pronounced in Hebrew as moe-ree-yaw) in Jerusalem, now popularly known as the Temple Mount, has been a focal point of Bible History right from very early times. It was the place where Abraham nearly sacrificed Isaac. It was the place where Solomon built the original Temple of God. It was the location of many of the events during the ministry of Jesus Christ, with the scene of His arrest on The Mount Of Olives on The Fateful Night just to the east, and His Crucifixion (see How Did Jesus Christ Die?) at Calvary just to the north.

The picture above was taken December 31, 2004.I have lots to learn about these blogs. Just fumbled my way through inserting the photo. I'll see how it goes from here . . .