Making my Dream Real

Ever since I could remember I wanted a cattle ranch house like I seen in western movies as a child. But I lived in a large eastern coastal city, even I became an adult I had to wait. But there was always my dream, an Adobe ranch house by a stream. I wasn't the greatest at school and worked at a factory. Then when I was 24 I won the state lottery, it wasn't anywhere near the biggest prize that had ever been won. But it was the answer to my dream, I started looking around real estate websites looking for the ranch style house of my dream. Nothing even close and then a real estate agent suggest finding a block of land and building my own home on it. So I started looking for land that had a stream, a creek or even river frontage. Still nothing that suited me, one day I was on the internet and came upon a 500 acre block of land out west, there was no stream or creek or even river. But it had a large area near a dry gully with large trees and flat ground where a house could be built. So I went out and viewed the land, the gully was seasonal, would only run when heavy rain came. But on investigation I found I could dam it and make a pond. I decided to buy the block and sold up in the city and move out west. I bought a small house in the nearby town and got all my plans for my buildings and dam approved and found a builder on the internet who done Spanish style adobe buildings. Chris 24 and after all details were shared over internet, I hire Chris. On Chris arrival I was shocked to find that Chris was Christina, a stocky build woman and I thought I had hired a man. But that's okay as long the job is done I wasn't worried. Seeing the look on my face at first meeting, she said Had been building Adobe home for over ten years with her late father. I said I wasn't expecting a woman, but I was okay with her doing the job. She would use local labour and trades people and she would live in town or on site, if nothing was available in the town. I said I had a house in town and spare room if she wanted, so she took that. She was all business and soon had the site levelled and was started the construction. I also hired a company to build my dam, it was to be built about half a mile from the house and would make a pond of over a mile in length. They were quick in the building of it, it was only twelve feet across and fourteen in depth. Taking 9 weeks from start to finish in actual construction, they had already started before Chris arrived. Three months into construction of my home a lot was done and Chris was doing a great job. We had a large storm and the pond got its first water in it. An average of 2 feet of water along most of its length. Chris said It was starting to look like how I told her I wanted it to look. There was a dance in the town and I asked Chris to go with me, she said She wasn't into dancing, but she would go with me. I said I'm not a dancer also and thought I should attend, now I live here. We had a great time together at the dance and started to go out together and then we started having sex. When the buildings were all finished and I was to move in, I didn't want to lose Chris and made a clumsy attempt at asking her to marry me. But she got what I was trying to say and said Yes as she liked what she had built and me also. That night we slept together in our new home and really tested the new bed. That was last year, Chris is expecting our first child in August. She still is doing building jobs and I run my little ranch. Chris has bought her own land 50 acres that adjoins mine, mainly so she feels a personal attachment to the ranch.