Rural Lifestyle

Back in 2013 I was fed up with living in the city and the noise and the crowds. Having to repeat your order at the counter because of the noise. So I moved to the country and found a place well away from most things and most people in the area. Not lush country side with running streams and heaps of trees. A desert like landscape I chose, I found purely by chance a 80 acre block in the middle of nowhere with several buildings and a water well, so I purchased the land and started to fix it up to suit me. The buildings were concrete bunkers and were empty of everything. I had solar panels installed and a windmill to pump water to the 5000 gallon tank to feed water to where I wanted it and a solar hot water system. I found it got very cold at night in the open air, but warmer in my home bunker. The thick walls provide the heat stored during the day, it took almost a year to get everything as I wanted. Planting desert plants on the top of the building to blend them into there surroundings and with the solar panels behind the bunkers and out of sight from the only road. Nobody passing would know anything was there, unless you knew where to look. With a dog for company I was happy to live like hermit away from everyone. But I had to go to the town forty miles away to get supplies, I had stat phone for emergencies and no internet what so ever at first. I'm Andrew now 49 and after almost 2 years living alone I met Wilma 47 now widow in the town. I would talk with her on my weekly trips into town and we got very friendly. She knew of the old testing site I owned and asked would I mind her coming out for a look. I said you can come if you want, I didn't have any signs up or anything that would show there was something there, not even a no entry sign. So later that day she followed me out to my place and stayed the night. After that day I would go to town the day before and stay the night with Wilma and she would come out and stay with me. I enjoyed our time together and this continued on for almost 2 years, then Wilma and me married and she sold her home and moved in with me. Still living a quiet life and the weekly trip into town for supplies. At the end of 2019, Judith 44 Wilma's younger sister arrived to visit with her only child Alison 23. Judith had jus t got divorced and she moved away from her old hometown as her ex Donald was causing her and Alison trouble. Court orders were ignored by him and when he was jailed she quickly left town with Alison and telling people in the town she was going to city. But they came to us, I wasn't worried about them coming and they soon settled in with us. They had there own bunker at first, but as time passed first Judith joined Wilma and me in our bed and finally Alison also joined us. During the lockdown of the pandemic Alison got pregnant to me and has a boy we called Martin after my late father earlier this year. I would still and get supplies alone during pandemic and on one of my trips in June I came across Donald I knew him by his photo and he asked me was I a local. Yes I am I answered and he asked me where Wilma was now as he drove to her old address and new people were living there and he didn't ask them where she was. I told she moved to live with sister, but didn't know where. Maybe the city I added and he got back into his car drove away. I quickly returned home and told them about Donald, so far he hasn't returned and so we're living a quiet life with a few more animals chickens and 5 horses and 2 extra dogs. I love my rural lifestyle.