In 2001 we started a lawn and garden maintenance operation to co-exist with our restaurant. Two years later we sold the restaurant, and for twenty years under the name Hassle Free Scapes we lawned and gardened to. beat. the. proverbial. band. while raising our two kids. We had tried to develop a niche business centered on recycled rubber mulch but for lots of reasons that didn’t materialize, so we toughed it out with real dirt. We planned on downsizing our home once becoming empty nesters, but when COVID hit in 2020 our plans accelerated and we sold our home and business accounts just as our daughter was graduating. We purchased land in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, but only land, no house, and being otherwise good parents imo we packed what we could of our hopes and dreams into a gutted '98 Bluebird schoolbus for which we'd traded a season of lawncuts and headed for higher ground (and fresh water). We found a place accomodating to folks like us that are slightly yet joyfully out of round. Maybe our “out of roundness” will provide enough curiosity for you to visit. We’re grooming an unknown trail toward retirement, and building a modern homested while trying to keep our sense of humor, adventure, and real footing before losing too much daylight. Forget the eggs! Building a nest at 60 is hard.

JohnandLiz