Yesterday, as we were out doing the perc test we met another one of our neighbors. She lives in one of the homes in the neighborhood that has a horse stable and riding arena. She was fabulous to talk to, very friendly and gave us some great information about living there. The homes all back up to large green belts, and throughout those areas are acres of walking trails that the property owners have put in and maintain. Anyone living in the neighborhood is welcome to use the trails and most of them have their own trails connecting into the trail system. That’s something that we’re really looking forward to! The trails meander around the wetland ponds that are in the area as well, which they call the “beaver ponds”. From an aerial photo, it’s pretty apparent that beavers live near the ponds from the amount of trees that are floating. Apparently, other neighbors have even seen little baby beavers in their yards before!

She also mentioned that other homeowners besides herself have horses which I know our boys are going to love. We currently live by horses and one of their favorite activities is going to visit the horses and feed them carrots.

Like the other neighbor that we met last weekend, her home was also built by D.K. Martin (www.dkmartincustomhomes.com). She said that the quality is impeccable and he was fantastic to work with – staying within budget and schedule. It’s sounding more and more like we should definitely look into using him as a builder when we get to that stage.