This all happened about a year after the family had sold its comfortable suburban home and bought some land in the foothills near Lenoir, NC.
They had a small frame house with ceilings a little higher than six feet, several outbuildings, and some rich, tillable acres of earth. They had bought the farm and the farm life — a life of working all day. For them, it was a small price to pay, such is their love for the land and the life they lead.
We’ll call the young man Daniel and the woman, Suzanne. There are two children, who radiate the love they have been given. They have clear blue eyes and almost always pay close attention to whatever is going on. The family has a beautiful, organically grown, and mulched garden, some chickens who roam the yard, a few beehives, and a dog, Skipper. One day they decided to get a milk cow.
