Why...

As I have mentioned before, we are in the process of relocating from the beautiful foothills of the Smoky Mountains in Knoxville, Tennessee, to the rolling (relatively flat) farmland of western, central Ohio...

Since we first came up here to look at the land and start the process of lining up contractors, we have repeatedly faced the one question from many different people: Why in the world would you move from Tennessee to Ohio?!?

Well, we had our reasons -- primarily, we wanted to be closer to our families.  It is really difficult to get to visit with family often when you have to plan an entire day to drive to most anyone.  Our families live in states surrounding Ohio, and so that reason made sense enough to us...

But, that was before we knew there was another really good reason to live here.  Actually, there are many good reasons to live here -- the people...

Starting from the first contractors we met who did our concrete and our excavation, we have found people to be consistently friendly beyond what we have really ever experienced before.

Don't get me wrong, we have both lived in several different places, and we have always found that people in general are friendly.  It may have something to do with us being friendly -- it takes a friend to make a friend.

But, there has really been something different about the people here in Ohio...

Over the next days / weeks, I plan to spend a little time telling about some of these people who have made our building process such an enjoyable experience...