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Yet somewhere along the way we both found ourselves working in the field of marketing. In part, our desire to buy a place upstate was rooted in getting back to some of the passions we both enjoyed in our youth. Living in the city can be transient life. During my sixteen years in the city, I've virtually lived in every neighborhood having moved seven times. Picking up so often has an interesting impact on what you buy over the years. Will it fit when you move in two years? How much should i invest in a piece of furniture, art or stuff because of it? For the first time ever, we find ourselves with a truly blank canvas, one we can fill over a lifetime. It's an incredible feeling and we're going to do our best to exhibit restraint. After spending our first nights in the home with nothing but an Aero bed and some drinking glasses, it has become obvious that we need some essentials Luckily, this weekend was the annual Rhinebeck Antique Fair at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds and we felt it important (and by we I mean I) to buy at least one piece. So we bought an old yellow cupboard from the 1930's. The paint is peeling in a way they'd charge us a fortune for in the city to reveal the original coloring, a muted green, perfect for the array of pastel colors hidden throughout the home. It's a start... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57f81f13d1758eb0545cd99e/1476417590346-CHITGASF4C2VJG69FNHN/Yellow+Cupboard Blog - Blank Canvas http://www.murrayhillsfarm.com/blog/2016/10/7/beginnings monthly 0.5 2016-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57f81f13d1758eb0545cd99e/1475886130951-QJH9XED51Z5IHXXJCCK9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Beginnings... After 16 years of living in Manhattan, longing for more space and a reprieve from the urban jungle, my wife Sara and I decided to buy a farm in the Hudson Valley. Technically her dream was to own an old yellow house and i added "farm" but nonetheless, we're now the proud owners of of both. "Wildly Charming" was how it was described in the listing and every corner of it is, embodying everything we could imagine a country home outside the city would look like. The elderly artist/woodworker couple who owned it, bought it back in the 80's when they were the age Sara and I are now and kept it immaculate condition. Built in 1780, Black Sheep Farm, sits on a small parcel of land in Staatsburg, NY, just outside Rhinebeck. The small yellow farmhouse has a tin roof, and turquoise blue door. The gardens were meticulously designed, the vegetable garden flourishing and every time we visit it, we find something new and quirky that we fall in love with. There's a revolutionary war stone wall surrounding the property and a hobby farm that completes micro-farm. I quickly lost the battle to keep the animals that once included four sheep (one black), three goats, about two-dozen geese, a duck named Charlie, a ferrel cat named Sally and roughly twenty chickens. All but one goat, the duck and the cat have since made their way to their new home but the farm structures remains so it not out of the realm of possibility to own few. Perhaps a few ironic named farm animas may make their way back on over the years like a pig named Bacon and a sheep named Chops. I should add, I grew up in a New York suburb and my wife in a Detroit one. We don't know a thing about farming. The closest thing to a garden i've ever had is a Click-and-Grow hydroponic in our apartment in the city. i call the super to get our light bulbs changed. This should be an interesting adventure to say the least and at best, a modern day Funny Farm but we couldn't be more excited. 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