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My family and I live in the middle of nowhere on a small farm. Our closest neighbors are monks at the Holy Cross Abbey. Our land is on the Shenandoah river...lush and green in the summer, and beautifully crisp in the winter. We have a large collection of animals (the menagerie) including: 2 dogs (ike and skillet), n cats (where n is greater than 3), a rabbit (moustache), 2 chinchillas (chin chin and chilli), 2 goats (louis and lucy), a quarter horse (flight), a pony (guthrie), and 2 peacocks (picasso and petunia-too). Sometimes we have chickens (in between chicken massacrees).

Our house was built in 1760 or so (nobody is really sure), and was once part of a creek-driven indistrial complex before the big flood of 1870. We built a timber frame barn a few years ago on the property, which we expect to last for at least 200 years. In the summer, we have a large garden in the bottom land. In the winter, we light fires and work in the kitchen.

McGraw House

We once lived in Loudoun County, but it grew so fast we were pushed over the hill. It's still possible to escape suburbia in Virginia, but it takes some trying. Our log cabin in Leesburg looked like this. As you can tell, we prefer old houses.