How we ended up in Accident

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A drizzly rain this morning when I walked.  

No wind though and it was 60 degrees.

Very quiet around town with it being Memorial Day.

The only people I saw were 2 fisherman.

Walked around both of the cemeteries and the ball park, all a few times each.

Up and down a few side streets too.

There is something else in happening in town that I can watch the progress on.

A new street is being made and rumor has it that a couple of houses

will be built there.

Starts there on the left

and it goes behind the little cemetery and comes out here.

This cemetery is just a little one along the road.

Or maybe it will be a dead end up there by the digger.

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Debby, you asked how we came to live here in our little town of Accident.

I'll try to make it brief but don't know if I'll succeed.

We traveled across the country in an RV years ago and always

had our eye on where we would like to retire.

Boiled it down to wanting somewhere on the east side of the country.

Not too cold and not hot and we wanted a good bit of land.

We checked out land in Pennsylvania, New York, and West Virginia,

but nothing seemed exactly right.

I could have lived anywhere but Ken had a vision of the land he

wanted and it just wasn't coming up.

We were living in Howard County in Maryland because that's where Ken worked.

Back in 2010 we went on a vacation to Deep Creek Lake.

We rented a house on the lake for a week.

Loved the area and drove around looking things over and thought

how nice it would be to buy some land here.

On one of those drives we ended up driving though Accident about 15 miles or

so away from Deep Creek.

I remember driving though town and loving it.

When we got back from vacation we started looking on line

for property in Garrett County, Maryland.

We found a few properties that sounded promising,

got in touch with a realtor and went to look at them.

Again nothing seemed quite right.

Then we hit upon an 8 acre piece of property in the woods

just out of Accident and we just knew it was the right one.

There was another 8 acres for sale right next to it so we bought that too.

A few years later another 5 acres went on the market so that became ours too

and that gave us our 21 acres.

At first we decided to stay in Howard County when Ken retired.

We had moved to a townhouse in Ellicott City.

We liked being close to restaurants and shopping.

We planned on just going up to our property which we named

Happy Trails on weekends to just get away from the crowds.

We built a tractor barn and were in the process of building a little cabin

just for us to use on weekends.

After Ken retired we were spending more and more time up at

Happy Trails and dreaded going back to the crowds.

We were up here one weekend and I walked into town

and saw a house for sale that was just perfect.

So we put up the townhouse for sale and moved to the house

in town.

We lived in town for 5 years and would go to Happy Trails and

have fun making paths and building the cabin.

Then one day we decided to have a house built on our property.

Ken drew up the plans and we found a builder (Ronnie from church)

and had our house built up here at Happy Trails.

Happy here and never looked back.

David and Liz live in a cabin on our property just

a quarter of a mile up the road

which makes it the perfect place for all of us.

Hope you enjoyed reading about how we ended here.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hope you had a wonderful day.

HappyK 🙂

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