In the beginning...

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...but where does this story begin?
All the men love to hunt. Duck hunting, goose hunting, deer hunting,  pheasant hunting, elk hunting, red stag hunting, coyote hunting, possum hunting, armadillo hunting, butterfly hunting...it doesn't matter. They like to hunt. *No butterflies were harmed in the making of this #Post.

For most of the guys, duck hunting is their favorite.

Ever since I married into the family the guys have done most of their hunting on a piece of property in Arkansas that belonged to some friends (Hi, House family!). The property was over an hour away from our home. That never really deterred them. In the Fall-duck hunting season, Nick would roll out of bed at 3am to get dressed & go 15 minutes south to Jimmy's house where the entire crew would load up all their paraphernalia and then drive over an hour to duck hunt. Duck hunting paraphernalia includes about 3 layers of clothing, waders (overalls with boots), guns, ammo, dogs, stands, canoe, ATVs, and duck decoys.
I guess this would get tiresome. The hauling of all the crap er, I mean duck paraphernalia.

Approximately four years ago, the boys had talked with the family friends, the Houses, and they knew that the land was going on the market to be sold. I guess this was when they decided to come up with another plan.
I think the plan may have started off with them wanting to find land they could use for duck hunting that was in Mississippi. Once they started looking at property & realizing the size they were going to need & what that would cost then the plan changed to - someone needs to live on the property.

Probably 2+ years ago we found a plot in Senatobia, Ms that everyone loved. It was great. I loved that it was 3 minutes from the interstate and I could get to everything -stores, school, church very easily. Well....after a long interim of time & a seller that decided to back out, we had to start all over.

We looked at several other options. Some we all really liked...with rolling hills. There was one that looked like a scene out of Little House on the Prairie. Well, that one was stolen out from under us in a bidding war.

That leads us to Tunica. Mind you, that all the other properties we had considered up to this point was no more than a 20-25 minute drive from where we lived -the north part of DeSoto county.
When Tunica was put on the table, my first question was "where is that?"
For my local readers, I always get Tunica & Tupelo confused. I thought that surely they weren't trying to move me 1.5 hour away.
Oh, just 45 minutes away? Is that all?

The boys took multiple tours of the property. I think they even hunted on it before the land was purchased. Nick asked me several times if I wanted to go down to "the land".  My answer was "NOPE!" For several reasons but two of them being that 1)y'all keep showing me land we are never going to have 2)you can't possibly expect me to live way out there.

If I recall correctly there was a family meeting & it was all agreed upon that if the land was purchased then folks would/could move out there and build their homes. Tunica land was purchased in November. 2014.
I didn't go to the land until after it was purchased.
Oh well.
Welcome to Tunica Eddlemons.