In 2002, I realized a lifelong dream in purchasing my own 6-acre place just 23 miles northeast of Richmond, VA. I'd no longer need to board and Shiloh could come home! My dad designed a supercool house with a view from my bedroom windowseat of the front pasture and we moved in just before Hurricane Isabel struck in September 2003. I was shell-shocked by the destruction, but my now-husband Shan fetched a chainsaw and generator from his North Carolina relatives and we leapt into the never-ending cycle of grass cutting and tending our "farm"