Haha I know, I was very pleased that I could still work in front of a window! I think it my be my new criteria for finding new homes after this! and this view is really something hard to beat
Ten years ago I lost the sense of family. I’ll spare you the details🌿. The task left to me was to find my soul family... Love of land, animals, music, food, self. It means going within and stretching out and making peace...we’re all figuring it out together:). Always enjoy spending time with you🌿🌿🌿
Girl it looks like your home... I love living on the water I am a water baby have been all my long life grew up in the city landed here embrace it what your looking for is right in front of you. Take a look Blessed Be
The footage with Hazel is making me cry, she's so cute. I'm currently searching too. But I have to wait on my family to also be ready. My health prevents me from living alone. Searching for a home and property is difficult in...current times. But I'm sure we'll find the right place.
Hi Daughter of Old, I live on a island in the Puget Sound too. I've lived in the Seattle area for about 40 years, originally from outside Phila. Seattle used to be a nice small city, I've only lived on this island for a little over a year. Love it here. Not quite as remote as I would like it but it's a great place and I've started a great veggie garden that far exceeded my expectations this summer. Peace, Love and happiness.
Watching you finding your place gives me hope. I feel so lost at the place where I am now and my heart aches to find peace. Watching you brings tears to my ears. Tears of happyness and hope. Wishing you nothing but the best 🖤 Lot's of love from Germany
Kudos to your mom (and perhaps other family members) for being such supportive and helpful parent! A safe and secure base/connection is indeed the key to grow and explore the wonders around us! 💚💚💚
I was born in Germany. I came to the US in 1984, to my husband's home state of Alabama. We lived there for 2 years. I loved all the flowers, vegetables and fruits you could grow there because of the warm weather. I joined the Air Force and had 6 weeks of basic training in Texas. I was then stationed in California for 10 years. Afterwards, we bought a home outside of the base but I never felt at peace there. In 2000 we moved to Tacoma WA. I loved the climate but we first lived in an Apartment, which I despised. We bought another home a bit outside of the city, but again, my soul was not at peace. One day, my husband told me he seen a home for sale in a rural area and he wanted me to go see it. I was hesitant because it meant a very long commute for me. We are also a biracial couple and rural areas are not always safe for us. The first time going to view the place, I got lost. Once I pulled up and noticed all the trees, the silence, the mountain view, my entire spirit exhaled and my soul finally found peace. We lived here 15 years and I could never be anywhere else. I hope you find your place as well. You will know it when you feel it in your soul.
Hazel is so cute. Take it easy one day at a time as you have been through a lot already in your life. Any pinch of happiness you must take. Love your videos.
Just forgot to say you have such a remarkable quiet power. I can hear it in your voice. Like abundant blossom on a spring day. Take care Alan Cook England
You have a beautiful poets soul, a peaceful heart, and an adorable companion in Hazel. You are blessed, and you are blessing us with sharing yourself with us.
I had your feeling of being proud of myself for driving across the country to live in Colorado for one year even though it didn't work out on the job front. It showed me that I was an independent spirit. 😇 This past weekend I drove up to Windham, New York and I was thinking about you and what you were saying about nature's songs when I visited the Mountain Top Arboretum in nearby Tannersville. One of the trails I hiked was called "Spruce Glen" and this trail has the oldest peat bogs in the Catskill Mountains!! I felt like I walked right into a fairy forest with leprechauns!! I saw lots of shamrocks as well as spruce trees. The spruce tree beings felt serious and stern as they guarded the Catskill Mountains landscape. The leprechaun beings teased me as they led me a little off path as I felt enchanted by the forest 😊 A bird to my right guided me back to the trail so I could eventually cross the main trail and head back to my car. It was all so magical 🌠
It's so lovely to see you're back imparting your unique beauty to your videos. You are able to give what no one else can. I look forward to seeing you thrive. You have so much blessing to bestow to all of us. We appreciate you so very very much. God bless you. Alan Cook. England.
For so long I've thought of the US as a place of cities and commercialism, you've really opened up my eyes to how stunning and varied the natural landscapes over there are. I am in awe of how beautiful the footage you capture is.
you mentioned that you strated, and stopped filming, ...etc...i wanted to (try to ) back-feed you that...every picture...and the music..., in your vid, through it's harmony...and beauty... powerfully speaks volumes...not of the "what", as much as about the "how" of life... which is, for me, really the secret...to focus more on the how, and less be obsessed with the" what", which is often, more of a "Carrier" to the "how"... the "how", that through the mentioned harmony and beauty, helps "me" merge back HOME with the SILENCE, (which is the "real" ME...much more than words, thoughts... personality...) so...thank you so much for also, sometimes saying "nothing", in the most precious, beautiful way...no need to hold back ...☺💓 this is your greatest gift to me...💞💓...and i also LOVE to be inspired by your beautiful story of your inner beauty...
I love how you speak to your audience as though you're chatting with a good friend. You're a brave lady, and I wish you so much joy and good luck on your adventure! Looking forward to more vlogs from you! 🤗
You are living a life I always dreamed of and wanted to live but it wasn't meant to be. Family obligations and life happened. I love Hazel and glad she found you. Enjoy!
My favorite little coincidence, if that's what it is, is opening youtube and seeing that you've just posted a new video. You have every right to be very proud of yourself. I hope you find the place that feels most like home and in the meantime enjoy the journey of discovery.
Love your beautiful vlogs, Annie, thanks for sharing, sweet sensitive soul! This professional artist who also has a chronic illness, MS and lives by the sea in old Yankee New England wouldn't move from your great lovely cabin/cottage for anything in the world! Love that wonderful kitchen with a fireplace smack in the middle of it and love that front door, too, so creative looking! And surrounded by God's country like I am as well. Mother Nature calls! Not everyday someone can live like you or me! Count your blessings! You seem to be sort of a restless soul, a free spirit like myself, a wanderer, with the travel bug! Always good to leave home ,but always great to come home again~ blessed be!
I am from Washington, I live South of Seattle, but I am from up North. Deception Pass was where as teens we would drive through on our way to West Beach, or to climb the rocks over the ocean or hike through the woods along the coast. It is one of the most beautiful places I have been, and always will call home. This state has so much to offer, we have rainforests, ocean, lakes, mountains, grasslands and desert. I hope you get the chance to see a lot of it before you move on in your journey.
Oh my. I did not know that the straight back type german shepherds even existed any more. Glad to know there are breeders breeding the old fashion type german shepherd.
Welcome to Washington! I hope you manage to stay through the Summer, our summers here are so beautiful. I live on Whidbey and also wanted to be in an area that would remain wild and wasn't going to be overtaken by people and strip malls. Because we have limited water on the Island it can't expand by much, so my 7-acre property can't be subdivided, meaning fewer people. Just a thought as you are looking for a place to call your forever home :-) Island living might be an opinion. Loved your vlog as always. helps ground me for the day!
I've been lucky to have always lived on acreage in BC and lived a rural lifestyle. My neighbours are all on 5 acre plots as am I. If I go into the city around lots of people, it feels restrictive. I'm just not used to having strangers around me. Just remember those who wander are not lost. Find peace and stay where your mind, heart and soul sing. Give Hazel a hug and a treat for me. 😀
Annie, it is so good to see you and hear from you again. I lived most of my life in Southern California in beach cities, and moved to Southern Oregon when it began to get way too crowded, and a lot of the locals were moving out. I truly love the place I live in now. Tho our govenor is just as wacked as Washington's, I am happy but beginning to be unsettled. My partner and I have decided to move, and there seems to be a growing trail to Idaho. So you may want to look there too. You will be having lakes and rivers not the ocean. I love little Hazel. You are her angel. She couldn't wish for a better mommy, and you will be very happy with her too. You are baking bread in this video, perhaps you could do a video on that. Blessings and Love to you. Your neighbors may be curious, wait til they hear you are a witch. Take care of your heart.
Whenever you do make it to Vermont I think you'll love it. It's super rural and the people here are amazing. The mountains are beautiful and people here really care about keeping things eco and taking care of the land.
Also searching for our next home. As soon as I find a house that interests me it's already sold. Looking for more land, no neighbors, etc. so I feel exactly the same way. Luckily, I do live a beautiful life, this move would just be the icing on the cake. Blessed Be and nose beeps to Hazel.
I was just thinking recently if you had more after your cross country vlog. It was exquisite, peaceful and introspective. I love solitude and am lucky enough to spend most of my days on our small horse farm working with the animals and trekking into the woods on foot, but new houses have been built stealing my sense of peace and privacy. I am a Calif. native, who has benefited, but felt out of place here in the southeast for over 30 years and hope to experience different areas and find MY place for my last years. I have a deep love of the NW and expect that is where it is. Thank you for expressing your heart and soul.
Living in a rural cottage has shaped my life in the most unexpected way... and coming here on RU-vid and seeing you document you journey in the most calming way, makes me realise just how blessed I am . Sometimes we spend too much time complaining about where we should be and what we should be and we miss out on the beauty in the season that we are. This is a gentle reminder that nothing is without purpose.🌄 Thank you for being beam of light in my life, you have no idea how much you have inspired me😥🤗💚
Thanks for the update, I just searched a week or two ago to see where you landed. Living now is kind of cool, not many know how to take care of themselves,we have always been different, people will eat anything and we get sick eating all the normal foods, we use cover crops in our gardens and plant right in them to grow our food, like a living mulch all year round. healthy soil healthy guts. healthy bacteria, healthy person, fermented hot peppers, sour crout make me happy, they say sour kraut is one of the things to remove glyphosate from your cells. Have you heard about the different acids plant roots make while growing to break down the soil and mycorrhizal fungi then feeds the root. monoculture can be improved with more plant roots feeding each other.
It´s so great to hear you talking about not giving up and settling for less because you wanted this lifestyle so much and there was no way you would settle for an other option, no matter how hard. That´s the right way to look at this, you were working with the law of attraction here and you are a wonderful example how it brings us to where we want to be. I really hope you will be able to find that place you want to live in forever. But don´t rush- I am 30 now and moved 3 times since I am 19, always from one end of the country to the other and also searching for what I would like. Since we do change over time our needs can change too so maybe what you will deem perfect right now could change later on and that´s okay too. We should enjoy each moment we have and make the best out of it. You are a very good example for that. Greetings from Germany!
So glad you have landed for a bit and very fortunate to be in a family home! Enjoy finding your special place! Where your heart sings is where you need to be! Listen and you will hear it whisper to you., "You are home"...Wherever it is! Blessings!
Thank you for sharing another vlog!! I am so happy that you are able to be on this new adventure! Hazel is so adorable and I am glad she is doing much better!
There's some beautiful views in Washington. Keep dreaming an go for it- you have a heart & soul of a Lion. Love the video sequences you put together. All the Best.
What a beautiful home, and the view is gorgeous, Thank you for sharing, We all get stuck now and then, it might take a little while to adjust, Hazel is lovely and will help keep you company, love watching your videos, this is my first time comenting, wishing you all the best take care, hugs from Australia 🥰💌
Love this video, and drone videos. I follow other people who live in Washington and it seems like such an amazing place. A lot of nature hikes / paths. Thanks for taking us along on your journey. I can't wait until you start sharing the different herbs / flora that you find in this new environment and incorporate it in your cooking.
You picked a wonderful state to live in. I live in Washington too & love it here. It's a state that has everything. I was born & raised in Seattle WA & been here all my life. It's a beautiful home with lots of wonderful places to visit & see. You'll have to find your place & you will.
“Finding a song that sings to my soul”. So glad you have found what your heart wants. And then you never know, maybe this is where you always want to be.
So happy to see Your vlog today Annie, it always warms my soul to see You and hear about Your new adventures. Also glad that Hazel found You to Love. 🙂
I love the coast over there. Perhaps when the summer comes, you might take the ferry over to the San Juan Islands. Friday Harbor is fun. You might also enjoy wandering around Orcas Island.
I'll be turning 41 this Friday, February 5th & I'd give almost anything to BE... & To Be Proud of where & who you are are right now! Seeing this is so inspiring & motivates me to not give up! ~🙏💙🙏Much Graditude~
Another beautiful location. It's so wonderful that Hazel and you found each other. She will become your most loyal friend and protector in no time. I will so look forward to your next videos, Blessings!
You're not stuck you're learning you're growing you're preparing to bloom. I read this on one of my RU-vid channels I listen to. Be patient with yourself be kind to yourself and everything will flow
I love how excited you are for the future. It's so easy to lose that, especially these days. 😌 P.S. Welcome to WA. I just moved back here myself from a much more rural place and have also been struggling with the amount of people, though I do love the nature of the NW.
I just spent 3 weeks in the Berkshires in Massachusetts and had the same feeling. The land spoke to my soul and the mountains whispered to me...this is home! You have been a great inspiration for me in considering leaving the city, thank you!
Wow Annie I love how happy you seem to be at this new place 💚 I know that feeling of lack of inspiration/ feeling stuck with creative work - especially as a RU-vidr it's hard when it hits you, as you want to upload a video every single week. But I think you're right - Just starting again is the best way to overcome it. The rest unfolds during the process. Have a beautiful week 💚 I'm looking forward to your future videos from this beautiful place 🥰
If the goal is to find a place far away from population boom, there's loads of backwoods lil towns in the mountains of Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia but sometimes the reality isn't always as great as the dream. I moved to a tiny TN town in the Powell Valley a while back for a several years to a big old Farmhouse with a mountain view, and while that was amazing it wasn't so fun having to drive 20 minutes one way just to get to a gas station 🙃 And forget about easy access to health-care, shopping, dining or even finding someone to do simple home repairs. I'm pretty happy to be back in my small KY town where I'm surrounded by nature, but still have easy, close access to all the necessities of life including my family.
Your gentle energy and knowing you also deal with health is so much appreciated and helpful today. Helps with your music too. Reminder More is possible . Thank you. I also am searching for powerful, peaceful, harmonious, healthy home and life
You inspire me so very much,to keep working hard towards my dreams. Which are similar to yours💚find that forever home that speaks to me. At 50,I’m going to keep working & someday find it! Thank you for being you! Thank you for your inspiration & thank you for being genuine!
Your videos are so full of beauty and soul, I love them! I’m so glad I found your channel. The “mountains singing to your soul” is exactly what I experienced when I moved to the Olympics here in Washington. Some days I still can’t believe I made it happen.
A BIG change for you! Life is an adventure...I read once, somewhere...You are not a human having a spiritual experience but a spiritual being having a human experience...loved it! Carry on Annie & Hazel!!!
Oh I wish you could come to my home in Tasmania Australia. We live in beachside Burnie, which has way too many people for me but our family is on the West Coast which is very small and rural. Its industrial but clashes with the wild nature. Its an odd meeting place of ideologies but I can just sense the thrumming of the land there. Ready to take back what we have stolen from it. Its full of mountains, rainforest, a wild coastline that is the last stop before Antarctica, buttongrass plains and big beautiful lakes and waterfalls.
I love that you call Hazel *bean*. We have a mini doxie sausage named Jill but we call her *bean* too. Because she looks like a little dog jellybean when she curls up 🤣. Congrats on your new furbaby and Gluck on your journey ❤️🙌🏻 . Nova will miss you but the world deserves you! Thanks for bringing us on the adventure too 🥰
Annabelle, a beautiful name for a beautiful young lady with an old soul. Philosophical, serious, easy to love and hard to forget. I guess you could call me an Annabelle Fan.
Deception Pass is a gorgeous place. Hazel! Lovely! New beginnings :) Stay well. So happy to see your post once again. Give it time. Washington State is so beautiful. I’m just above you, in B.C. pretty little home you are in. God Bless. Yes, soul, of the land.....First Nations.... lots to study and learn.
As a born and raised Washington girl, I totally agree with the depth of how this place feels. I have lived and been to several other places and I am always called to be here. It's not for everyone, I always wonder about the feel of places I visit and I am not there long enough to really know for sure. Plenty to explore here. I can tell you there are areas of WA that are still rural, and will likely stay that way for sometime. Being near salt water and sea and also mountains is my favorite. We just bought a sail boat and I am looking forward to summer adventures through the puget sound.
It really is so different here and for sure! I feel like there are endless adventures to be had in this land and yeah I am hoping to explore those more rural pockets as well and hope for the best with them. I love the mountains and the sea - that is something so different from what I'm used to and it just gifts such a wonderful and beautiful type of energy and wow sailing through the sound would be incredible!
wonderful environment! And I am veeeery jelly of that view that you have while baking - I would definitely switch the view of the old stables for this beautiful seaside scenery once in a while :D
I hope you find the place that really makes your soul sing!! Congratulations on your newest family member, Hazel is truly gorgeous!! Thank you for sharing your amazing journey!! Blessed be xx
sounds like maybe you are listening to your heart! I think exploring and finding out about new areas is wonderful, I kind of know what you mean about listening and feeling the "soul" of where you are. being intuned! thanks for sharing! xoxo
When you said, "I never once told myself that I couldn't do it" it was as if you were speaking directly to me. As I approach the end of my life I've wondered if I would be able to achieve my dreams for the type of future I want and where I want to live it. It must be someplace where the land speaks to my soul. Sometimes I fear I may run out of time, but your words resonated w/ me and give me hope. I won't allow myself to doubt anymore. And I won't give up. May the energy of the Earth be a blessing to you!
I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your videos. I always have to watch them from begining to the very end. They relax me and make me feel so nurtured (also the ones from your other channel). The picture, your voice, you in the picture, your life story and the way you speak about it... it is so precious!
I'm rewatching this today. Since the first time, I've been hearing on the news that due to the ability to work from home more of those places you describe are being inundated with city dwellers moving to less-populated areas & driving up housing prices.
I’m glad you are going to take more time at different places to explore and see what “sings” to you the most. Before deciding a place to make yours. Love seeing Hazel as it reminds me of when my Luna (who I called bean too) was a small puppers! It’s seems like so many places are growing and it’s seems hard to find places that seem far away from the busyness. I hope in the next few years to find a place far off to live in the woods. For now I will vicariously through your content 💛 🌲
So glad Hazel is feeling better and that you are doing well. It takes a while to get to know a place - maybe all 4 seasons is the most fair. Stay brave and strong! xo
This is lovely, as are you lovely human. You seem at peace which is invaluable. I was so inspired by your content that I started studying at Chestnut (it is awesome). Blessed Be
It was good hearing from you. I have been wondering what was happening with you and your move. You should be proud that you are not afraid to follow your heart. But please be very careful. The North west looks beautiful. Looking forward to hearing from you again. Your new dog will be a great companion. How wonderful that you nurtured her back to health. Take care.
I enjoy loving you. Not romantic love, of course, but the love for a gentle, beautiful being. When we look back on life we find that the best days are the ones where we have happiness.
Love the sneek peaks of the home your grandfather built ... Saw some of it in your background....so earthy and lovely ... Like you , I am also on an adventure of looking for a place to live ... Searching for a place where it feels like home ...❤️❤️
In Australia we have song lines which are First Nations ancient pathways to sacred areas of importance. It's in their Dreamtime history and such a beautiful notoion. May you find your song lines to your sacred place to call home Annie and little Bean. Blessings 🙏✨
Love to see you in Washington. It has been my favorite place for some time now and where I like to vacation when I manage to get away from Ohio. I’m also delighted to hear you speak about its unique soul; I couldn’t agree more. There’s something maintained in those lands that is rich and wild, a spirit I haven’t found other places. Hope you enjoy your time there.
once again thanks for this beautiful put together video! looks like a magical place, I wish you a good start - power, insights and becoming a part of this setting of nature.
Perfect, nature is beautiful, it's fun to see how history goes, even if a lot is missing from the past, that of course makes you very curious about what's coming, there are tons of questions and even more questions, the little bean will surely be quickly develop, hope it is not too much work to be there early enough every morning to open the door, accidents can be foreseen here, your way of telling them the message and communication it conveys is really memorable, even if it is too early I'm kind of excited for a sequel
