Two paint horses, young fruit trees and a barn surround the log home on Andre and Yvonne Kedrowitsch’s burgeoningv10-acre farm.
The barn is under renovation and parts of the fence are new, but animals, land and family seem so endeared to one another that you wouldn’t know the couple moved to the Ringgold, Georgia home only seven months ago.
At the time, the couple was looking for a tract of at least 5 acres, but Yvonne was unsure if living in a log home would suit her. “My choice never would have been a formal home, but I was probably thinking more of a farmhouse,” she says.
The couple views the move to the farm as more than buying a new home. For Yvonne, who has survived non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and Andre, recently retired from law enforcement to spend more time with her, it is an open door to a more carefree lifestyle.
Prior to the move, the couple lived in New Jersey, but Yvonne, a Ringgold native, wanted to be near her family, and Andre wholeheartedly supported the move southward. “This was the last house we looked at,” says Andre, “and when we rounded the corner, I said, ‘I think we’ve found the house we’re looking for.'”