txdon
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Eddie, on that last pic it looks like he is pointing at a snake!
So cool livin' in the country...
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txdon said:Eddie, on that last pic it looks like he is pointing at a snake!
Maybe thats why Eddie is wearing shoes?
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txdon,
That was my thought exactly.
That was my thought exactly.
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Nope, no snakes in my pond, or I wouldn't be in it!!!! hahaha I don't remember what Peyton was pointing at in the picture either. I know we were in very shallow water and he was still pretty nervous about it.
Even with snakes, bees, wasps and fire ants, it's still a million times nicer living out in the country then in town. We went to one of the small towns in the area for Halloween last week, and both Steph and I comented on how close together the homes are, and how everyone is right on top of each other. These were half acre lots!!!!!! hahaha
Eddie
Even with snakes, bees, wasps and fire ants, it's still a million times nicer living out in the country then in town. We went to one of the small towns in the area for Halloween last week, and both Steph and I comented on how close together the homes are, and how everyone is right on top of each other. These were half acre lots!!!!!! hahaha
Eddie
I like living in the country so much I'm about to dump my business and never go into town again. I'll just let my wife work and I'll stay here and only run the farm. I might even get rid of the internet and the TV here. The internet is my biggest problem. Since this is where I get all my business through my two web sites. I have run into some real nut cases online and that is a big turn off.
I'm retired from the Military, spent a lot of years sailing around the oceans in one branch and driving trucks in another. I'm about ready to relax on the farm while I'm still young enough to enjoy it. My idea of relaxing is different form most people but I enjoy it. I just need to keep busy and work on the farm. Not having to deal with other humans as much as possible. I think I stood in one too many chow lines with hundreds of people in front of me.
Really, if fuel prices weren't costing us every spare cent we have right now, I'd have closed up shop a long time ago. Diesel has gone up 40 cents here just in the last week. Some of my customers are wondering why I am so slow shipping their stuff back after I work on it. It's because I am riding my horse to town when I go to the post office as much as possible. It is only 5 or 6 miles each way but try that with a load of guns packed in heavy boxes and strapped to the saddle bags going down the highway and You'll know why it takes a while. It's so good though that I do live in a place where I can have my own horses and other animals. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I really do need to buy a nice wagon and train my horses to drive. It would be so much easier. I might even grow out my beard and join the Amish.
I'm retired from the Military, spent a lot of years sailing around the oceans in one branch and driving trucks in another. I'm about ready to relax on the farm while I'm still young enough to enjoy it. My idea of relaxing is different form most people but I enjoy it. I just need to keep busy and work on the farm. Not having to deal with other humans as much as possible. I think I stood in one too many chow lines with hundreds of people in front of me.
Really, if fuel prices weren't costing us every spare cent we have right now, I'd have closed up shop a long time ago. Diesel has gone up 40 cents here just in the last week. Some of my customers are wondering why I am so slow shipping their stuff back after I work on it. It's because I am riding my horse to town when I go to the post office as much as possible. It is only 5 or 6 miles each way but try that with a load of guns packed in heavy boxes and strapped to the saddle bags going down the highway and You'll know why it takes a while. It's so good though that I do live in a place where I can have my own horses and other animals. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I really do need to buy a nice wagon and train my horses to drive. It would be so much easier. I might even grow out my beard and join the Amish.
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Instead of a wagon maybe you could make one of those devices that the western American Indians used. Its roughly triangular but has trees like a a carriage or wagon but has no wheels. The area where the cargo goes can be a skin or lumber and the rear end skids along.
BTW I looked at your website...you do nice work! Nice sound effects too.
BTW I looked at your website...you do nice work! Nice sound effects too.
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I have always longed to live in a rural area.
Not so much a farm or ranch, but more in the wilderness. As a boy and a young man, I spent many many hours days weeks camping and hunting each year. I found a small parcel that fit the bill near an area where there is very little commerce and will probably never be developed into anything more than what is is now. It is just outside a small town of 2,000 people and near a National Park so progress is limited due to that.
I'm building a log home on it that should be completed by next Summer of 2008. Then I'm moving up there for good. It's great to be able to hunt and fish on your own land with no traffic or shopping malls anywhere in sight. Only the majestic mountains and lakes nearby. You can do anything you want without a neighbor seeing what you're doing. I'll be completely off grid with only satellite and cellular for communication with the outside world. Man, I am really looking forward to next year and the future.
Not so much a farm or ranch, but more in the wilderness. As a boy and a young man, I spent many many hours days weeks camping and hunting each year. I found a small parcel that fit the bill near an area where there is very little commerce and will probably never be developed into anything more than what is is now. It is just outside a small town of 2,000 people and near a National Park so progress is limited due to that.
I'm building a log home on it that should be completed by next Summer of 2008. Then I'm moving up there for good. It's great to be able to hunt and fish on your own land with no traffic or shopping malls anywhere in sight. Only the majestic mountains and lakes nearby. You can do anything you want without a neighbor seeing what you're doing. I'll be completely off grid with only satellite and cellular for communication with the outside world. Man, I am really looking forward to next year and the future.
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I have a human interest story to go along with this thread.
In 2005 my Mom was in the hospital a pretty good while. My sisters and I stayed with her as she couldn't take that good a care of herself. Now anyone knows that sitting in a hospital all day long gets old fast. I was getting all soppy and got to thinking of an old friend from high school days that I had lost tract of. I couldn't find his Ph# but did recoginize his parents name. I called them and they said it would tickle him to death to here from me . They gave me his #, so I called him up. He had just gotten out of the hospital himself and wanted me to come over right then. I went to see him and found out he had Lupus(sp). He said after 3 weeks in a hospital bed the first thing he did on getting home was pee in his driveway.
Vickie and I were going on a 2 week vacation starting on that Fri. so he and I made plans to get together as soon as we got back. we were going to go out to breakfast and then look up some other old friends.
Vickie and I got back 2 weeks later, but it was a week to late to ever see my old friend again. I felt bad for weeks till his wife called and told me that planning to take the day looking up old friends made his last week the best he had had in months. She didn't have any idea he would go that fast and neither did I. It proves that you shouldn't put stuff off .
I live out in the boonies and never pee off the porch without thinking of Kenny. I still miss him, but am glad We got back together when we did. Later, Nat
In 2005 my Mom was in the hospital a pretty good while. My sisters and I stayed with her as she couldn't take that good a care of herself. Now anyone knows that sitting in a hospital all day long gets old fast. I was getting all soppy and got to thinking of an old friend from high school days that I had lost tract of. I couldn't find his Ph# but did recoginize his parents name. I called them and they said it would tickle him to death to here from me . They gave me his #, so I called him up. He had just gotten out of the hospital himself and wanted me to come over right then. I went to see him and found out he had Lupus(sp). He said after 3 weeks in a hospital bed the first thing he did on getting home was pee in his driveway.
Vickie and I were going on a 2 week vacation starting on that Fri. so he and I made plans to get together as soon as we got back. we were going to go out to breakfast and then look up some other old friends.
Vickie and I got back 2 weeks later, but it was a week to late to ever see my old friend again. I felt bad for weeks till his wife called and told me that planning to take the day looking up old friends made his last week the best he had had in months. She didn't have any idea he would go that fast and neither did I. It proves that you shouldn't put stuff off .
I live out in the boonies and never pee off the porch without thinking of Kenny. I still miss him, but am glad We got back together when we did. Later, Nat
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Remember, Every time one of you city folk decide to move to the country it brings that country a little closer to being a city. We Native Mainers enjoyed having that country life and then came all the city folk trying to change things, Now the city folks out number the Natives in this state and we have more rules, more crime and more of you. This post my get censured but this really is the way we feel. I grew up on 200 acres of land being able to Rom. Now I can't afford a 5th of that land because people from away pay much more than WE natives can afford to buy land.
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EddieWalker
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I never understood this mentality. You say you are a native and were there first, but somebody was always there before you. What makes your claim more significant then anybody elses? Does the family with more time there then you have more rights to the land then you do? Does the family that you bought the land from have more rights to it then you do?
Land values increase because people are willing to pay more for it. If you have the land and sell it for as much as you can get for it, congratulations. If you don't want to sell your land, then that's your right too, but to tell anybody where the cannot live because you want to claim that you are more important then they are and have more rights to live there then anybody else is just plain wrong.
If it's too expensive for you to live there, don't blame the people paying the asking price for it, blame those so called natives for selling it. There is still allot of very affordable land all over this country. There are also jobs available all over the place too. It's your choice as to where you live and it probably has allot to do with what those "city" folks have done to improve your area that keeps you there.
Eddie
Land values increase because people are willing to pay more for it. If you have the land and sell it for as much as you can get for it, congratulations. If you don't want to sell your land, then that's your right too, but to tell anybody where the cannot live because you want to claim that you are more important then they are and have more rights to live there then anybody else is just plain wrong.
If it's too expensive for you to live there, don't blame the people paying the asking price for it, blame those so called natives for selling it. There is still allot of very affordable land all over this country. There are also jobs available all over the place too. It's your choice as to where you live and it probably has allot to do with what those "city" folks have done to improve your area that keeps you there.
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Land values increase because people are willing to pay more for it. If you have the land and sell it for as much as you can get for it, congratulations. If you don't want to sell your land, then that's your right too, but to tell anybody where the cannot live because you want to claim that you are more important then they are and have more rights to live there then anybody else is just plain wrong.
Hoorah,
I feel the same way Eddie, but here's a flip side.
It's funny out in my town the ones who've lived there all their lives are trying to get more commerce into it, expand and make it more modern. It's the ones who have moved there that want to keep it as rural as it is. It's a big deal because those of us who moved there don't want it to become like where we just moved from. It's a good thing it's surrounded by the Park and BLM so there's little chance of mass expansion in the near future.
Hoorah,
I feel the same way Eddie, but here's a flip side.
It's funny out in my town the ones who've lived there all their lives are trying to get more commerce into it, expand and make it more modern. It's the ones who have moved there that want to keep it as rural as it is. It's a big deal because those of us who moved there don't want it to become like where we just moved from. It's a good thing it's surrounded by the Park and BLM so there's little chance of mass expansion in the near future.
dooleysm
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Very well said Eddie.
Sigarms
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Our country is still very young.
If we actually survive as a country another 200 years, well, you want to talk about the going rate of property...
It's called population growth and supply and demand, and we aren't slowing down any on the growth part.
If we actually survive as a country another 200 years, well, you want to talk about the going rate of property...
It's called population growth and supply and demand, and we aren't slowing down any on the growth part.
stumpfield
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Land use to be free and don't belong to anyone... Things have changed and will continue to evolve. BTW, I don't consider anyone a native in maine unless you are a Wabanaki. Just my believe... Don't forget some of those city folks are the sons and daughters of rural folks want to return to rural living.
Over here, I saw those claimed to be native/locals are cashing in and brought in the developers to chop up their land into pieces. Nothing wrong with that in this free market economy. The good things is that I also see country loving folks (doesn't matter where they were from...) put their land into conservation. Even in California, land doesn't really cost a lot. Devleopment potentials and rights cost a lot! A friend of mine just donated the development right of his 200ac ranch that he could sell for millions by placing it as conservation land. He put his money where his mouth is to preserve rural living. My 120ac and some of my neighbors are already in a land conservation area and only allow to build 1 home per parcel with no possibility of a subdivision to keep it as rural as it can be. I can't wait to enjoy livin' in the country....
Over here, I saw those claimed to be native/locals are cashing in and brought in the developers to chop up their land into pieces. Nothing wrong with that in this free market economy. The good things is that I also see country loving folks (doesn't matter where they were from...) put their land into conservation. Even in California, land doesn't really cost a lot. Devleopment potentials and rights cost a lot! A friend of mine just donated the development right of his 200ac ranch that he could sell for millions by placing it as conservation land. He put his money where his mouth is to preserve rural living. My 120ac and some of my neighbors are already in a land conservation area and only allow to build 1 home per parcel with no possibility of a subdivision to keep it as rural as it can be. I can't wait to enjoy livin' in the country....
riptides
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stumpfield said:
Curious as to why you think land conservations are a good thing? How does it work in your area, are not the tax payers owning up to putting their monies in a pot that is available? Are their restrictions per lot size, location, number? Do you get tax credits in return? Lower assessments?
Trying to understand how it works. Thanks.
-Mike Z.
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It's a good thing if you want to keep the area AG and rural. I'm not an expert on this. There are various types of land conservation here. My land is in the williamson's act. I believe it's 100ac minimum size. You volumnteer to place your land as conservation area. It's a 10-year contract between landowner and the state. Automatically renew every 10 years if you do nothing. There are lots of land-use restrictions goes with it mainly to perserve the land as AG land or just open space. You basically gave up the development right of your land. You can't subdivide, build a mansion or turn the place into a city..etc. You only allow to build 1 home per parcel no larger than 2500sqft. Just imagine what your neighborhood looks like if everyone's lot is 100ac or larger and only has 1 house on it......riptides said:
As you can see, these restrictions will greatly reduce the value of your land from a development and real estate speculation standpoint. The benefit is lower assessment value and you pay less property tax. No tax credit or anything else. You just get a lower property tax bill. The state will reimburst the county for the loss of property tax revenue.
If you plan to keep your land forever, don't want to sell or develop... and you don't want developer knocking on your door every other day.... it's win win situation. You can still sell your land. But you have a very limited number buyers and only those commited to rural living not someone want to build a mansion or chop it up into little pieces.
riptides
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stumpfield said:
Thanks for sharing that, seems states all do it a little differently. My county has various easement programs available, and a purchase of developers rights.
The bad thing is, the easements and PDR runs with the land. You can get monies or tax credits depending on what you do, but the options for your land are restricted like ----forever.
While it looks good in the short term, HELLO, even I have my prices, if you know what I mean.
-Mike Z.
