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Re: Today's meeting at Property #2...

By: micro in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Fri, 18 Feb 22 2:41 PM | 22 view(s)
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it sounds marvelous! I am somewhat envious but alas, my wife is not much of an adventurer and likes to be close to her family, (siblings and of course our children and all our neces and nephews) We could field a few baseball teams easily.

I am the head of the whole clan as my brothers in law who were older no longer are on this earth. So I keep an eye on my sisters in law and chide the kids (who don't need require much prompting) and make sure their lives go on and living conditions get any upgrades or repairs so things remain good for them.

I am pretty good electrician and plumber. If I need extra muscle I get one of the muscle bound nephews to help. Their good boys who love their mother. And they help me if I need muscle as well as my son in law and grandson. So its a close family who interacts all the time.

The females all get together weekly for lunch at a small family restaurant that makes sandwich's on freshly made bagels or croissants. Cool place and does a thriving business. Every Thursday is luncheon and famaily together there. The owners know us..

You have a LOT of acreage there and drop dead gorgeous natural forest. I would say you got the best of the four places ultimately.

People pay money to be able to go hike in undisturbed forests like you have and get away..

I am envious of your dreams coming to fruition and I look forward to seeing that plantation of yours in the future.

All I have to do now is get the right knee replaced so I can walk on that leg normally without aid after the Hip gets back to "normal" and I can use it without noticing it..

I am getting a new set of knee Gel injections soon. Hope to start that next week with my ortho. That may give me some relief there.

Anyway, you guy's patience and long range planning is a text book case in my view that could be an example and model for others..

Thank You for the welcome to come. I do hope to take you up on it as I love to see other parts of the countru while miz micro does not like driving outside the county... But I love to travel and see other parts of this country.... Hopefully I will get these minor setbacks behind and get strong enough again to do just that.


BTW, I have lost a decent amount of weight the last month. Its a great start on a downward trend. My appetite has been adjusted and I do not need nor want half as much as I did before and I have pretty well discontinued snacking as well.

It is working.. I will never weigh again what I did in my 20's but the goal is to get within 20 pounds and I am only 25 pounds from that. I will get there..

Sorry and apologies for length .


Likely last post of day for me...

See you all later...

micro

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Re: Today's meeting at Property #2...
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Fri, 18 Feb 22 12:33 AM 		Msg. 29458 of 60008

micro:

Re: “Ya done good and should unashemedly be proud of what you guys have accomplished. Great job youngun.. (relatively speaking).”Thanks. Getting this property was pure luck. My desire was to get about 100 acres of farmable land. I figured I'd get something along the Connecticut River. I was dependent at that time on the homebuilder I'd already used, so I told the realtor to limit the search to properties with 15 miles of my builder's house.

There weren't many such properties. Just four, I think. My wife and I looked at them all. Two were sold by the time our realtor could show them to us. I didn't like them anyway. The third was clear cut forest with stumps everywhere... about as unfarmable as a flat, treeless piece of land could possibly be. The fourth was the one we bought. Most of it is wilderness, but 18 acres are clear and the soil is REALLY good. Do you remember my complaint about all the rocks in my current land? There are almost no rocks in that field. I walked the whole thing jabbing it with a pickaxe. Land that isn't a struggle to work is a rare thing in "The Granite State."

Like I said, luck. I didn't get the hundred acre farm I thought I wanted but I did get nearly that much of beautiful farm AND wilderness, surrounded by a few thousand other wilderness acres that I am free to roam if I so choose. That's one of the nice things about New Hampshire: Most undeveloped land is unposted and therefore freely available for the public to hike, snowmobile, drive, fish and hunt.

So, although the land has a tiny town within walking distance on one side, there's a mile or more of forest on its other sides. It's the perfect arrangement for a person who wants to feel completely isolated without actually being completely isolated.

I hope you'll visit some day! Plan on staying a while.

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