Wow! I wouldn't buy that property even if it was a bargain price for 2 reasons. #1. Snakes, spiders and scorpions. #2. I would hate to be mistaken for the 'people' that inhabited the place before me. No property is worth my life. Although, it does come with a nice neighbor and a cranky donkey.
Maybe that's why they want so much for it! I mean, who wouldn't want to live next to Pearl and Buddy???
The ***** just figured out yesterday that he's missing 10 sheep! He rode around asking people in the area if anyone has seen them!!A weird happening...10 of the 12 ewes got out, ran down the road on to the place at the very end of our road! Their entrance is through a relatives place on the next road. They escaped, will probably be eaten by coyotes! Two ewes and the ram are left with the two cows. I don't hold much hope for the escapees, they are loud and lost, but out of the bad place!!
They escaped 9 days ago! I hope he doesn't replace them with more animals!!
Yummmm, Lambchops. OOPS.The ***** just figured out yesterday that he's missing 10 sheep! He rode around asking people in the area if anyone has seen them!!
Lamb chops for coyotes!!
When I was coming home the husband was at his mailbox so I stopped to say hi (that's code for being nosy)!! He said he finally got his wife to start coming out of the house, and then she got chiggers!
She told him if he wanted to continue to live there he better have her some pavement!! So today the concrete trucks are there, took them all last week to get the ground ready!I work on the farm & have not had a red bug in years. Seem they forgot to google.So the city neighbors to my north (through the woods) are having concrete poured around their entire house, 40 ft wide!!!
I guess, if mama donkey is close enough you already know that the song "Sweetly sings the donkey at the break of day" is true.People bought the 50 acres behind me. Sold 20 to another neighbor. The 30 acres is long, entrance on another road. The previous owners were great neighbors for 33 years, mom and dad died and the sons sold it! Nice couple about 40ish, from the city. He does land clearing and needed a place out this way for his equipment, building an equipment barn near the entrance. They want to build a house about 400+ feet behind us! Will not build for a few years because of wood prices he said! We don't have any houses that we can see, will be a big change. The wife didn't seem too happy, didn't like the fact that there are wild animals in the country. Curious to see what unfolds. They bought mama donkey with the land, had to let them know that they have to provide food and water for her. Since there is no well on the back part of the property they will be paying me to keep her watered. Said they will get her some hay!! Should be interesting.......
I read this after I posted my post about the donkey.I started this thread about the people who bought the 50 acres behind us. The front of the long narrow property is on another road. They do dirt work and built a large building up front to house their equipment. They are city folk, and made a lot of costly mistakes. They put the building where a large stock tank had been filled in, even though another neighbor told them about it. The slab has cracked and sunk. They also forgot to put the plumbing in for the office area! Luckily they have put off building a house behind us for now! We also are getting new neighbors to our north, our property lines meet in the woods behind my house! On my way out this morning I stopped at the neighbors on the other side of them. The environmental officer was there, I know him and that neighbor so I stopped. The new neighbors called them in because they have some non running trucks in their front field, haha, totally legal. The new neighbor said he doesn't want his dogs getting into any leaking fluids from the trucks. They got the animal containment law explained to them!! The newbies also asked the environmental officer what can be done about the smell and noise from the horses across the road
She's long gone, happy on a ranch in Oklahoma!
I just put one drop of Oil of Citronella on each sock!
I think real estate is just crazy and ridiculous everywhere. I got a deal because a neighbor was going to sue HUD because it was vacant for so long, and HUD needed to get rid of the property ASAP. I was talking to a neighbor who didn't realize how little I had paid for my property, now valued at about 30 times more than what I paid. Everyone tells me I stole this property. Nope. It was all done legally. I was in the right place at the right time.
Wow ...hope next people will be good and quiet ones
At least they were asleep when I got home from work. Heck, the husband was a trucker. That always cracked me up! Man chose his profession wisely.
Time to set up a piggery as close to their house as possible.
We have way too many wild pigs!
Wild pigs you say? got a smoker? we can hunt them year-round here as they are considered a pest animal. I love wild pork! it's so much better than factory-farmed meat and it makes the best pork chili you ever ate!
Eastern Hemlock or Deodar Cedar are good trees for that also. Wide at the bottom to hide you, but open at the top to let the sun in, with Azaleas, Abelia & Hosta around the base of the trees.
I moved to this place in 2004 and drove to meet the people next door. They were worried and hovering over a mama cow with a difficult birth. Well..I was the CEO of a large cattle company so knew a bit about cattle. I've ranched them in a few countries. I pulled my ute nose close to mama and took the ship rope the lady was holding from her. "She heard" you can reach in, attach it...and pull out the calf. I got my hands in there, looped it around the fetlocks...held the front feet pointing in the right direction...had her attach the other end to my winch...told her to "press the button"and...POP! She cooked me and her hubby quite a dinner that next Sunday! Great friends, now. The best.Ranch across the road has weened calves! Slicks to the north are dying!!
You're right, Magus. Wild pork's great! I know a guy that loves hunting wild hogs. He brought home about six or eight little critters...and...fed them on milk from his dairy. I regularly bought the deli cuts, sausage and salami he cured. He's a Calabrese like me, of course! Now that you mention it...I'm gonna give him a shout....
Get the wild tenderloin! Nothing beats it with fried apples, pork meal gravy and cat head biscuits.
Yes! The city slicks to my north are not liking the rather loud mamma cows on the ranch across the road after calf weening! The 50 acres behind me is still for sale for 2 million dollars, no one has even looked at it! So it's nice and peaceful there!
The single guy to my south is letting the couple down the end of the road graze their cow and bull on his 4 acre pasture. They are the ones who got their donkeys taken away! The bulls hooves are long and curled, he can hardly walk! No help from animal control!
On a good note, the donkeys are still at the rescue facility and doing great!
He took the pull behind camper, no telling where he went or where his half of the kids are. They had a cow and a bull that they stuck in single guy's pasture, hopefully he has them removed, they can hardly walk because their hooves are so long! So I'll be doing a little homework on how much they want for their house and five acres! Updates as it unfolds!!
YAY, the idiots down the end of the road are moving! The couple who had their donkeys taken away because they don't take care of their animals!! They are next to 'single guy' to my south. So she moved to her mom and dad's two counties away with her half of the kids, they have ELEVEN between them, five are her's!!
It appraised for just under 800,000$!! Just BAM, sold for 2 million!!
