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The simple life
Took this pic while driving through Colville, NZ...at first, I thought, gee, he had a bad divorce attroney...but the more I looked at it, the more I thought, lucky fellow..he doesn't need much and maybe has it all...
this big guy was my neighbor over the fence while staying on the farm...for some reason, this shot reminded me of America...at least the one I grew up in.
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I like the idea. All that he needs is a creek or lake to look at.
BTW what is that beastie?
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Looks like a Yak. We have a couple of Yak ranches close by in Northern Idaho. I have thought of trying the ground Yak, but at 5 dollars a pound it will just have to wait.
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Quite often I look at offloading most of my possessions and getting totally away from it all.
Luckily my wife has the same viewpoint.
So, in a few years we will be in the ozark mountains of south central Missouri... growing food, raising cattle, cutting firewood...
Self sufficiency, healthy living, and less reliance on monitary gain are what I am mostly looking forward to.
The beautiful area and laid back lifestyle are a bonus.
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Give me a van and a river and I would be a happy camper.
I have already decided that if my wife dies before me I will be packing up my stuff and heading to the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport Mississippi.
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We have a lotta Yak ranches in Richmond: Lots of high-end cell phones there.
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I can see myself in that little trailer. Just went to the cooler and got a Fosters. As I sit on the deck a small warm shower breaks out. Not enough to break the mood, or chase me inside. Just a few drops.... On top of the hill, behind the trailer a gigantic prehistoric rock teeters on it's wind worn base. A rain drop falls on the rock and upsets it's eon's old precarious balance. The rock rumbles down the hill picking up speed uncanally correcting it's path to the trailer. I hear a noise as I take a sip of Fosters. Must be thunder thinks I.....
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Quite often I look at offloading most of my possessions and getting totally away from it all.
Luckily my wife has the same viewpoint.
So, in a few years we will be in the ozark mountains of south central Missouri... growing food, raising cattle, cutting firewood...
Self sufficiency, healthy living, and less reliance on monitary gain are what I am mostly looking forward to.
The beautiful area and laid back lifestyle are a bonus.Jim
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Jim, that's a great thought/dream but in reality, it's a lot of year round hard work and unless you are in your very early 20's when you start this new life - it's a lifestyle that's very hard to adjust to if you try it much past your mid-30's. Having a nice piece of remote land with an old cabin, mobilhome or trailerhouse on it, a couple hours from your "main house", is a lot more enjoyable throughout your lifetime. I wish you well if you decide to give it a GO.
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We have a lotta Yak ranches in Richmond: Lots of high-end cell phones there.
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sip i didnt see you go by if you woulda stoped we woulda drank a beer!
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Isn't that the Clinton library??
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You merely exchange one set of problems for another. The question is do you find the new set of problems more manageable?
There is a good book "Sand County Almanac" by a famous naturalist/conservationist named Aldo Leopold (1887-1948). In it he notes that living on a farm helped him realize that heat does not come the furnace and breakfast does not come from the grocery.
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You merely exchange one set of problems for another. The question is do you find the new set of problems more manageable?
There is a good book "Sand County Almanac" by a famous naturalist/conservationist named Aldo Leopold (1887-1948). In it he notes that living on a farm helped him realize that heat does not come the furnace and breakfast does not come from the grocery.
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Is this response deep and contemplative, or dark and disturbed? Is a man without a woman like a fish without a bicycle?
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Is this response deep and contemplative, or dark and disturbed? Is a man without a woman like a fish without a bicycle?
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An old man without a woman is a hermit. A young man without a woman is a nut.
I cut wood, raise chickens, eat squirrel, have solitude: and miss evening at the local bar. Go figure.
Rent a secluded area and stay there for 30 days in bad winter before you commit to full time.
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An old man without a woman is a hermit. A young man without a woman is a nut.
I cut wood, raise chickens, eat squirrel, have solitude: and miss evening at the local bar. Go figure.
Rent a secluded area and stay there for 30 days in bad winter before you commit to full time.
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Ahhh, former city boy, you forgot to tell the lad about what he has to lay in before he can spend 30 days in bad winter. I'm guessing the squirrels you eat were fatten on the chicken feed they stole - squirrels seem to have a better taste after hanging around a chicken coop and are a lot easier to locate when you're hungry.
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Jim, that's a great thought/dream but in reality, it's a lot of year round hard work and unless you are in your very early 20's when you start this new life - it's a lifestyle that's very hard to adjust to if you try it much past your mid-30's. Having a nice piece of remote land with an old cabin, mobilhome or trailerhouse on it, a couple hours from your "main house", is a lot more enjoyable throughout your lifetime. I wish you well if you decide to give it a GO.
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I am moving back to the area I grew up in.
Its the life I had till I moved out on my own, I am 37 now.
We have also talked about a house in town... and a 5+ acre plot out of town also.
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Acreage
I have had more than one 'town boy' who bought 5 acres or so state that if one has five acres, they just as well have 50. They were referring to the effort to take care of the property, usually just before or just after moving back to the suburbs.
It does take quite a bit of time to take care of 5+. If it is a labor of love, it is wonderful. Otherwise, look out.
Don't even think of mowing 5+ with the 1,499 lawnmower from Lowes or Home Depot. You would come to hate it. I vote for a 10K $ Grasshopper, or some such mower.
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I vote for a 9N and a brush hog.
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Only if the 9N have live PTO!
We are now talking ancient history for a 37 year old.
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9N/2N are my dream tractors... learned to handle a tractor on my neighbors.
Mechanic friendly, durable, dependable, and a true classic.
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I might not make it, but 30 days or 30 months in that place looks better 30 years in that cubicle at work. By a long shot. And if there is enough feed for the chicken and the squirrels to both get fat, I'm good with that. I like fat squirrels.
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Chicken feed
The issue to keep in mind is that someone has to buy the chickens, and then the feed. I've seen evenings when 'one squirrel' and some wild greens had to feed 9 people.
Solitude in reasonable doses in super, but maintenance goes on. It is hard to find solitude in commuting distance of the cash flow cubicle I suspect.
Anybody need a dozen Kimbers for the squirrels?
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I fear I stretched the truth a tad on that last post.
Given my conscience is now clear: Do any of you guys actually eat squirrels?
If so, where do they come from.
We have three or four fat reds that eat more than their share of our sunflower seed, but my wife says they are off limits.
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There are some black squirrels from Illinois moving in here.
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I fear I stretched the truth a tad on that last post.
Given my conscience is now clear: Do any of you guys actually eat squirrels?
If so, where do they come from.
We have three or four fat reds that eat more than their share of our sunflower seed, but my wife says they are off limits.
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I love fried squirrel with mash potatoes and brown gravy. We used to live near a river and would hunt from a fishing boat. They would run around on the limbs overhanging the water and we would shoot them and scoop them up with a fish net. The ones we were hunting were locals, probably four or five generations in the same county, maybe more. NW Ohio.
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Well, you'll have plenty of time for eating squirrels, when your LIVING IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!!!
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Buy a 20x40' barge-if you look you can find a good one for between 7-10K maybe even cheaper. Build a house or park a trailer on it. buy a generator and build yourself a bar b que pit. If you want to get fancy- (the new regs now require them) you need to get a portable sanitation unit. Viola! Houseboat!!! I can't tell the amount of good satisfying solitude there is living on one of those for a long weekend back in the Atchafayla Basin or along the coastal marsh. All you need to bring in with you is water, Diesel and food. And it's small enough that you can tow it from place to place with your boat. You can build a pretty good one pretty well tricked out for under 20k if you shop carefully and are good at scrounging
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Hi, Sipowicz:
It was not a "Bad Divorce" because He got a roof over his head and a sundeck.
A "Bad Divorce" is where all you all you end up with is the clothes you are wearing and sometimes not even that.
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The small village I was raised in had about five oddballs. They lived in very small one room cabins or sheds in the area, on the river, in a marsh or quarry. All had never been married, I dont think were "gay", all were tough, drinkers and usualy hired hands occasionaly for farmers in the area. None owned a vehicle and would walk or hitch hike. Several seemed well schooled. All were philosiphers. All were interesting and mostly harmless. Never heard of one stealing a thing.
It seems you seldom see that type anymore.
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