May become a flatlander again.......Any Wisconsin Residents out there??

[Jeff423]

True. The Ozarks are beautiful. Not really what a lot of people think of as mountains so much as BIG hills, but not flat and boring either.

As a MO resident with a BIL who has a cattle ranch in the Ozarks I would add heat, humidity, ticks, and mosquitos to a MO summer.

 

[BC38]

As a MO resident with a BIL who has a cattle ranch in the Ozarks I would add heat, humidity, ticks, and mosquitos to a MO summer.

And chiggers too - don't forget chiggers.

On my last visit to the SE Ozarks a couple of years ago I made the mistake of wading a couple of hundred feet through a field of tall weeds while wearing cargo shorts.

The little buggers nearly ate the skin off my legs from the knees down. Took nearly a month for it to heal up.

 

[THREEDFLYER]

**UPDATE**

After giving up on purchasing a property north of us in the Hamilton Montana area due to real estate being ridiculously high we ended up purchasing a home on just under three acres close to the towns of Pound and Coleman off of Highway 141 about an hour north of Green Bay Wisconsin.

The property is the last part of land that has been owned by the same family since 1866 so we are the 2nd owners. They sold off the major part of their property gradually over the years and this is the final piece with a house and outbuildings.

The property has a 4 bedroom home with a full DRY basement, a very large barn/storage building, another small garage and yet another shed on 2.7 acres and our purchase price is $315,000

For that amount of money you would not be able to purchase a 2 bedroom 1 bath single level home with NO garage on a 1/4 acre lot in the Hamilton, MT area.

Glad I'll be able to make an annual migration back to Salmon Idaho to hunt/fish or I would probably go nuts.....but we will find new things to do and with Green Bay and Lake Michigan close bye I may just end up getting another boat!

Stay tuned, I have a pile of "HARDWARE" to move not to mention all the household stuff!!

 

[soFlaNative]

Good Luck with the new digs.

 

[zeke]

If memory serves, you're fairly to some of the nicest trout streams in the state. Not to mention Lake Michigan

 

[Jebus35745]

Hey Tom, good luck buddy with the new house and location. Looks like a great country setting with some room to it. Nice catch, Larry

 

[mtgianni]

**UPDATE**

After giving up on purchasing a property north of us in the Hamilton Montana area due to real estate being ridiculously high we ended up purchasing a home on just under three acres close to the towns of Pound and Coleman off of Highway 141 about an hour north of Green Bay Wisconsin.

The property is the last part of land that has been owned by the same family since 1866 so we are the 2nd owners. They sold off the major part of their property gradually over the years and this is the final piece with a house and outbuildings.

The property has a 4 bedroom home with a full DRY basement, a very large barn/storage building, another small garage and yet another shed on 2.7 acres and our purchase price is $315,000

For that amount of money you would not be able to purchase a 2 bedroom 1 bath single level home with NO garage on a 1/4 acre lot in the Hamilton, MT area.

Glad I'll be able to make an annual migration back to Salmon Idaho to hunt/fish or I would probably go nuts.....but we will find new things to do and with Green Bay and Lake Michigan close bye I may just end up getting another boat!

Stay tuned, I have a pile of "HARDWARE" to move not to mention all the household stuff!!

Congratulations on finding what you want. I recently saw that Montana was 3rd in the US at the top of home prices to wages, trailing only Hawaii and California. I really wondor where my offspring are headed.

 

[johngalt]

Looks like a nice place behind the cheese curtain!

 

[zwartepiet]

Nice place Tom!
Now you'll have to start to slowly increase your intake of beer and cheese so you'll be acclimated prior to the move!
Congrats!

 

[Countrycuz]

Looks like a great place. Good luck on your move, that's something I would dread, after being in the same place so many years.

 

[ladder13]

Beautiful country, and home, Tom.

 

[zeke]

And might give some consideration to planting some more wind break perimeter. There's likely some straight line wind hitting ya in winter, as what is known as "frozen tundra" part of state.

 

[THREEDFLYER]

Nice place Tom!
Now you'll have to start to slowly increase your intake of beer and cheese so you'll be acclimated prior to the move!
Congrats!

More of a whiskey and cigar guy rather than beer and cheese.....but I may have to adapt a bit to blend with the locals, LOL!!

What part of the U.P. are you in? Wife grew up in Iron Mountain and we have family up in Houghton/Marquette area.

 

[THREEDFLYER]

And might give some consideration to planting some more wind break perimeter. There's likely some straight line wind hitting ya in winter, as what is known as "frozen tundra" part of state.

We lived in Prescott Valley, AZ for 6 years which is wide open country and known as the "Land of the leaning trees" due to the winds.......

The original barn was partially destroyed by a tornado in 1968 according to the tornado tracking records that I found.....it was the only one that hit that spot since they started keeping records.

A wind break may certainly be a good thing to do.

 

[Jebus35745]

Hey, any updates Tom??? Larry

 

[THREEDFLYER]

Hey, any updates Tom??? Larry

Larry,

We closed on the property on Feb 7th and need to let winter settle down a bit before we start moving our stuff across country.

Plus have some work loose ends to wrap up

Hopefully start moving a load out of here sometime in late March or early April.