In the Yahd
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Shoulder pain woke me up this morning at 2:00. Big full moon so I sat on the patio for a while. In 30-minutes, I saw the following: Four deer, two rabbits, one "unidentified" something, one coyote and one half-naked man with a bb gun protecting tomater plants.
Within the next two years, they are building closely around me, the following: A medical plaza, a strip mall, over 1,000 apartments and over 200 houses. And they call it progress??
I cannot convince wife to sell and move out of county. Taxes are going to skyrocket to build a new, $168-million high school, build a jail expansion, hire more police and fire men and women, improve infrastructure to handle increase traffic.
Guess I'll have to quit peeing off the patio.
John, I can't really blame your wife. Just imagine the logistics of trying to move all those awards you've accumulated, and the trophies too. There would be a line of Brinks trucks as far as the eye could see! Better just to stay where your at....but on another note....peeing off your deck beside a school playground might just get your name on another well known list. Just saying. Hope your shoulder feels better....gotta take your time reeling in all those record book fish!
My anthem!!...........
Lord Have Mercy on a Country Boy
Don Williams...................................
"Well I grew up wild and free walking these fields in my bare feet
There wasn't no place I couldn't go with a twenty-two rifle and a fishing pole
Well I live in the city but don't fit in you know it's a pity the shape I'm in
But I got no home and I got no choice oh Lord have mercy on a country boy
When I was young I remember well I'd hunt the wild turkey and the bob-white quail
The river was clear and deep back then and fishin' lines tied to the willow limb
Well I live in the city...
Well they dammed the river they dammed the stream
They cut down the cypress and the sweet gum trees
There's a laundra mat and a barber shop and now the whole meadow is a parking lot"
Well, your privacy might be going away but no doubt it will big-time increase the value of your property!!
Maybe take the $$$ and Run to a new remote home?
Keep the Faith man.
Good luck, Robb
Just Don't Move Here John (Although I'm Sure You Already Know That!)
Josh turner I believe.......
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One of my favorite Josh Turner tunes!!!!!
The song was written by Bob McDill, and Don Williams recorded and had a hit with it in 1977, the year Turner was born.
Oh wow- had no idea! It was on the first Josh Turner album I bought. Just assumed it was his.
Hey Woods Walker- Do you know why all the bridges leading OUT of NJ charge a toll?
Your wife may give in once they start construction on the building. Noise, noise, more noise, plus difficulty getting in and out due to traffic detours and road construction. It will be a long, miserable stay until all of that is completed. Better get out now while you can, or ride the storm out until it is finished and then cash in.
Your wife may give in once they start construction on the building. Noise, noise, more noise, plus difficulty getting in and out due to traffic detours and road construction. It will be a long, miserable stay until all of that is completed. Better get out now while you can, or ride the storm out until it is finished and then cash in.
"Hey Woods Walker- Do you know why all the bridges leading OUT of NJ charge a toll?"
Rut, I used to deal with several vendors in northern Jersey. Used to really tick me off that I had to PAY to leave that god forsaken state.
The end of the road is near. Hang in there as it won't be long. Your pain, despair, and afflictions will cease and disappear once death, the great cure and equalizer, comes to visit.
PECO- Construction started across the road from me, about a year ago. It took 114-acres I use to hunt.
The loss of hunting land is irrelevant to you though since you decided you did not want to shoot things anymore right ?
I get so confused.
BullElk- My property has gone up about 200% since I bought it. A half-acre around here is about $50K. Could probably sell for enough to buy 5-8 acres in an adjoining county and build a smaller home, maybe 2,000 sq. ft and have some left over. Wife won't even discuss it. But it could be worse. I could have PABowhunter 1064 for a neighbor. :)
But bowbender.............It is SO worth it!!!!!!!!! (Sorry Jersey guys ;-)
Bou-Loss of hunting land should be important to all of us. It doesn't matter whether we hunt or have plenty of land or decide not to hunt. I believe you are confused. If I hunt, I have plenty of land to hunt on. But I am still concerned by loss of habitat and the rise in urbanization.
We ALL should be Bowriter! ;-)
There's always the "wife change option" but I can tell you it's expensive. I live 20 miles from the nearest modest size town and my nearest neighbor is 1.6 miles and I can't see them. It would really depress me to see a housing development pop up in sight.
When teaching NROTC at OSU I bought a great house in Corvallis and rented it for years. Thought I wanted to retire there. Went back at about the 10 year point and I couldn't believe the traffic.
C'mon, John! I'd be a great neighbor....the things you could teach me! Lol! We could have sizing contests all day, every day! ;-)
No, yours is bigger. Mine has shrunk, aint no bigger than ear of corn.
^^^^^^^^ :-)
The first post is the reason I bought 94 acres and built my house in the middle of the highway frontage and 350' off the road. When Sarge the Wonder Dog and I go out to pee at night, nobody can see my ear of corn or his little pee bug either. Oh, there may be coyotes, coons, possums, or deer watching, but no humans for a quarter mile in any direction, and that's the way it's gonna stay.......
I would loose the wife and get another dog.
"Hey Woods Walker- Do you know why all the bridges leading OUT of NJ charge a toll?"
I give up! Why? (and I was born and raised there...believe me, whatever it costs it's WORTH IT!)
Good moon over "The Yahd", this morning.
The things that make men feel claustrophobic and unsettled tend to make women feel more secure.
Lot of truth in that statement Owl!
I grew up in New Jersey, as my parents had. I was to attend the University Of Wyoming, and when the first semester was about to start my parents drove me out there. We had never been there before. We took I-80, and when we came over the pass between Cheyenne and Laramie, and the whole view of the Laramie plains came into view with the Snowy Range peaks in the back ground, Laramie looked a small cluster of buildings in an otherwise VAST indescribably beautiful panorama.
My mother immediately broke into tears.....and NOT of joy. I, on the other hand, thought I'd died and gone to Heaven.
"Why're you crying ma?", I asked her.
"OMG, there's NOTHING here!", she exclaimed.
"YES!!!" I said. "THAT'S THE POINT! It's PERFECT"
Well, there was the O.K. Corral and Norts. Oh, and mule deer and elk you could hunt before class. Then, if you killed one, you could use the UW butcher shop...if they didn't catch you.
Woods Walker- BINGO!!!!! You knew!!!!!! BECAUSE IT IS WORTH IT! ;-)
I get it! Most of us here do. But some just don’t understand why you would want to live 30 min from the nearest grocery store, mall, Walmart etc...................
Oh yes John.....Mel's meat lab!
And you forgot.........THE BUCKHORN!!! I used to sit at the end of the bar under the stuffed 2 headed calf (you had to be there.......).
I was. I was the second head. I also crawled home from that place out on the boardwalk going towards Woods Landing. OK was the place for early Sunday morning, red beer to get over Saturday night and tune up for the Sunday afternoon, jackpot bull riding. Wonder we all didn't get killed.
I know you were John!
We did the team roping at the OK on Sundays. And then the beer drinking.
See, you had it backwards. Seven red beers, you can trow a left hand, heel-loop and a half a head with one throw. Drink 14, you can ride Les Gore's pickup horse to town. (But be warned, it tends to piss him off.)
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My new favorite song!
“Miles and miles of John Deere green......................freedom far as I can see..................road to run and room to breathe................that’s who I am and I’ll always be..................”