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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
- Henry David Thoreau
My new neighborhood:
Boston in my rearview, by deliberate design.
Roll, wheel.
NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)my wife and I, our dogs, and whatever birds and insects and other critters wish to visit our feeders or flowers. we can't see any neighbors' houses or yards. We love it.
Balm for the soul!
rug
(82,333 posts)Squinch
(50,774 posts)But hell, his ideas kick ass.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,298 posts)Now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow if I can...
Be well, my dear Will!
For you and yours, forever...
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)like my beloved northwoods in MN. Ahhh...........
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)have 140 acres of woods that resemble the OP's photo in Itasca County. (We bought it for less than $200/acre almost 15 years ago.)
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)and then one on Thunder Lake. Still rue the day I sold the last one.
You bought yourself a gem. I was selling real estate in the late
90's...busy time. Haven't decided exactly where to go this time.
My grown kids are in the Cities....so.........but maybe I can find
a compromise closer than the 1500 miles that now seperates us
but without the Cities hubbub!
pengillian101
(2,351 posts)Howdy, neighbor!
We just have a shade over 20 acres, but love it here. My user name comes from a nearby town
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)We're just a few miles south in the Swan River/Warba area. When we bought the place it was just a tarpaper shack in the woods. This is recreational/hunting land. We don't have electricity or running water. Our fulltime home is in the Twin Cities. (Although I grew up in a small farming town in southern Minnesota.)
Edit: One of the original builders of our cabin is Tom Anzelc - DFL MN House 5B.
pengillian101
(2,351 posts)Want to meet at Mr Roberts sometime? That would be fun!
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)I don't know when we'll be up there next however (I live in Ramsay County). I might not get in any grouse hunting this year unless I take vacation days. We have a college football player in the family, so weekends are out September until November.
pengillian101
(2,351 posts)Let me know the next time you're here and we can get together. We are retired, so we're around most of the time.
flvegan
(64,389 posts)Nice new neighborhood. Forgive the Beastie invocation. I can't help myself sometimes. They're from NYC, but I can't hold it against them.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)out by my area (the Berkshires) by any chance?
Congratulations on being able to get away from the rat race.
We don't go on vacation anymore. It's like being on vacation all year long.
My own road, from a few years ago
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)It's beautiful over there.
I drove over to Lee twice this week, shopping.
Crewleader
(17,005 posts)I told your Mom, it's the Best News! Beautiful for All of You!
Trailrider1951
(3,409 posts)Reminds me of the year I spent in rural New Hampshire....Lucky you to be out of the city.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)It looks like you took the "road not taken"!
We live at the top of a road that looks much like that. It is fabulous in the fall!
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,470 posts)...if it were this area. Reminds me of a line from a movie: "They look like November, not Autumn, not Winter, in between."
applegrove
(118,021 posts)malthaussen
(17,066 posts)livetohike
(22,084 posts)make many happy memories there .
sinkingfeeling
(51,277 posts)WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)ConcernedCanuk
(13,509 posts).
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Was poor for decades,
recent unexpected inheritance allowed me to buy 28 acres at the end of a dead road,
mostly surrounded by Crown land.
View out my front window one morning, watching Gopher enjoying the clover in my yard.
So I absolutely get it . . .
Good choice!
CC
handmade34
(22,755 posts)...this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything. (Shakespeare)
so nice...
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)There was a rope on a tree overhanging the pond which we, like idiots, used to swing over the pond. Somebody predictably fell in so I had to lend my dry coat. Did I mention it was a cold afternoon
Raven
(13,872 posts)I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, and a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean roads will I have there, and a hive for the honey bee, and live alone in the bee loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, dropping from the veils of the morning
to where the cricket sings; there midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, and evening full of linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always day and night I hear the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core.
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats