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Where is Mountain Cowgirl?

Thanks so much to all of you! You have no idea how much that means. Nicky is right that I feel my secondhand current ranch contributions aren't really that interesting. Living on the edge of town where just a few years ago I could see 40 head of cattle and one old burro grazing from my kitchen window, is now a housing development only stopping at the alfalfa field where the owner refuses to sell for even ten times more what it is worth as a hayfield. It is only a half-mile walk to reach the country, but it saddens me a bit to pass the pile of rocks that marks the spot where the old burro dropped dead and was buried, and it only exists because it was in a right of way where nothing can ever be built. I was the one that piled the rocks to mark the burro's grave.

No water in the ditch yet as we have been blessed with a lot of rain over the past months. The range grass looks the best I have ever seen and pasture grass has really reached some record heights with a nice color despite not being fertilized this spring. I am saddened that some won't fertilize this spring because nitrogen fertilizer has doubled in price.

I considered buying a lot on the edge of the alfalfa field, but the cost of the lot and building is insane. My luck would be that the field would sell right after I got settled in. I considered buying 10 acres with a small barn, irrigated field, and small house in need of repair I saw just come on the market, but two days later when I walked out to check it out, it was sold for $780,000. That is how fast places sell around here. There was no way I could have even taken care of it, but it didn't cost me anything to dream. I was thinking of a broken-mouth pregnant cow operation as Webfoot runs but even if I made great profits, no way could I pay an outrageous mortgage and pay for all the upkeep.
 
Mountain Cowgirl said:
I considered buying a lot on the edge of the alfalfa field, but the cost of the lot and building is insane. My luck would be that the field would sell right after I got settled in. I considered buying 10 acres with a small barn, irrigated field, and small house in need of repair I saw just come on the market, but two days later when I walked out to check it out, it was sold for $780,000. That is how fast places sell around here. There was no way I could have even taken care of it, but it didn't cost me anything to dream. I was thinking of a broken-mouth pregnant cow operation as Webfoot runs but even if I made great profits, no way could I pay an outrageous mortgage and pay for all the upkeep.
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To say land is going out of sight is an understatement. The neighboring place to the east went on the market this week. It has 30 acres of flood irrigated ground, maybe 160 of steep sagebrush hill, an old single wide where an old bachelor Mexican man has lived for the last 30 years, and several hundred yards of "driveway" that might require 4 wheel drive. Asking price is $485,000. And it is 30 miles to the nearest services of any kind.
B keeps telling me I should buy the place to add to mine. I keep telling him I am not that rich or stupid.
 
Thanks @Faster horses for the thread. I got a bit teary-eyed reading it. I must apologize to my fan Evans for my absence. I have recently renewed my Cribbage skills which he might find more acceptable than Pinochle. I also must be honest and say that his post about sparrows freezing on the roost and dropping dead frozen in roosting formation, was a bit chilly and encouraged me to look for card partners much further south.
 

"Where is Mountain Cowgirl?" Faster Horses ask.

Caring for her livestock, do you mind? :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
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