Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[OneFineAcre]

Oh, I forgot. The buck I'm getting was born in KY.

Just outside of Lexington which is about an hour from Morehead.
I think it's a sign.

 

[Mike CHS]

The terrain is simile to ours here in Tennessee and it never gets boring trying to figure out how to use it.

Good Luck on however you go.

 

[Baymule]

Wow, that place is beautiful! BJ and I both think you'd have to be nuts to pass this one up! We would love to have you in Texas, but we don't have elk. Really, that place is just what you wanted and there is bound to be BYH, SS, BYC or TEG friends somewhere around there.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Beautiful place! Hope it all works out for you!

 

[sadieml]

Hmmm...well, @Latestarter, that place in TX is about 13 hours from good ol' Blythewood, but that ol' KY home (sorry for the rotten joke, but I'm full of 'em, just ask my kids) is only 7 hrs away! Of course, I do love my memories of trips to Texarkana to see Aunt 'Nita, but since the SC heat just about kills me these days, I don't think I could survive TX for long anymore. Also, we could go a few hrs out-of-the-way on a potential trip to PA to visit DH's remaining family and visit KY. You and DH would get along great, I'm sure, since he spends a lot of his ample free time planning for the Zombie Apocalypse. You two could come up with some great ideas, I have no doubt!

On a slightly more serious note, that place looks incredible. It really does seem perfect! Of course deer, but elk AND bears? WOW!!! Sounds like it may have been made JUST FOR YOU! AND it's still well within your budget, even allowing for some improvements--if you end-up needing any! haha I bet I could even get my DH, who IS a recluse, btw, to visit you there with very little prodding. Maybe we'll bring you a chicken or three! The deck and grill are even ALREADY THERE! ...and you know, goats love hills, and we have to pass through NC to get there, so we could maybe do a delivery of kids for you from @Southern by choice or @OneFineAcre! Maybe we could just lead a wagon train there to have a welcoming party for you! You know, welcome to the south, welcome to goat herding...

I'm just sayin' ...

btw-Please be safe on the road! Can't wait to hear the next update... ...

 

[Latestarter]

Thank you all... very much! <---yeah, even the guys...

OK, This has been just as difficult (and TIRING) for me! Left here right after my last post for KY. I guess around 10 oclock Friday when I actually left the driveway. That was noon there. I arrived at the property at 8am (there) the next morning. REA arrived right about 8:30 as we agreed. By then I had done some walking, was completely sweat soaked (90% humidity and HILLS!), and very disappointed.

The REA in KY was "moderately" "OFF" when she stated "gently rolling hills" for lay of the land... the ONLY flat spots were right around the house and right around the shop and kinda, the path between them... Everything else was either substantially up hill (the driveway entrance) or substantially downhill (just about everything else). If you look closely at that picture, you'll see kind of a path cut around through the scrub to the workshop from the house. Even THAT was down hill into the gully then back up hill to the shop. Everything to the left of that path was a 60 degree slope UP to the road. Everything below that path was a good 45-60 degree slope down into a drainage valley for the "bowl" that is where I was going to put pastures (to the left of the path). The house sat on a flattened top of a sloping (downward) ridge. The shop sat on a cut-out, flattened section, of the side of the opposite ridge. There was no place to build a barn or even a decent sized run-out shelter. The grass slope behind the house was so steep I wondered out loud to the realtor how the heck the owner dared ride a lawn tractor across the slope without sliding out of the seat or tipping over. I'd have to think twice about doing it and the pucker factor would have been HUGE! Trying to go up that slope with a riding mower would be impossible... no traction. Going down it, you'd have to lock the brakes and you'd still slide too fast down and end up in the woods.
I didn't even want to think about trying to fence it There was no fencing. Oh, and that "scrub" I mentioned? Well, it was 6-8 feet tall and though a herd of goats could get lost in it, I'm sure they would have loved it... wild rose, black berry thickets, baby trees of about every variety that grows there, oak, maple, pine, fir, you name it. And of course head high weeds as well. Think about an area that was logged 10 years ago and then left to revert back. All I thought while looking at it was "my bees would be in heaven here"! I'm sure there's stuff in there blooming all spring, summer, and fall!

Man, I haven't been in humidity like that in a LONG time! Most of the 2nd half of the drive there was through rain. It was nice in the morning there, then a good portion of the return trip 1st half was rain... I turned right around from the property and started back. Got as far as 1/2 way across Misery... I mean Missouri... and crashed for the night. I was out around 7ish and woke up ~6ish got ready and hit the road again. Got home here I guess around 4ish. Spent the last while answering Emails from lender and REAs...

On the trip back, I texted the REA in TX and gave instructions to write an offer on the home there. Hopefully things will be more or less settled out tomorrow as I have buyers here who want to come by and look things over etc... Found out on the drive over to KY that I was pre-approved for a loan to buy that place. Of course I Emailed my LO when I got back to tell her everything has changed... She's gonna love me when she gets to work Monday... I explained that I would need a TX closing early on Sept 26th Or I'll be one of them homeless vets. I also ionformed her I'd need conventional financing as that property won't qual for VA or FHA. Also won't qual for a USDA loan. I also sent all the info that I have on the TX property. Gonna be a busy week...

OK, so this was like the 3rd post I opened starting back on Friday Morning, so now I'm going to go read the rest of 3 pages of posts I mean

 

[Southern by choice]

You picked a heck of a time to go to Kentucky. NC is horrid right now.The worst I can remember for the years I have lived here.
So KY is probably the same.

Those rolling hills are awesome IF you can put a barn on top of one... and that is a big IF.

Exciting for us on here... exhausting for you.

 

[NH homesteader]

This weekend is unbearable in NH, I can't imagine what it was like down there! The humidity is totally unreal.

Sorry it didn't work out but Texas sounds good! And it is actually good you went there on a bad day to see what it could really be like!

 

[Green Acres Farm]

Uh, guys, if you think that is bad let me tell you- it is NEVER, EVER, not humid where I live, in Florida. It is rare for it not to rain EVERY day in the summer. Can't think of a day in a long time when it hasn't. It is one giant steam bath here!

 

[NH homesteader]

That is why I will NEVER EVER live in Florida! No offense but there is nothing that could make me suffer through that heat!