Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

We have been putting some time in on the boat. It checked out on all cylinders but it wasn't wanting to crank the way it should. It turned out to be a Power Pack and I replaced that and it started right up. It had some odds and end minor things that needed to be done but it's now ready to run. This boat is a 1978 model and since I have no desire to come paddling back into the ramp, I spent time to take care of what needed to be done. After all the little things were taken care of we paid to have a friend who is a Marine Mechanic come out to check everything out and he gave it his seal of approval.

So now we have a fishing ready boat and thousands of acres of lakes but I'm not going out there when it is this cold.

 

[Ridgetop]

Hope your shoulder mends. Getting more mature LOL can really interfere with the stuff we have waited all our lives to be able to retire and do!

We are still hemming and hawing about moving. I wake up in the am and look out the widow from my bed and see a gorgeous view of the valley and mountains in the distance with the sunrise making the colors so pretty. I loo out the kitchen window at sunset and feel like we will never see such a beautiful view of sunset colors. We have a barn, a good house, good friends, and family here. We also have very expensive hay prices, people who can't understand how we could possibly eat our "pet sheep" and a new tax on septic tans. There is already a large sewer tax on people hooked to the sewer. Then we see everything our dear governor wants to do for the digent, "homeless" and illegals.

We will be back looking around in Texas this summer. We really need to move out of California. DH's sister and brother-in-law really surprised us by announcing they are moving to Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. Theybought a house there and are putting their home in san Diego on the market in February! They are complete city people and he is a surfer! They bought a house on 1 acre. They left 3 daughters and a grandchild in San Diego. The youngest daughter just married and is planning on getting pregnant asap since she is 38. I was surprised since I thought they would have stayed for another grandchild but . . . .

Are you and Theresa going to the National Katahdin show this year? Will your shoulder be mended enough to exhibit?

 

[Mike CHS]

@Ridgetop we love the cost of living where we are plus the people make a good place, even better. Our property taxes are a little over $600 a year and we have no other hidden fees. The county just north of us has some fairly steep permit fees (for our area anyway) but our county has none. I went down to the county office to see if they had anything on our septic system since I needed to figure out where everything was. They had a hand drawn diagram with approximate distances on a sheet of notebook paper.

When we built our shop, the only inspection that we needed was to have a single light hooked up when the power company came out to set the meter.

My shoulder doesn't bother me too much and when it does, it's because I over did something. Like I said earlier, some days it will take my breath away when I forget to be careful but it still is a fraction of the pain that I had before surgery last year. The Doc told me that he could make most of the pain go away but not all of it. It's still completely functional so I don't let it bother me too much. I have a hard time admitting that I can't do what I could when I was 20 like a bunch of other folks.

I'm not sure if we can do the show this year or not but we do our Tennessee and Alabama association shows more than the National since we can do those as day trips.

 

[Bruce]

We will be back looking around in Texas this summer. We really need to move out of California. DH's sister and brother-in-law really surprised us by announcing they are moving to Coeur D'Alene, Idaho.

Maybe you need to move to Idaho!

 

[Baymule]

Isn't the National Katahdin show being held in Kentucky this year? Had to go look it up, yup.

July 16-18, 2020. Katahdin Hair Sheep International Expo & Sale.

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Hardin County Extension Center – Elizabethtown, KY.​

Save the date. Educational Programs and the National Katahdin Sale.​

 

[thistlebloom]

Maybe you need to move to Idaho!

Or Vermont!
Actually @Ridgetop , we would love to have more folks like you. We are experiencing a huge population explosion and all the farms are being gobbled up by housing tracts. Prices have skyrocketed and our kids are finding owning a place out of reach. Sometimes people move to a place and then try to turn it into what they left. That makes me sad. I live north of Coeur d'Alene.

 

[Baymule]

No, she is moving to Texas!

 

[thistlebloom]

No, she is moving to Texas!

Maybe we should arm wrestle over her!

 

[Baymule]

Maybe we should arm wrestle over her!

Now there's an idea! Or we could trust her judgement, let her make up her own mind and MOVE TO TEXAS!!!

 

[Mike CHS]

Isn't the National Katahdin show being held in Kentucky this year? Had to go look it up, yup.

July 16-18, 2020. Katahdin Hair Sheep International Expo & Sale.


Hardin County Extension Center – Elizabethtown, KY.

Save the date. Educational Programs and the National Katahdin Sale.

That's only 3 hours from us but it still makes it hard for us both to go so we shall see, We had a guy that we were working with to do some farm sitting but Mel didn't like him so I don't trust him. Mel has liked everyone except for this guy.