your dream property

I'm working on mine now

You are almost working on MINE now.

I live on my dream property. The only thing I would like to change is add about 5 - 10 more acres.

Hopefully we will have our dream property sometime before I die... With a little work and patience, we should get there.

We actually have already purchased our dream property...in nacent form at least. 185 acres of fertile land with a creek on one side, and a nice set-up for a run-off pond. It's mostly pine forest now. The land is fertile though, based on the portion we've cleared. Eventually we plan to manage it on a silvopasture model. It's a life project.

I am Retired and my Dear Wife has another year to go, until she is also. We moved out here when I retired. It's about 5 miles from the nearest little town.

We have lived out here 10,or maybe 12 years.
We live on 13 acres of wooded hills, in South Central Indiana. There is a 1& 1/2 acre pond 50 yards from the house. There's enough fish in it, and enough hummingbirds around here, that we rarely ever see any mosquitos.

There are a couple of little, wet weather streams on the Place. And one of them runs most of the time.
There's even a little waterfall, up in the hills, on one of the streams.

Our 2 little story house sits on the side of a hill, near the top. So we have beautiful views, over the hills, out the windows in every direction. We fell in Love with the Place when we first saw it. And we still love it.

I do the mowing, about 4 or 5 acres, in the Summer. My dear Wife says I should quit mowing about a half or a third of it, to save the time and the gasoline, and just let it grow up. But it looks so good around the Place when it's all neatly mowed.
I'm 74 years old, but I can still handle riding that old mower, around on these hills. It is getting a little tougher, though.

Yeah, it is pretty much the Dream Place, we always hoped we would find.
I'll be content to spend the rest of my years out here. And... I hope there are several more.........

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I would like a few acres. I don't need as many as the 12 at my old place. Most of that was just resting. A small pond. A view. House site protected from the prevailing winter winds. I really like craftsman and southern farmhouse houses, but neither is prevalent in rural areas here. Don't know if I'm ready to build. I'm struggling with "waiting". Lots of things I thought I'd do, want to do, wish I'd done, and haven't. At 64 I feel like I have to start thinking about what I'll do when I'm older, too. Time has a way of just flying by.

After living all over the country and in Germany, I would have to say this is my dream property. Rolling hills filled with lots of hardwoods, pines and cedar.. flat cleared areas prect for huge gardens and hay fields.The soil is heavy red clay but it is very fertile and grows almost everything with little effort! Our property is the second highest spot in the county. It was purchased by my husband's grand father some95+yrs. ago. He was raised here and knows it better than his hand! We are thrilled that is will be our retirement home. 90% of our adjoining property belongs to his cousins.. and the other is owned by timber companys..

This is pretty much it except for a few things. I wish the worthless water hickory's(dozens) were pecan trees, wish it hadn't been sprayed with herbicides to the point there is no variety in the pastures and I wish the fences were 8 ft tall with monster growths of honeysuckle all over them

Trees line the creeks. Lovely spring fed pond. Cleared pastures between the creeks. Lovely sandy loam soil through most of it with some pockets of clay. Abundant game(sometimes too abundant). In a few years when I've finished doing some of the restoration projects I'm working on there should be a much larger variety of wild edibles again like there used to be. Currently planting for bees as I'm working on developing a large apiary.

Fronts on a rarely traveled paved county road. Nearest neighbor is 1/2 mile down the road, but there aren't many others for a long ways around. In a couple of directions there is nobody for miles. About 12 miles from a medium sized city.

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We're already living on our dream. When we were looking for a place, I wanted at least 20 acres. Hubby preferred 5 since he was the one that would be having to mow and keep it up. What we got has 35 acres. Thirty acres mixed forest and 5 acres cleared; so we're both happy

We're on a dirt road about 25 miles from town. Three year round creeks that we can lay in bed and listen to. A stocked pond. Nice old farmhouse that we recently found out is part log, probably built around 1860. Great neighbors, but only one we can see in the winter when the leaves are gone. I love that our land is a mix of pasture and steep mountain. Lots of nooks and crannies and great rock formations. It isn't boring.

We have a garden, some old apple trees and sugar bush. We raise sheep and ducks. We also have donkeys, chickens and a couple of horses. The sheep and horses free range during the summer months. They keep the place groomed to the point that hubby sold his riding mower. He hasn't had to mow in three years now. We've finally got it to the point were chores are pretty easy, even in the winter.

To make things even better the neighbor called and offered us complete free use of her 4 adjacent acres. That's going to make a huge difference to our sheep operation. We'll be able to grow our flock and only have to feed hay when snow is on the ground.

All in all this place is perfect for our needs and we're very thankful to have found it.

I just found mine online. But I still have our current place, and the price tag is too high.

I would say where I am now is my dream property, 35 acres- 2 ponds and a creek 5 acres woods,the rest is fields and buildings, will be added a 2 acre garden/orchard this year.

The original part of the house is from the mid 1800's, the first addition from the 30/40's and the newest sections is from the 1980's. It has a whole lot of character.

If possible I would change a few things, I would move the house and property a little further south and to a smaller town. I'm not a fan of winter and we are slowly being over take. By the urban sprawl of Philadelphia. ( we are about an hour outside the city)

I would also by the neighboring farm if I could- another 30-50 acres and replace the enclosed front porch with a wraparound porch.

I like the land I have now but would like to double the acreage to 30-40. The biggest changes I'd make is a pond or two, some pasture and a big old barn.

You simply live on the wrong side of the hill.

I am working on making my property a dream place. Would like very much to buy the neighbors unattended property. I think I need to double my property size for pasture and pond. Since one can not have every thing I have decided to settle for what I have.

I've lived on these 31 acres for 51yrs now.dw has passed but not before we talked of down sizing and moving away from the heavy snow belt.looking at northern penn(middle)or eden-ashville area of n.c.15 acres-water-small pond-2 acres for a garden.some elevation for a good field of fire! 4yrs to retirement........