If you want to live out here.

Very nice.  I love living out in the country.  I just bought a new pair of binoculars so I can watch the deer and turkeys in the field, though I often have them in my front yard.  I even have a blue heron that frequents my pond during the summer.  
 

Road into my house and last power pole 100 ft from house after fighting with Forest Service to bring in on their road. What an ordeal that was for approval even though an established forest road! (Government land)





Drilling holes for poles through lime stone:

Well, now that I looked at some of the pictures I took, I remember a little better than I am VERY lucky that it did't attack me, as I remember that I picked it up and brought it to my folks' house to get the cage.  I was thinking that I had gotten the cage first, but I was wrong.  So again, VERY lucky.  Here are a couple of pics, the first being what I saw on the side of the road and then when I had it in my car...




I do the same with turtles.  It ticks me off when people just run them over, especially when it's on a back road, where a person can easily stop and move it.  
 
There are some snapping turtles that live in my pond that lay their eggs in my yard every  year.  They haven't hatched for the last couple of years because it's been so dry, but if it's the same this year I am going to figure out a way to keep the spots where they lay the eggs damp, possibly with gallon water bottles with little holes in the bottom and one in the cap.  
  

How beautiful! Where abouts is is this if you don't mind me asking? 

Also... I kinda want to roll down the hills :D

It is Hollister CA.

that looks gorgeous!

At the very end of this road is a gate. I did a house about three miles in for Hughesnet. It is one of the largest cattle ranches in Calif..

Snow and ice is the killer. Downpour no problem with 4 wheel drive. Pretty hard packed road.

Snow and ice is the killer here, too, though more the snow than ice, as we don't get many ice storms, just a ton of snow.  Right now we have about two feet, though that will melt in the next couple of days.  We have had the main road wash out a couple of times with some nasty floods over the last eight years.  The price of living in the sticks, I guess, but I wouldn't trade it for anything, even FIOS.  Well...maybe if someone offered me a shoe box full of fifties.  LOL.
  

Two feet would put everything to a stop here in Boston Mountains. Normal is 6 inches at most but it turns to ice the longer it stays with sun during day and freezing at night.

Not had a winter where I'm at. Dusting of snow, 60-70 even in February.