Not really liking hughesnet service

Lisa J, there is latency on cable, just much lower than satellite. We're also willing to pay the price for secluded rural living. New house going up in fact, notice the trees, that way for at least half mile in every direction. National forest on three sides actually. Happy, happy.  :)

Not doing a finished basement?  Looks like you are gonna have one hell of a big crawl space...

Where is the pool ?

sgoshe - we are having steep and plastic delivered to prep having floor poured for our earth contact home here at the new farm. We don't have a lot of trees close to the house- 189 acres, 109 tillable, the rest mostly in pasture, maybe ten acres or so in trees. The house we are leaving though, has a winding drive, a concrete bridge over an intermittent stream that takes you into a three acre clearing. It feels almost enchanted driving there. I am a little sad to be going, but the wetlands, and the seven-acre lake, and the little wooded creek... the new place, for all of its fences, fields and barns, also has its own charms.

So neat that you are building, too! We ended up putting a camper at the building site so we could keep all the livestock together and refinish the hardwood floors and other projects before putting our old house up for sale. What are you doing while building?

This sweet guy (Four this year, with my granddaughter) and his brothers, plus location... peace, quiet and family are what makes my terribly expensive lifestyle so worthwhile. I will pay more for internet...

She is lovely, Gwalk. I have three dogs (Merri, a Lab/Pyrenees mix; Hank, a Wheaten Terrier mix (our best guess), and Princess, a Pyrenees we use as a livestock guardian dog for chickens (about forty, including bantam and large fowl), Nubian goats (four does, five doelings, and one buck) and our five guinea fowl. We also have five cats (Mr Twisty, Ashekebibbles, Duchess, George and Boomerang/KrazyCat). Then there are the horses. The two posted are Fyre (4-year old Egyptian Arabian; his grandsire is Thee Desperado) and Midnight. Midnight is the dam of my colt and yearling. Their sire is the sire of Fyre. They are both black, with Shadow having a star and two white feet, and Joey being all black (but bleaching to seal easily).