Price Reduced!!.
Close to the Bob Marshall and Scape Goat Wilderness Areas, as well as the Blackfoot and Missouri Rivers where you can enjoy great fishing and hunting. This is a one of a kind property and is obviously very secluded.
Friday, December 03, 2010
Perfect Property for Terrierman!
Who is going to buy me this historic property for Christmas?
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Seahorse ;)
I'd better intervene on this one, Patrick. First of all, beginning now, this property is going to be snowed in until June -- when I say "in" I mean up to ten feet.
Second, it's not so secluded as you might think. One can walk into Lincoln which in winter is ridden with snowmobiles and in summer maybe ATV's. The woods are full of cabins, slightly more elegant and better equipped than the Unabomber's cabin, which I last saw in a warehouse under flourescent lights.
Third, there are more grizzlies than groundhogs. I once saw one sitting at the edge of the woods along the highway, just sitting on his butt watching cars go by. Would have given a penny for his thoughts but he had no pockets for pennies.
Fourth, Lincoln is a gloomy place, much overcast, and in summer smoky. A guy could get depressed and cranky.
Instead, consider a nice little house in Valier, a friendly village where the sun shines often and you can fish in the adjacent "lake" which is really an irrigation impoundment. The wind blows quite a bit. I don't see many terriers. More sheep and bird dogs. Few sociopaths and we know who they are. An exceedingly alert post office staff. And I even I would make you a free cup of coffee.
Prairie Mary
Mary Scriver
Valier, Montana
I'm all for the secluded snow getaway. In fact, my parents make quite a bit of money taking shacks like this and turning them into small fortunes. A good 4x4 with a snowplow used frequently solves the problem.
Right now they have homes in two municipalities, neither plows or sands unless they absolutely have to, and it's so cold the last time I went riding it was 35 below before the wind chill. Luckily it's so dry up there it's not nearly as uncomfortable as Southern Ontario.
Now, these are places that are hours north and east of Lloydminster (the next large town). They are so cold that EVERYONE plugs their vehicles in at night. If you don't, you've just bought yourself a 24 hour rental of a heated garage.
When we first went back out there, about five years ago, my father and I chuckled a bit about these people driving around with cardboard shoved in their grill.
The last time he picked me up it was below 50 with the wind - and that was standing still. He pulled up in this brand new Chrysler Sedan (normally a pickup guy through and through) and I went to make a joke about them buying it such a hurry they couldn't get the foil wrapping off the front, and my sister shot me look. When he got out to get gas I got the whole story - half hour out of town the engine froze. Running. At about 130km/h.
Didn't even know that was possible.
And so our lovely (and obviously intelligent) neighbours lent him their car, complete with a foil insulation covering the front - to block the wind.
It was right at the end of the story (about 10 minutes) that he jumped back in the car, just about ready to kill someone - all the pumps were frozen, they were off to get some radiant heaters. Yeah - the gas station froze.
I'm just pointing out that I only vacation once or twice a year - and this is where I choose to go. I have family EVERYWHERE. In about 15 states and 9 or 10 provinces. But the wilderness, the never knowing what's going to pop up next... where else does the family go for a drive and in the same 45 minutes see a herd of deer, a moose with two calves, buffalo, a bear hibernating (we cheated, we knew he was in that pipe), snow chickens (coolest birds EVER unless you're on the back of a horse) and a field wolf - what they call a wolf/coyote up there.
Not only that, but it being winter, every morning is an endless supply of new and interesting tracks everywhere. New snow every night, new tracks every morning.
And now the best part. The vast majority of the people there are there for exactly the same thing. They may have jobs, or farm or be handymen - but they came and they stayed because they love that same feeling, and every night pools of them gather around tables, play cards, and tell all about their most interesting stories that day. This makes them not only neighbours, but family.
I apologize for the blabber (I should have to pay you a dollar ever time I say that) but I just wanted to point out that the sun and the sand are beautiful, and no one I know dislike the experience... but living in the rough, that experience is on an entire other level, simply because you don't know what's coming next.
Last point - No, I'm not suggesting buying the Unibomber's house. As far as I'm concerned, "We don't need no water, let the mother...... burn!"
Although the price HAS been reduced... ;O)
You might want to ask if the cabin is included. When last I saw the structure, it was on a flatbed outside the federal courthouse in Sacramento ... and I'm pretty sure they didn't put it back on the property.
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