The View Out My Back Door
Earlier, when I made some posts about the extraordinary winter we experienced in my part of Idaho, a blog reader or two responded by asking WHY anyone would want to live in such a place.Perhaps this photo will serve as a partial answer. It's of the view out my back door, looking north to some of the acreage we ride on.
No houses, no roads, no fences, no developed culdesacs lined with McMansions. Just the rolling hills that are characteristic of the Palouse country, bordered by the low. timbered mountains forming the foothills of the Rockies.
Does the area get snow in some winters? Yup. Does that add up to some wintertime work and vexation? 'fraid so. And is the tradeoff worth it? To me and mine...no question!
posted by Juli Thorson @ 12:04 PM
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6 Comments:
That is a beautiful view, and I can understand why you would want to live there. =) We used to have a nice quiet view, well of corn fields, but now we have two new developements in front of us and behind us....what fun. =( We have about 5 acres and are still hoping to build that horse barn. =)
Five acres would seem like quite a spread to all those folks living in the developments. Hope you get to build that barn--and that you get some good ideas from the barn plans in March and April's issues of Horse & Rider!
We spent most of Easter weekend doing fixups on our barn--kind of a never-ending job with an all-wood barn that's almost 40 years old. But--a person probably couldn't afford to build such a structure nowadays, so I'm grateful just to have it!
I love your view!
I grew up in Ontario farm country- low rolling hills and chunks of forest. I could count 9 other farms surrounding ours. So far, it's still like that and I'm crossing my fingers that it stays the same.
I understand the barn fix-up routine very well! I keep my horses on my parents' place, in a barn that's over a century old. It's a lot of work to keep it up, but it's worth it.
Hi Julie,
I love your view! I'm in West Texas so all we see is dirt, tumbleweeds and horny toads! haha
I was reading the new issue of H&R, how do you go about picking the horse for the article "Horses we would like to own?" You have picked some wonderful horses, I really liked Walla walla whiz!!
Heidi,
Every time I catch myself grumbling over the work of barn maintenance, I remind myself that there are plenty of horse owners who'd give their eyeteeth just to have a barn at all!
Wow! Did you just take that picture? If that is a current pic I am so jealous!! We still have over a foot of snow in our fields and of course all the snow we plowed all winter is still in huge pile all over my property.
I know what you mean - but sometimes I would still rather trade in my 10 acres in Washington for 10 in Arizona!
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