My plans have been in the works now for two+ years to move up there Scotty! Just got to get things lined up!
Of course.Gotta have some thing to keep me in shape after I retire......Except for rehabbing a couple job-related injuries in late 1991 & 2000,I haven't set foot in a gym or ''health club'' since I was 16.... Waste of time if you ask me.
Good bye Michigan with its taxes seniors now have to pay. Maybe even good bye USA with the silly EPA laws. Hello some place where I could have a couple thousand acres of woods and possiable a 1000 of farm type fields. I would have to research where I want to live. I would not totaly stop cutting and splitting wood as I would do a little every season and hire out the majority of the grunt work, or buy the tools and hire the workers, NAAAAAA. hired help isn't worth to awful much when hard work is involved. I would still heat my home and shop with fire wood. Hunt and fish, raise a few beef cows and some pigs and have a cook out every so often for the home less. Al
Id definitely still burn wood, but more for the ambiance in the giant fireplaces in my 5000sf log palace. Pretty sure I would give up on searching CL for scores and just have it delivered too.
AGREED!! Heading up to the White mtns this coming Thursday for a long weekend, in a rustic cabin with some friens. Something we do twice a year. One in early November, and again in the middle of February. Nothing like getting off the grid, and taking advantage of a piece of God's country. Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
sounds great! Up until this past spring my dad lived near the top of a mountain in Jackson, NH. About as off the grid as you can get while still being on the grid.
Nice. The Jackson area is real nice pretty country. There is no cell signal where we are going on the Kanc Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
Yep. We vacation up in northeastern vt every year - no cell, no tv, spotty electrical. Just a little lake, woods, family, and barbecue. That's how we want to while away our last couple (or several, hopefully!) decades.
I win the lottery every year...$104 since I never play and keep my two dollars per week! I would type LOL, but I am not really laughing, I am 43 years old so that is $2600 I have saved by NOT playing. (Yeah I am cheap). But to answer the question, yes I would still cut wood. I am 43 years old, but retired at age 42 with enough land so that I will never run out of wood at my current rate of production. It is not a lot, and logging wise I only average around 600 cord per year, but it gives me something to do. Ultimately my goal is to clear the best land and raise more sheep which will inevitably force me to farm more than log, but that is easier on the body, and more lucrative than logging. If I achieve that goal then I will just buy more land and rinse and repeat. Right now the cost of property taxes forces me to just concentrate on what I do have and make the most of it.
There are two drawings each week. You're richer than you thought. I'll buy a ticket for tonight and since we have mega millions and power ball, probably one for the next drawing. Odds are slim, but there have been 4 or 5 people I personally know in our area who've won multi million jackpots. All, even the college kids who won big in the early 2000's are still doing well. Yes, I'd still cut and burn wood. It's part of managing our woodlands.
I understand what you are saying, and in hindsight probably should have kept my LOL as I do not blame anyone for buying a ticket. It is a powerful draw, and does make you wonder..."what if I won?" Myself I could not win a free bucket of sheep poop if there was only me and another person in the running; such is my luck! But money is interesting because it all depends on how a person looks at it. I could never sell my farm and make millions on it, but when I calculate the resources upon it, it comes to 2.2 million dollars. That is calculating the livestock, the equipment, the forest products, the gravel in the pit, the slate in the quarry, the fields, etc. All that has value, but not as a whole. It is kind of like selling a used car; selling a 2004 Ford Focus with 230,000 miles means it is worth about $500 in scrap iron, but if a person took those parts off and sold it on ebay that same car would be worth $2,000. It is the same concept with land. I might be a 9th generation farmer, but I was the first in my family to actually buy my farm off my father instead of getting it by inheritance. I just want people to know that so they do not think I had some free ride. But while God has allowed me much in my life, and through grace kept many vices away; one he has not kept me from struggling with is the issue of contentment. I really struggle with that. I might purchase more land in the future as no amount of acres is ever enough, but for now I really am devoted to make every acre I have work well for me. I have a long way to go for sure. In the meantime I must learn to be content with what I have.
I know this is blasphemy but I moved from 5000 sq ft with pellet heat to 1250 sq ft with NG and I will not burn pellets anymore. 45 bucks a month for natural gas, heat and hot water.
My grandpa (84 and declining health) and I have played this same game since I was old enough to understand the value of money. I can say without a doubt many of the reply’s are the exact comments we have each said over the last few decades. Neither of us play but when it’s 500 million he has me buy him $10-20 just in case. Our basic plan was Put aside 1/2 and invest it for perpetual income Give away at least 10% 1) land and lots of it mostly cattle, mountains and hunting 2) airplane and pilots license when this gets boring helicopter and or gyrocopter 3) big sailboat in the gulf and island hop 4) what ever toys to make land management easier
probably not winning big would likely mean a secure compound in a much warmer climate a lifestyle change would likely preclude giving heat or cold much thought
Money buys time, I would invest this in my family and the people I love. I would still go out into the woods but hopefully these would be my own. The property in the image above is about two miles from where I live and comes with about 60 acres of mature woodland. Land is so expensive here as we are only a small island however this place is a gem. If we came into money my wife and I have talked about buying this place and running retreats for those in rehab based around forestry / wood working / homesteading activities. Either this or bringing groups of school children from our cities out into the country for similar.
