Yeah, it sure feels like spring. Warm days in the 50's F. I'm loving it. I think maybe the big Elm tree outside is budding. That can't be right, can it? I'm okay with shorter winters for sure.
We had an interest in a cute farmhouse over near Monte Vista, Colorado. It has 40 acres and is near the mountains on the west side of the valley. Pretty place. Only about ten minutes outside of the cute town of Monte Vista too. And then we got the local paper delivered to our mailbox, just like every week. This week they had a section talking about government projects and what not. Last time it was about education, and the time before about farming. Anyway, it turns out the county government (Rio Grande County) is allowing another drilling exploration in the area. Fracking. Just on the other side of the hills from that cute farmhouse. Too bad people are crazy for fossil fuels. Scratch that one off the list. And then, in the same paper, a couple of pages over was a story about the water crisis in the Valley. Well...stop fracking. Do people realize how much water it takes to frack????
So, back to it then. There are a couple of places over near Manzanola, Colorado that we are considering. They had some weird dust storms...haboobs this past winter, which is disturbing and unwarranted. We need to plant winter cover crops instead of letting the soil blow away. So, there is that, plus the high heat in the summers. There are also a couple of interesting places down near Cerrillos, NM that I have been snooping on via the internet. We shall see what new and interesting things the Universe has to reveal about any of these places.
So, as the weather warms, I have an urge to clean up, to get rid of any thing just sitting around, to be free of stuff so I can fly away in a moment's notice. Uh-huh. Also have been looking at campers on Craigslist and of course old school buses. I have an urge to wander. I'm feeling very nomadic, or maybe it's just time to move on.
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