A view this morning from my back door. Sure beats concrete and steel.
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Uhhhh yeah!I can feel the silence just looking at the pic.Fantastic.
go ahead and rub it in....i'd show you the view out my back door, but all you'd see is my neighbors and home daycares.
your a lucky man, some day though some day
What a wonderful place.
Pretty nice George, except I don't see any snow.
Yer gettin ripped off ;*)
One of these days I hope to get teknologickly advanced. Hope to post a pic from my office window. Plenty of snow. Lots o' critters too (scurryin to get outa the way 8*)
My best.
Scotty (who spends most of his time tryin to get fifty tons of freight up the Dalton)
Hey Scotty,
How about some pictures out your office window crossing Atigun Pass?
george, you are truly blessed!! Can ya walk out back and hunt? If so than you have it all! Shawn
Shawn...that woods on the left adjoins my property and it's all huntable. My neighbor is a dairy farmer and all that land is open to hunting as well. Not to mention the 10,000 acres of State Game Lands just three miles from my house.
Here's an earlier photo of the same:
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And here is the creek bottom that borders my woods:
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Doo doo doo lookin out my back door.
Great view!
Not exactly my back door, but 5 minutes from the house, where I missed a buck this morning (dern twig!) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/ceastes/P1000253.jpg)
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Here's what I see out my back door.
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Looks like I need to go buy a Lotto Ticket..... :pray:
I think im going to do the same. :pray:
Wow guys, that is some beautiful America! Congratulations!
You got that right George! Beautiful.
Here are the views from my back door..
facing south
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Facing north
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and facing west..30 steps from the back door and I am in the woods hunting. Believe it or not at 1:20 (16 mins ago) when I stepped out the door to take these pics there was a heavy bodied buck walking on the upper trail travelling north to south another 30 steps inside the woodsline you see in this pic. He was down by that black spot in the center of the pic. Guess I should be in a tree instead of at this keyboard huh? LOL
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Nice! Keep em comin!
I have been living in the burb's my entire adult life. Grew up in southern Jersey (Salem county) and have a strong desire to get away from the hussle's of the city life. Been looking at WV property. I'll hopin to be ready to buy in 2 years. Untill then, I will enjoy yall's pics and only hope lotto gets me there sooner. Somebodys gotta win,right?
JL
This is a shot out my front door during a late spring snow.
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Another pic. This one is out my back door. This is the funnel that I hunt.
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Just had to add another one. The men in my life.
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Here is one out my backdoor:
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Followed by one from the side of my house.
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It is usually white this time of the year.
In front of my house.
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In back of my house.
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talondale, those Appalachian Mountains are beautiful, and those kids are equally beautiful.
George
you guys are cruel: I look out my window, and all I see are students!
Katie, what's your Golden's name? We have two!
Alex
Oh great - now I have backyard envy. :-p
You guys are just cruel
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Lookin out mine...taken last winter
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Life is waaaay too short to live in the city!
I just put George's picture as my background.
So, George and Otto when do ya want me to come and hunt next year? Heck all of you that posted pics., when ya want me to come and hunt?? :bigsmyl: Shawn
Angus-she is Allie. I got her free about 5 years ago. The lady I got her from said she is 1/4 golden, 1/4 lab, and 1/2 Irish. Doesn't look it. Even the vet thought she was pure golden. Great dog with the kids.
Shawn....you're welcome here anytime you want to drive down. I'll probably be off all next hunting season (retiring in March) so we can let some boot tracks all over Will's Mountain. :campfire:
Here is a view of my back yard this summer. I wish the rascals would show theirselves now.
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I don't have the know how on this picture thing yet but my teenager is working on it for me. We have Several deer that sleep in our back yard next to the feeder. I have been so tempted to get on the roof and let one fly, but we are also not allowed to shoot them inside city corporation. I have a Highway patrolmen for a neighbor. My luck he would die on his front porch pointing at my house LOL
George, I will be in touch. I have the first two weeks off in Nov. every year. I would love to meet you!!! Shawn
Sucks to be you. That is GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!
This pic from the front door is a couple of years old now, but you get the idea. Its not like anything ever changes (thankfully) :D Well, actually, the grass is in a little better shape now.
(http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/7605/autumn2004smalluo3.jpg)
Here's one from the bedroom looking in a different direction (different year as well)...
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Shawn, I know it's a bit of a drive, but if you ever get an urge to hunt the big Northwoods of Wisconsin you're welcome here anytime too.
You guys have me missing my farm....depressing. Good for you though!
-Charlie
My wife took this picture from our deck, that is me in the boat.
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I am going to have to get me a back door :banghead: the only thing is, my houses paid for, and its brand-new :clapper:
God has been so good to me that way, I've been blessed with a wonderful wife, good health, the friends I have church, and the friends I have here.
I guess that's what makes me appreciate
" the woods "
Land is really expensive in Minnesota, the farther you go north, I've heard some land going for $1700 an acre. I don't think I'd live that long ! To pay for all that !
So I have to enjoy what others give me the opportunity for.
Carl
Thank you, thank you, thank you !
That was right nice of you to name that lake after me ! :goldtooth: :biglaugh:
C'mon Otto... Pan up a little so we can see the roller coaster!
Great pics from you all. Keeps me dreaming of some day owning some property that I can walk out my back door, and be hunting. Thanks for keeping the dream alive.
HAW!!!!!
Most of the country around here looks much like this.
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This is what it looks like in my back yard (all 40 acres of it) in the winter time...
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QuoteOriginally posted by BrokenArrow1:
Land is really expensive in Minnesota, the farther you go north, I've heard some land going for $1700 an acre. I don't think I'd live that long ! To pay for all that !
Actually, its sad to say, but that isn't that bad. Most farmland/woodland here in SW Wisconsin is going for $2k and acre. Wish I would have bought more when it was $500/acre. :banghead:
It would be SO easy to be jealous of these views..
I choose instead to be motivated and ispired to
get my A$$est outta the city!!!!
but, by all means continue the motivation ,please.
beautiful,thats how it is roud these parts.
I would have to say that I'm not jealous, but when I do look at the photos I would like to have land like that, but also when you have land like that, he have responsibility, and somebody else after it (kids)(grandkids). Which isn't all that bad.
But I have also heard the stories of people that have land, and if it's not in the right place, you constantly chasing those that have no conscience, or no respect, in keeping them off the land. The problem with buying land in Minnesota, is eventually you have a mall put up next to you. Or House Garden
But I've been really fortunate, that God placed individuals in my life that give me the opportunity to hunt their land. Now I can't walk out on that whenever I want to, it's by invitation. But maybe next year I will have that opportunity, because the other alternative is to help someone who does have land, take down the tree stands, plant food plots, and take care of that land just like as if it's yours, and they will see that you respect them and the land. It builds a friendship, and that's irreplaceable. Maybe I am different, but God has placed me in a job that I work with archery, I hunt with people that do have land, and they walk around with me on that land like it is their living room, showing me in telling me things that they wouldn't tell others.
It's definitely a blessing, the particular land I am hunting on now, was $15,000 a lot years ago , and if he sold it now maybe well over $200,000. I could never afford that, or should I say justified that for hunting. Maybe I could if I put up a indoor shooting range of 50 yr, and the traditional bow shop, with a 3-D outside range and move my house out on that land, but that would distribute it quite a bit.
all I can say is " God is good"
Carl
I made the posting above in 2007.I had no idea at the time that I would eventually own a piece of land .As my last statement in the post above
"God is good "
I can say that again because He has given me my own land to hunt. And I have all the responsibilities that go with it !
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This Season (2010)
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How many others have land that that they didn't think they would have three years ago !
Carl
I love your pics guys,thanks for sharing
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Originally posted by BrokenArrow1:
Land is really expensive in Minnesota, the farther you go north, I've heard some land going for $1700 an acre. I don't think I'd live that long ! To pay for all that !
Thats a bargin,here in S.E.PA you can pay $100,000 or more for an acre you can build on. For what my wife and i payed for our house on 10 acres i could buy the whole state of Minnesota at $1,700 an acre,LOL.
I want to know where you guys got those back doors? I need to get one for my Apt.
Thanks in advance... :saywhat:
pic taken thru glass on my front door.
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Front door..been trying to sell. Gonna be very hard to leave if it does.
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Yes I remember saying the $1700 was expensive !
Per acre ,The average around here is $2000 an acre .(hunting ground)
But I have to say I was fortunate on my 40 .
Now I just have to find a good source to build some food plots ,And a water hole .
Carl
my piece of paradise
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