What do you do for fun, Watermark?
I like where I live because of the people here and my hobbies. My life revolves around hunting, fishing and gardening when I don’t have to work. I schedule my vacations to avoid interfering with the afore mentioned activities as best I can. There are so many people I can call on in a pinch if I need help of some kind, and they’ll come running. Of course they know I’d do the same for them.
For instance, I was adding a wing onto my house and had hired a fellow to pour the footing. He had everything ready and the cement truck on its way but rain had made it so the cement truck couldn’t get close enough for the chute to reach the footing ditch. He was panicked because he was getting ready to have us stuck with $1200 of cement. I made one call and a neighbor (lives about 2 miles from me) came driving his tractor with a front end loader over and we used it to transport the cement to the footing.
Later the guy I had hired asked me how much “that guy” charged me for doing that? I told him, “Nothing.” The guy said, “I don’t have a single friend that would do that.” That’s sad, IMO. That neighbor I called was one of about 10 people who I immediately thought of who I knew would come help.
I can step out my back door an go hunting...got a 12,000 acre WMA with lots of game that borders my place. I’m 5 minutes from putting my boat in the lake.
I don’t doubt there are other such areas in the world where a person can enjoy such a life as I do, but for me, this is the place I plan to live until I’m too old to stay.
So I don’t expect you’d like it much here but that’s ok. Too many people get to liking it and try to squeeze in I’d Probably not enjoy it nearly as much.
