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To: Kartographer

We bought our 12 acre farm in rural Kentucky two weeks before the 2008 election. We moved here from our home of 45 years, Seattle, in August of 2011. You can't see the house unless you are on the top of the property near the house. The "yard" is about 8 acres.

It is like paradise. Literally. And it is how we feel about it. Every day.

The monthly payments are less than the taxes were on our place in Seattle. The commute is longer, but I drive it at 65-70 mph almost all the way. I still enjoy it.

I've built a few buildings since, and a large garden about 40 feet in front of the house, but here it is a month after we moved and I had completed the rear deck.

I can shoot deer or Turkey out my bedroom window, though the latter is very skittish. We have 22 chickens now that free-range around the house. For fun I hand feed them cracked hickory nuts from our trees. They climb all over me trying to get at them. Evenings are quite often just as beautiful and inviting as the photo suggests. And when the SHTF, it won't be pretty, but we'll survive. Probably.

I highly recommend going Galt. It can be done.

30 posted on 11/27/2012 4:42:19 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)

That is the most awesome picture...congrats to you.

32 posted on 11/27/2012 5:10:25 AM PST by Mich Patriot (PITCH BLACK is the new "transparent")

If you EVER plan to sell that place, please let me know.

33 posted on 11/27/2012 5:12:08 AM PST by BobL (You can live each day only once. You can waste a few, but don't waste too many.)

Welcome to the Bluegrass, FRiend!

36 posted on 11/27/2012 5:24:34 AM PST by ItsOurTimeNow ("This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around.")

Beautiful! I love the Bluegrass.

I’m sure many here have read Rawles’ books - Patriots, Survivors, Founders...
the stories contain several bug out scenarios.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wesley_Rawles

37 posted on 11/27/2012 5:40:39 AM PST by spankalib (The downside of liberty is the need to tolerate those who despise it.)

Dude, that’s tremendous. Especially in rural KY; used to be in Louisville/Lexington.

56 posted on 11/27/2012 9:11:07 AM PST by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)

72 posted on 11/27/2012 12:44:16 PM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)

“I highly recommend going Galt. It can be done.”

We have gone Galt, in place. We have a secure location, and we do not plan to ‘escape’...we are where we should be when the SHTF. We are continuing to prep here and to secure the place. We will be ready...

89 posted on 11/28/2012 7:58:24 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders.)

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