Nevadans?

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Hey guys! Very exciting news. DH & I went on a vacation and got a BIG souvenir. We're in the throes of escrow now on and you can be sure I checked and double-checked if chickens are allowed. (They are!) Coop would go out by the veggie garden. It's got a mega well, so lots of irrigation for the orchard and small vineyard and lawns. We're rather stoked because this was one of those "in your dreams" homes that I lusted after on-line (an actual cookbook chef/philanthropist had built it and its monster kitchen) that was priced waaaaay out of reach...but the present-day elderly owners bought a house in CA closer to their kids/grandkids and didn't want to continue paying mortgage/gardener/staging fees. They had dropped the price drastically (still in the uncomfortable zone) and we bid a ways under what the next major price reduction would've been. It was accepted. Wow!

It's a bit of an older home (30 years), but all the bells and whistles and move-in ready....not like some of those "Yep, we've got projects!" houses we had toured that would've needed renovation or didn't quite fit.

Guess who's going to become a major hatchaholic now? AND an actual garden.... Ahhhh...... At last.

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Anyone have their birds become friends with wild birds? I have seen a pair of quail next to my coop for a few days now.

I used to have wild turkeys mosey around the coop. And, of course, little sparrows would always make their was through the chicken wire, scavenge what they could from the feeders, and invariably get stuck not figuring how to get back out. Don't know if they were friendly with the chickens or not as they always were rather frantic to get out.

 

[Lacy Blues]

Hey guys! Very exciting news. DH & I went on a vacation and got a BIG souvenir. We're in the throes of escrow now on and you can be sure I checked and double-checked if chickens are allowed. (They are!) Coop would go out by the veggie garden. It's got a mega well, so lots of irrigation for the orchard and small vineyard and lawns. We're rather stoked because this was one of those "in your dreams" homes that I lusted after on-line (an actual cookbook chef/philanthropist had built it and its monster kitchen) that was priced waaaaay out of reach...but the present-day elderly owners bought a house in CA closer to their kids/grandkids and didn't want to continue paying mortgage/gardener/staging fees. They had dropped the price drastically (still in the uncomfortable zone) and we bid a ways under what the next major price reduction would've been. It was accepted. Wow!

It's a bit of an older home (30 years), but all the bells and whistles and move-in ready....not like some of those "Yep, we've got projects!" houses we had toured that would've needed renovation or didn't quite fit.

Guess who's going to become a major hatchaholic now? AND an actual garden.... Ahhhh...... At last.

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Congratulations! I hope you're happy there. California though... I hope you're happy. Sounds like a dream come true!

 

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It's not California. It's Corrales, NM. Sorry. I should've clarified.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

It's not California. It's Corrales, NM. Sorry. I should've clarified.

New Mexico
I love New Mexico

 

[Flowers of Abba]

It's not California.   It's Corrales, NM.  Sorry.   I should've clarified.

My
Mothers side is in Santa Fe ... Amazing land ... Enchanting you might say;-)

 

[Lacy Blues]

It's not California. It's Corrales, NM. Sorry. I should've clarified.

Ah! New Mexico, "Land of Enchantment!" In that case, you probably WILL enjoy it and be very happy there.

I used to live in Carlsbad, NM and almost moved to Cloudcroft, NM. That is a beautiful place! If you ever get a chance to visit Cloudcroft, you should go. It's a little hole in the wall town up in a mountainous region right smack in the middle of the desert. It's close to Ruidoso, a ski resort.

When do you leave?

 

[Peep_Show]

We won't go permanently until sometime in 2014. In the meantime it'll be a vacation home. Yes, it is the Land of Enchantment....we fell in love with it. (Heck, it's 109 here in Las Vegas now. Detroit probably looks attractive) (my apologies to those enamored with the Motor City)

We spent part of this last vacation in Santa Fe. Love that town. That was a spot on our list of possible places to live, but the water situation there is nearing impossible and in Corrales the city of Albuquerque is right next door for good work prospects. Corrales is down on the Rio Grande and all the wells perc well.

I think in the garden and orchard of this particular house was the first time I had ever seen a gooseberry bush! The house comes with a greenhouse attached. Apparently the first owner/builder was a chef and philanthropist and he grew his fresh herbs in there year-round. I counted at least five different kinds of fruit trees (apple, cherry, peach, pear, plum) and a small vineyard....no idea if table or wine grapes. The garden got me...that and the kitchen. Wow!









At this juncture I would like to thank my dear departed mother for helping to make all this possible. She would be tickled because she didn't cook AT ALL and had me taking cooking lessons when I was in 2nd grade. Don't know if she was trying to make me into a Stepford daughter, but I l-o-v-e to cook and the kitchen is the first place I look in a house and determines whether I'll look further. I have always wanted two ovens. And my personal philosophy is that you shouldn't go backwards when you move otherwise it feels like camping (well, to me the kitchen and cooking, anyway). This is what that sort of early indoctrination will get ya. I don't ever intend to move again as this place is Nirvana.

 

[Peep_Show]

Reading that last post I have to admit -- sigh -- that I probably came across as a cooking snob. Sorry about that.

Don't hate me because I flavor!

 

[Lacy Blues]

Reading that last post I have to admit -- sigh -- that I probably came across as a cooking snob. Sorry about that.

Don't hate me because I flavor!

I would never hate you for that. Hire you? By all means! I HATE the kitchen! Can't help it.