The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[Don 27]

i could never live in a place like that, if i own it, i decide what i like, not them and what i can and can't do on my property

yep except you have neighbors that are more than happy to complain about you

 

[Don 27]

I'm happy to report that there was no crying today by children or teachers picture day was a success
Two weeks until the break

Hope everyone had a great day and that your evening is great too.

Nice!!!!

 

[Don 27]

Quite true... My land is in a smidgen of the Sonoran Desert. Which is a HUGE desert. Goes way down into Mexico and up into Arizona and parts of Texas I believe.

Brush Rabbits are coastal and Native to the area. Their range goes far inland to my area and down into Baja California. Oh and Jack Rabbits are not rabbits but Hares... Which means their babies are born with hair and their eyes open...
None of them need to drink water... but will if its available. I put out a low watering bowl when I am up there... fed by a float valve. This way no one dies in the water tub for the horse which is 110 gallons.

https://www.desertmuseum.org/books/nhsd_rabbits.php

I have family in the Mojave.... My place is tropical compared to the Mojave. to give you an idea Death valley is in the Mojave... The town of Baker is near Death valley they have a big sign that shows the temperature outside... My son and I stopped there to refuel He wanted to stay in the car When I opened the door the blast furnace hit me... and I said no... come in and wait inside.

That thermometer showed 120 degrees... It was like sticking your head in an oven...

Deserts are different... Mild Hot and some are very very cold. Alaska even has a desert. The criteria that makes a desert is annual rainfall, or precipitation. Some deserts haven't recorded rainfall in Several decades... My little patch of heaven gets about twelve inches per year... Rain and or Snow.

wow vary interesting that would make sense tho deserts are more known to be dry vs hot. So when you do get ran fall and snow I would imagine it gets muddy and the plants probably come out of dormancy or the plants that go dormant in the first place do.

I do not like the sound of death valley!!!

 

[Don 27]

I have my live till I die location... nineteen acres that cannot be split.... a livable well. Isolation but I know um er used to know each of my neighbors. There is forty acres next to me and I dearly would love to buy that... Maybe some day. Solar power, Wind power and alternative power sources are feasable and very doable at home. I know enough about each Circa 2009 and 10 ...

I so want t build an earth ship. Using recycled materials and such.... Built an integrated green house..... Oh wait I have one of those...

Well you get the picture.

Not going anywhere.

deb

sounds like a good dream to have!! One day it will come true you are already on your way. What do you plan on doing with the extra 49 acres? Farm land perhaps? I'm kidding! My dream would be to buy back all the land around here that was parceled off and dynamite all the houses out and convert it all back to farm land like it was in the 1800s . Keep dreaming Don!!! .

Here's the farm house . It's over 100 years old.

here's the land that was parceled off, this in an older photo but what's in white is what the original farmer owned. I figured that out by looking at owner history Robert Huff owned all the parcels all together about 150 acres. But any way now there's houses scattered around on this land and all the old fields are all grown up . Trees and brush are taking root and generations of hard labour is slowly disappearing back to a woods. Farmer's only had a axe a hand saw and a par of horses to clear this much land. It was all a large woods when first set foot on. The barn in the picture was made from some of the trees that were cleared. You can see in the back what the farmer has not cleared yet. The woods has started spreading into the unmanaged field.

 

[perchie.girl]

Holy crap!!! I wonder who voted those laws in? I would never live their even if some one was willing pay me to.

they are Home Owners Association rules. Usually set up initially by the builder but then the association forms and they have monthly meetings to address issues within a very very dense housing situation.

Homes that close to gether and or Condos have Safety concerns and issues with regard to fire and appearance. So a committee presides over issues brought forward by complaints and or suggestions by residents.

There is something similar within communities that are not so densely poplulated and that would be Rules and Covenents... There is a community here that will not allow a certain style of home to be built..... Because the community wants to represent to the rest of the county as a Rustic Touristy commu8nity... So Log cabins are good old tyme Construciton with a western front are good. Yata Yata... but no poured in place tilt up slab construction...

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

wow vary interesting that would make sense tho deserts are more known to be dry vs hot. So when you do get ran fall and snow I would imagine it gets muddy and the plants probably come out of dormancy or the plants that go dormant in the first place do.

I do not like the sound of death valley!!!

yep i have never been there Baker was enough for me... Highest ever recorded temperature was 134 F at Furnace Creek in 1913... the record apparently still stands.

Though the Borax museum looks to be awesome.... some examples of the first steam engines used as tractors are there There are temperate times to visit in the fall and the spring...

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

wow vary interesting that would make sense tho deserts are more known to be dry vs hot. So when you do get ran fall and snow I would imagine it gets muddy and the plants probably come out of dormancy or the plants that go dormant in the first place do.

I do not like the sound of death valley!!!

No mud really to speak of... The road that goes through the property becomes a very flat stream bed... Still hard as ever underneath. even with a couple of inches of water flowing across it.

but yeah the Mountain lilac will look like a huge dead bush about three to four feet tall... All its branches folded up... When It gets rain it relaxes a bit grows leaves madly and in the spring will bloom with White flowers... the ones by the coast bloom with purple flowers...

But yea the wild floweer season is about in February march... the snow comes through IN January February... all Seventy two hours of it. Like I said the plants are aggressive they only have a short window to grow mature and propigate.... Maybe two to three weeks.

One month bare ground Then comes the green and finally the hills will be awash with Yellow purple and white flowers. My neighbor calls them belly flowers... because you cant see their detail till you lay on your belly... Many are only the size of a pencil eraser.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

sounds like a good dream to have!! One day it will come true you are already on your way. What do you plan on doing with the extra 49 acres? Farm land perhaps? I'm kidding! My dream would be to buy back all the land around here that was parceled off and dynamite all the houses out and convert it all back to farm land like it was in the 1800s . Keep dreaming Don!!! .View attachment 1975594 Here's the farm house . It's over 100 years old. View attachment 1975595here's the land that was parceled off, this in an older photo but what's in white is what the original farmer owned. I figured that out by looking at owner history Robert Huff owned all the parcels all together about 150 acres. But any way now there's houses scattered around on this land and all the old fields are all grown up . Trees and brush are taking root and generations of hard labour is slowly disappearing back to a woods. Farmer's only had a axe a hand saw and a par of horses to clear this much land. It was all a large woods when first set foot on. The barn in the picture was made from some of the trees that were cleared. You can see in the back what the farmer has not cleared yet. The woods has started spreading into the unmanaged field.

actually probably nothing except build a house on it... An Earth ship. Half under ground with only certain walls above. I do believe thats what the original builder of my house was trying to do... He was growing orchids in my green house... my first summer there when it was ninety degrees outside it would be around 115 in that green house room... But he didnt think it through properly.

Beautiful land you have there... So much greeen.... Nice place to raise up some sheep or goats a steer or two and maybe even grow some pasture...

Here everything is grown else where and trucked in for livestock.

deb

 

[drumstick diva]

From my childhood days remember Ronald Reagan and his 20 mule team for Borax.

I guess with inflation it would be a 40 mule team now.

 

[drumstick diva]

p.s. Sean sleeps with one eye open - you can't put anything over on him