Suburban Checked Out

Friday, June 19, 2020 - Alpine, TX

This morning Mike ran the Suburban back over to Alpine Auto Maintenance to have them adjust the steering one more time.  This afternoon on his walk back over to pick it up he took a picture of this flower.  I think it is some kind of weed; the leaves and stem look kind of mean.  The Suburban steering is much better now and is finally back to normal.

It was another wonderful day!

Rig Washed

Thursday, June 18, 2020 - Alpine, TX

This morning we were up at regular time. I worked for a little bit, then about 8:30am we hitched up the trailer and went to the RV wash area at the back of the RV park.  We have been sitting under an evergreen tree and we have sap all over the side of the trailer, that and it is very dusty.  

Now that it is clean we are ready to move on.  We will be leaving first thing Saturday morning.  :)

And oops, I forgot to take a picture of our nice, clean rig for the blog.

It was another wonderful day!

Drive to Limpia Creek

Saturday, June 13, 2020 - Alpine, TX

Rod and Diane are building a home up at Limpiua Crossing near Limpia Creek.  Rod has told us a lot about it, so today we decided we would drive up there and check it out.  On our way up, we stopped for lunch at the Fort Davis Drug Store.  We sat out on the front porch and had a very relaxing lunch.....social separation and no masks required

After lunch we set out to see if we would be able to find their lot.  It took us a little bit to find the right road and while we were driving around I saw these really tall, neat looking flowers.  So of course I had to stop to get a picture.  :)  They made us think of Dr. Seuss type trees.  :)  

I had Mike take a picture of me standing next to it, so you could get an idea of how tall it really is.  

Eventually we did make it to their property.  They have some really nice views and I am sure they will enjoy the area once the house is done.  Right now it is still just dirt with the well already in.  :)

It was another wonderful day!

New Property Option

Thursday, June 4, 2020 - Alpine, TX

Mike was able to find the name and contact information for Amigos Del Cielo Airport.  It turns out he is from Valparaiso, IN.....the same place our son, Tony, lives.  :)  So Mike gave him a call to see if he would be interested in selling any of the land near the runway.  Well, it just so happens he is interested, but he is getting ready to head to Indiana this weekend and will not be back in the area until late July.  He plans to keep in contact with us so we can set up a time to come see the place.  One of the properties has a house and hangar.  The house is 1800+ square feet, which is a LOT bigger than we were planning to build.  We are interested in checking it out, but we will have to wait.  

We contacted Helen and told her we were looking at something else and if this property fell through and the 43.14 acres was still available, we would reconsider it at that time.

It was another wonderful day!

Offer Rejected

Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - Alpine, TX

Well, we did not hear anything from our real estate agent, so we sent her an email.  She finally replied to let us know the sellers did not respond to the offer at all.  She was trying to get a hold of them to see if they wanted to counter or what was going on.  Eventually she did and she sent us another email stating they thought she was going to counter for them.  By this time we were fed up with the response from both.  We told her we would have to think about it.

Poor Gracie's allergies are acting up again, so she will need to wear her doughnut for a couple of weeks.  She is not happy about it at all.

It was another wonderful day!

A Man Walks into a Library

Monday, June 1, 2020 - Alpine, TX

Mike was interviewed by the gal that writes articles for the Alpine Public Library Newsletter.  She did a real nice write up on him.

Today we also made an offer on the 43.14 acre property.  The sellers have until Wednesday night to accept, reject, or counter the offer.  We shall see.  :)

It was another wonderful day!

Check out Properties

Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - Portal, AZ

Helen, our real estate agent, arrived at the lodge at about 9:00am to take us around to see the properties we had discussed with her.  The first property she took us to was 39.39 acres with a house, well, power and septic.  

Well the house was not much of house.  It was an old railroad depot that had been moved to the lot and was up on blocks.  It was not in good condition and mostly just needed to be taken away.  It was very obvious that the land gets very wet and very muddy.  There were cattle hoof prints deep in the soil, deep ruts, and serious cracking.  We found out it was in a Flood Zone "A".  This one is an absolute "No!".

Next we saw a 75.32 acre lot with a house and a couple of out buildings.  This one is also a "No!".  Nice looking but the road frequently floods and becomes a muddy, quagmire.

Neither site was where the GPS took us yesterday.  :)

Then on the way to a 40.01 acre lot we had to stop and wait for a cattle drive to pass by.  :)

Mike really liked this lot. It is a nice lot and away from people.  Our biggest concern was how far away power was.  We would have to run it about 1/3 of a mile.

There were a couple of these mounds on the land.  I am not sure what lives in them and I am not sure I want to know.  :)

Helen took us to a new listing with a couple of small structures, but it was also a "No!".  We spent more time there than I wanted because Helen needed to get pictures for the listing and Mike had to work on getting the 12' x 16' "house" and out buildings open for her.

By this time it was getting late in the afternoon and I was hot, tired and hungry.  We had 2 more properties to see, but I was almost ready to call it a day!  We did finally see the 43.17 acre lot, which is the one I really wanted to see.  

I would have to say overall this was my favorite.  We saw one more property after this one, 40.14 acres, but it was "cattle burnt" (had been overgrazed and mesquite had taken it over).  And they wanted too much money for it.  It is a "No!".

We finally said "Good-bye" to Helen, then we stopped by the Sky Islands Grill and Grocery for some much needed dinner.  It was very good!

After dinner we headed back to Alpine.  After entering New Mexico and before turning on to Hwy 9, we drove by an area with a "land-for-sale"sign that said Amigos Del Cielo and thought we would look into that when we got back to Texas.

It was another wonderful day!