BluesStringer
Les Brers
.....I LOVE where we moved to!
We got so far out in the sticks that you can't find the address on Google Maps without tricking it by entering the wrong street name. And while it's a double edged sword, our house just barely gets cell service out here. That's not because there aren't towers in the area, but because we're down in a creek-bed holler with ~100' or so hills all around us blocking them thar cell waves, plus we have a tin roof that doesn't help at all either. We had to go from ~34 mbps cable to only 6 mbps DSL when we had planned on using a dedicated data hotspot from our cell provider. As you can see by my new Location entry, our new cell situation kinda named our humble hideaway for us - "The Republic of Dead Cell Holler." Oh well, I don't do a lot of downloading or uploading anyway, so this is fine for just reading fora and getting email etc.
Anyway, just a member/human interest post here. Some pics for those who are interested. Not giving away the exact location for now, but in the Dothan, AL area generally-speaking.
'Bout half a mile in off the paved highway, you crest a hill and can see our mailbox just before the dirt road takes a curve to the left:
Look to the right about where I was standing when I took the above pic, and you can see the corner of our house and the unfinished pump-house. Yep, we be on well-water out'chere. Not positive, but I don't think the county water utility even comes out this far. Now all we gots to do is go full-on solar, and we'll be off the grid completely.....well.....except for this confounded interwebs thingy.....
The house is close to the road, but there's only one more address past ours and the road dead-ends at their driveway, so it ain't like traffic is a problem. Nice stand of small(ish) trees give us plenty of privacy anyway...
Went past the driveway to take this pic. I'm purposely avoiding taking shots of the front porch for now because there's a bunch of crap on it from the move, but it runs about 3/4 the width of the front of the house, and I'd estimate is about 8' to 10' deep....
Cross the driveway threshold and this is what you see. The window above the garage is a loft-like "bonus room" which GW (my Gorgeous Wife) is using as I type this for her work-from-home office. In the far background to the left you can see parts of the two outbuildings....
Standing close to the drive up to the garage looking down towards the outbuildings, the property extends down to the creek about 1,200 or so yards back....
The previous owners (and builders BTW) called the front outbuilding the "game room" because the husband held card games out there several times a month. I told him we were thinking about trying to find a band who needed some rehearsal space to rent it, and he said heck, if it's for rent, I'll take it and just keep my games goin' out here! So we shook hands and now our new (and higher) mortgage is offset by a couple hundred bucks a month. We and the old owners hit it off nicely after we got the real estate agents off our backs. The other building is a tool-shed/reloading shop/work-shop/whatever. Sellers needed a little extra time to clear out, so the trailer and misc. jungle-jive is all theirs. No hurry, they can get a little at a time every time they hold another game I reckon....
This is a little to the left of the shed and in back of it, looking down the leaf-covered trail that goes relatively unobstructed all the way down to the creek. It gets a little bit muddy down there, and it's been raining a lot the last couple of days, so I'll have to add pics of the creek later after the woods dry up a little, but it's freakin' beautiful all through the woods and down by the creek. Couple of other shots to the right showing the woods behind the shed and game-room following....
Continued in next post.....
We got so far out in the sticks that you can't find the address on Google Maps without tricking it by entering the wrong street name. And while it's a double edged sword, our house just barely gets cell service out here. That's not because there aren't towers in the area, but because we're down in a creek-bed holler with ~100' or so hills all around us blocking them thar cell waves, plus we have a tin roof that doesn't help at all either. We had to go from ~34 mbps cable to only 6 mbps DSL when we had planned on using a dedicated data hotspot from our cell provider. As you can see by my new Location entry, our new cell situation kinda named our humble hideaway for us - "The Republic of Dead Cell Holler." Oh well, I don't do a lot of downloading or uploading anyway, so this is fine for just reading fora and getting email etc.
Anyway, just a member/human interest post here. Some pics for those who are interested. Not giving away the exact location for now, but in the Dothan, AL area generally-speaking.
'Bout half a mile in off the paved highway, you crest a hill and can see our mailbox just before the dirt road takes a curve to the left:
Look to the right about where I was standing when I took the above pic, and you can see the corner of our house and the unfinished pump-house. Yep, we be on well-water out'chere. Not positive, but I don't think the county water utility even comes out this far. Now all we gots to do is go full-on solar, and we'll be off the grid completely.....well.....except for this confounded interwebs thingy.....
The house is close to the road, but there's only one more address past ours and the road dead-ends at their driveway, so it ain't like traffic is a problem. Nice stand of small(ish) trees give us plenty of privacy anyway...
Went past the driveway to take this pic. I'm purposely avoiding taking shots of the front porch for now because there's a bunch of crap on it from the move, but it runs about 3/4 the width of the front of the house, and I'd estimate is about 8' to 10' deep....
Cross the driveway threshold and this is what you see. The window above the garage is a loft-like "bonus room" which GW (my Gorgeous Wife) is using as I type this for her work-from-home office. In the far background to the left you can see parts of the two outbuildings....
Standing close to the drive up to the garage looking down towards the outbuildings, the property extends down to the creek about 1,200 or so yards back....
The previous owners (and builders BTW) called the front outbuilding the "game room" because the husband held card games out there several times a month. I told him we were thinking about trying to find a band who needed some rehearsal space to rent it, and he said heck, if it's for rent, I'll take it and just keep my games goin' out here! So we shook hands and now our new (and higher) mortgage is offset by a couple hundred bucks a month. We and the old owners hit it off nicely after we got the real estate agents off our backs. The other building is a tool-shed/reloading shop/work-shop/whatever. Sellers needed a little extra time to clear out, so the trailer and misc. jungle-jive is all theirs. No hurry, they can get a little at a time every time they hold another game I reckon....
This is a little to the left of the shed and in back of it, looking down the leaf-covered trail that goes relatively unobstructed all the way down to the creek. It gets a little bit muddy down there, and it's been raining a lot the last couple of days, so I'll have to add pics of the creek later after the woods dry up a little, but it's freakin' beautiful all through the woods and down by the creek. Couple of other shots to the right showing the woods behind the shed and game-room following....
Continued in next post.....
