Looking For Some Property

We took a trip up to Tennessee to see what kind of land is available for purchase up there.

This one was 36 acres. Luann, Karen & Teena (our real estate rep) are here with me, walking the length of the fenceline of this acreage. When I used my GPS to find out how far back it goes, it turned out to be 1/4 of a mile from front to back. Whew! Unfortunately, it was not what we were looking for, so off to the next one!

As we were looking for the next property, we stopped near this tree to get our bearings. Karen just had to jump out of the truck and show everybody how much of a tree hugger she really is. She seems to have chosen a beautiful specimen of an oak for her demonstration...

Well, we finally made it to the next place on the list and found that it was simply loaded with "Tennessee Charm". First off, the 'window shaker' air conditioner was being propped up by this branch cut from a cypress tree. We could also see that the foundation was separating and beginning to fall into the creek beside the house. Uhmmmm, just a wee bit more than a 'fixer-upper'!

Around the back of the house, this monster chicken coup was just a little less than useless. Both it and the utility building were falling down just like the house.

A lttle farther back and we came across this storage building that was definitely sliding into the creek behind it.

This is the horse barn, something that hasn't seen horses in a while. Or maintenance either, for that matter. As the wood started to rot away, metal sheeting was tacked on in its place. Unfortunately, this left the whole thing in an unstable mess...

The third property had a weird address and we just couldn't locate it. At this point, we said our goodbyes to Teena and struck out out for Tommy & Sharon's place.

On the way back, we came across this really nice creek, so we stopped and took some pictures.

We really liked the way it washed across the road.

At some point in our photo shoot, Karen laid down in the middle of the road in order to perform her imitation of a piece of roadkill. Of course, I don't remember ever seeing an opossum flattened out in the middle of the road, holding a digital camera...

From this shot, you can see the real reason she flopped down in the middle of the road. She was showing Luann that these country roads are so lightly traveled, that you could lay out in the middle of one without having to scurry out of the way of a car within seconds of doing so. In truth, I did something like this when I was working in northern Michigan and decided to park my rental car in the middle of a dirt road intersection, eating lunch for half an hour. The funny thing is, I did the exact same thing the next day and dined for yet another half an hour still unmolested by vehicular traffic. Been there, done that. I think there's a special kind of looney-ness that runs in our family...

Yeah, if we could find some water like this on a piece of property we could afford, we would be happy.

It's amazing how theraputic the sound of rushing water is to the soul. Even water running across the roadway. We just wanted to sit there and soak up the surroundings.

In our wanderings, we saw a For Sale sign on this piece of acreage, and when we walked around, here was this old, abandoned Dodge pickup just sitting in the woods for who knows how long. Nah, we didn't want to buy somebody else's old junkyard. And the neighbors, that was a cemetary. Yep, another dose of 'Tennessee Charm'...

Luann came across an interesting sign on this door. It looks like crime only happens between 7:30AM-4:30PM Monday through Friday in Hohenwald. Since that's the only time that the local police station is open! This place is neat...

When we were leaving Hohenwald and heading back home, we stopped by this site dedicated to Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis & Clark expedition.

The long, asphalt roadway is all that will greet us for the next 12 hours...