If I won the lottery...

[Kali]

I would buy the little ranch to the east. Owned or leased by at least 7 or 8 different entities since I was a kid, it has no legal access, which seems to be both protecting it from development and hindering everybody that has had it. My Grandparents lived in this little two room shotgun adobe when they were first married and it is known to locals as the "Honeymoon House." We have always called it the Murphy Place, although I have no clue who Murphy was. It is about a mile away as the crow flies, or horse walks, but by vehicle it takes an hour over rough utility right-of-ways. It looks east to the Dragoon Mountains and the West Stronghold (Cochise) and south to Mexico up the San Pedro Valley. I love its isolated quiet.

[Ptah]

1. nice

:thumbsup:

[JohnnyLib2]

3. Love it, hope someday you have it.

:thumbsup:

What are the shrub/trees? Maybe creosote?


SORRY, MISPLACE POST!

[Kali]

4. mostly mesquites that haven't leafed out yet

another week to ten days at this altitude!

[hippywife]

2. I love it!

And I hope you can someday own it back into the family. :hi:

[Kali]

5. thanks!

as far as I know it hasn't ever actually been owned by the family - my grandparents lived and worked on other ranches before Grandpa came back to take care of the family place. Grandma taught school (didn't they all?) - she was from your part of the country originally (Stillwater, OK)

[skygazer]

6. Wow, I love it!

I love that wild, open country. I've always lived in forested mountains but country like that takes my breath away.

[Kali]

7. it looks open

until you try to find cows in that brush:rofl:

[Dulcinea]

8. It looks like the set of a Western movie!

Pretty cool to a lifelong Easterner :)

If I won the lottery, I would pay off my house, pad out the IRAs & kids' college funds, & tell corporate America to go screw itself, in that order.

[Call Me Wesley]

9. Very nice!

But what is that fenced thing next to it in the last picture? Waterhole, sewage tank?

[Kali]

10. water storage

it's kind of built into the hillside so the "low" side was fenced off to keep livestock out of it. have to wonder if it was from actual foresight/planning or one or more bad experiences :o

no indoor plumbing that I can detect, there must have been an outhouse, but I can't find any signs of it. Not sure where household water came from either - perhaps a bucket from this tank?

here is a "newer" windmill that supplied it, about a half mile away, originally there was a wooden tower - it is still laying around in pieces on the ground, but I can remember it still standing a few years ago.