But the other thing is, even if Dee doesn’t want or need anyone else driving her guys, I bet she and Denise would know anyone else who would be willing to do a half lease.
Rebecca
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Depending on where Zap goes in the 4, he might just be cruising 
The Leaders don’t do half the work the Wheelers do.
But, being a mini, he’s probably doing his part+
Hope you & @M_al find a mini who needs a job.
If I were closer… 
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LOL, we’re recruiting everyone to move to CO …
Also, the place we’re training has a small (fenced!) dressage court, a cones enclosure and a pretty big (still enclosed) field for marathon and … what do you call it when you do some cones, then go into a marathon obstacle and make several turns through and back, then come out and do more cones? Pretty nice setup. Functional if not fancy!
I’m being the pushy one to spare Rebecca … hahaha, being one of “those” moms comes in handy sometimes. I’ll get her in a situation where she’s driving more than now - although winter is a GREAT time to be a fair weather driver, here. Lots of “not just no but HELL NO” days but hopefully they’re interspersed with enough pleasantly warm winter days where the footing has dried.
I totally want to be the person on the back of the carriage in the mini 4 in hand. Dream realized - I could die happy. Unfortunately I’m so green I have NO IDEA what I don’t know, lol.
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I’d call that FUN! 
Okay, Enabler.
Send me links to small farm (5ac is fine) listings under $400K & I’ll start packing
But now, I have to layer up & go out into today’s 24F “feels like 15” 
to feed horses.
Chickens had no desire to leave the coop this morning, when it was in the teens. All 5 stayed huddled under the heatlamp.
The Good News: we get into mid 40s starting tomorrow.
Yay? 
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I’m right there packing with ya! It will be a caravan.
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That would make you the M_al-i-gator! I wish I’d come up with it, but someone who doesn’t post (and who prefers to remain anonymous) said it.
Rebecca
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I would so love to have you and @2DogsFarm close by! I know you have too many things tying you to where you live, but I can dream, can’t I?
Rebecca
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I got Nuthin’ holding me here 
& CO would be closer to my only relative: my brother in NV.
& The HS friend I may or may not reconnect with. 
M_ali- gator 
You would certainly have friends here!
Rebecca
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2 Words:
Findme Afarm
Now you know, I cheat 
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ZOMG, I am dying! Best anonymous pun! 
I wanna be the Malligator! I can lounge on a sandbank. (Wait, that’s a crocodile.)
Nope, see ya later!
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Enabler here … c’mon … you know you want to … 
Here’s a lot ready for tiny house! And barn. And veg garden.
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/17804-Keller-Dr_Berthoud_CO_80513_M16820-20617?from=srp-list-card
This one is LEGIT about to have value skyrocket - I’m just a few miles from this one (sadly, not on land - in a development) and there are many horse properties remaining or as dedicated “horse” housing areas.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4100-E-145th-Ave-1-Brighton-CO-80602/2069254372_zpid/
If you want to be more remote with a bigger buffer …
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4689-Vindale-Ln-Byers-CO-80103/2070620235_zpid/
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Wowza!
You’re hired!
#1 would blow my budget, I’d have to live in the barn w/horses
#2 also likely out of reach, unless I could sell for more than I think 
#3 price is right, but more acreage than I think I can handle 
& When you say “remote”, how far to that general store, feedstore, etc?
You could put this on it …
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🙅Get thee behind me, Satan(ess)!
Actually, I’ve been lurking on this place’s page, drooling, for years:
https://www.recreationalresortcottages.com/rrc-try-buy
They come with everything shown except furniture & I’ve got my own stuff - including a quirky “heirloom” kitchen cabinet I’ve had over 40yrs. Came from an empty brick house that for some weird reason was on the back half of the small City lot (25X125) where my MIL had her woodframe house at the front.
& The iron bedstead I’ve had since 1969.
Just a double, but it served DH & me for 30+yrs & is roomy enough for me & a cat or 2 
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Oooh, I like the RRC idea … hm, is it worth trying to travel there just to try it?
Also, LOVE the iron bedstead. I bought one out of a (literally) tumbledown old house in AL in the 80s and had it refinished. It was slightly smaller than a modern double but I made it work for years.
Re: property #3, it’s out to the east (the direction the metro is expanding) but only 45 minutes away from Denver International Airport. It has easy access to 2 major highways (I-70 and US 36) so until it’s fully eaten up by developments it’s really easy to zip around to other parts of the metro and state. The town of Byers is currently included in the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood Metropolitan Statistical Area. There are a couple of feed stores and a veterinary supply store there locally.
Re: “handling” land here … lol, nothing really grows a ton that’s not under irrigation so you can let it go au-naturel and make wildlife habitat. Or invite the eventers in to do fencing maintenance and build natural jumps. You have the option of “civilizing” only the parts you need for your tiny living situation, garden and mini-keepin’.
Hell. You and @cayuse can subdivide the 35 acres for $100k each!
(Chants) DO IT! Do It! do it! DO IT! Do It! do it! (C’mon @RMJacobs … join in!)
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@RMJacobs @M_al @cayuse
Nowayinhell I can get away before January, February probably more likely & I hate leaving a farmsitter to do chores in awful weather.
But, I am sorely tempted by #3 
With 17.5ac apiece I think I could handle sharing.
Now I’ve got Dream Material
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My bed came from a field. Literally.
& rode home to Chgo on top a VW Bug. For $10.
From 1969 junkman Harley Rhodes in MI whose stuff was just scattered all over what was probably a 5ac field.
Funny how I recall his name, but the town escapes me. Odd how memory works…
I originally rustoleum-ed it chocolate brown, then in the late 70s, DH (then SO) had it nickel-plated.
At first I was disappointed, I’d pictured a satin finish, like the coin. But it’s a dull silver that’s grown on me.
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Is that an orange pitcher I see in your cabinet? I have one just like it if it is, a present from mom years ago. It’s not Fiestaware but something similar, Hall maybe.
