Daily observations of my simple life.

Home From Texas:

I went again to Texas and this time I came home the purchaser of 70 acres. I love the small towns and friendly people in Texas. The little town of Marathon is just a joy. A friend and I stayed at Evesgarden.org. a papercrete built bed and breakfast. What an amazing job this couple has done in less than 5 years.  I swam in the beautiful lap pool, also made of papercrete with a special sealer. What a wonderful exotic room that pool is in. Then there were the gardens , oh those gardens. Just amazing. We had good company with our breakfast the next day.

Marathon has a population of 600 yet there are three motels. There is the beautiful Marathon motel that has courtyards and gardens, the beautiful historic Gage hotel and Evesgarden. It is a walking town with a lovely little book store , a coffee house, antique stores, artists gallery's, a french market, a bank, and other shops. Driving around town I saw many old adobes and churches.

A nearby town, Alpine is also a very interesting town with lots of shops that are fun to visit. A book and bead store, another bookstore, bakery, cafe, antique store. While I stayed there , a movie crew was there setting up for a movie. Little helicopters, lots of hollywood types .  Close by this town is Ft Davis another lovely little town . 

In Terlingua there is ancient rock houses the Indians built and an ancient adobe that has a long porch. This is called ,"The Porch" where locals and famous and travelers alike sit in the evening and enjoy the gorgeous sunset over the Chiso Mountains. This is Big Ben National Park. You think you can see forever and the colors change. There is a lovely restaurant with live music and lots of character and a truly beautiful gift store with bookstore in the old adobe. There are also gardens one can walk through not to mention walking down among the old stone buildings. 

Coming home I went through Albuquerque N. M. and shopped at the Farmers mkt and Trader Joes. It is a beautiful clean city sitting up againsst the mountains.

I was glad to get home and see flowers blooming, fruit on the trees, animals doing fine and a new front porch that was built while I was gone.

Life here is changing. A new mobile in front of my house and I just learned  that there has been a rezoning so now the 10 acres on the other side of me can now have 5 trailers. There are now 4 and they put in a new pad yesterday. I'm still content here as people have not moved in yet . How I will feel about it after all the move ins will depend on the type of people.The Texas land is my back up. Will have to start all over again but I can hide out in the middle of 40 acres and they are beautiful acres in a good water area.

Posted by: cactusandquail at 17:32 | link | comments (2)

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#1  18 May 2006 - 03:05

 

Good for you. Its gone crazy here. I just read where an acre in Williams last yr was 10 grand, this yr an acre is selling for 70 thou there. Where is everyone coming from? Sounds like you've found an excellent new place. How's Sage?

rustymadgal

#2  21 May 2006 - 22:19

 

Always good to have a backup plan. Good to see you back!

InMyLife

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