Wonderful! Congrats!!

How fabulous! That is absolutely gorgeous.

Wow! Love that setting and the buildings and the trailer. Congrats, Marilyn.

It all looks wonderful...perfect for you. I am so very happy for you.

Great property, Marilyn. Very happy for you!

Amazing!!!! Looks fantastic!!!

That looks like a perfect place for you! I echo what others asked, how many trips will it take to get all the animals moved?

WOW!! Amazing!! So happy for you and all the animals!! Best of luck and have fun making lots of new & happy memories :)

That property is a dream! It would be like having your own whole world! Can't wait to see all your animals once you get settled.

Congratulations Marilyn!!! I missed any previous posts about your upcoming move. This is a perfect place for you! All set up and ready to move in with your beloved animal family.

Are you familiar with the area? Do they have a feed supply store? Will you have a doctor, or have to come back here?

Omg this is big news! I have a million questions, but suffice to say it looks beautiful and will be perfect for handling the animals. I see a lot of good things about the property – fencing, air conditioning in the mobile home, and the barn is excellent.

My wish for you is that someone could eventually move into the mobile home and help manage the animals. I know you don’t like this kind of “help “but maybe someday you could find someone who is more help than bother. You work so hard.

I’m very happy for you.

That's wonderful, Marilyn. So happy for you and the animals, too. Don't envy you the moving part,but once it's over, it will be great.

Marilyn I am happy for you, that is an enormously good deal and beautiful. How close is the feed store and grocery shopping?

What a great place - when will you make settlement? I hope it all goes smoothly.

I can't even describe how beautiful that place is. What a gorgeous part of the country. It looks so peaceful.

I can totally see why you love it. A palace and heaven for the animals and a trailer for the people ;) I'm just kidding!! The trailer looks very nice, and I know you'll build a house! I'd live there in a heartbeat.

I responded to your post on another thread about your buying this property, but let me say again....Fantastic piece of property! Just FANTASTIC! I agree with arkansas girl....in that I'd just live in it. Yes....my mom had a mobile home and there are heating and cooling issues...wind will rock it....the roof needs tar every few years, pipes need insulating if it freezes there...? But it's a nice space in THAT trailer....and keeping some cash handy....isn't a bad thing either. I know you've thought of that already. :0)

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S !

Marilyn, i also missed the posts about having a contract on a new place. It looks perfect for you. Have you sold your current property yet?

The thread where I wrote about moving is the one Lucille started about Sigh, Rain again.

We have a buyer, and they close on their place July 12. We close on July 19. It is flexible.

I found several places that I liked, but couldn't do anything until we had something definite about selling this.

Meanwhile, every place I liked sold. My buyers wanted this place really bad but had to sell theirs first. They had a buyer but that person had to sell first too. Sheesh! This could take for freakin' ever! But their buyer sold in two days, so that moved everything along. It has been beyond stressful for me, because it is hard to find a place that would work for us, in the price range we could afford. And I was afraid we would come down to the wire and have to hustle trying to find a place.

Congratulations on your move, Marilyn! The property looks really lovely, and lots of room for the animals. I hope that things go smoothly with the move and that you are soon comfortably settled.

Best wishes for a timely closing and the smoothest move possible.

Oh you will love it there! The barn is great. Looking forward to seeing pictures once you get everyone moved in.

Good luck1 Moving is always stressful.

We've driven through Lufkin several times. I like the scenery. It reminds me of where I grew up. We know a family from there.

OH WOW!! I am so happy for you. Life will be much easier for all of you. Of course there is the move, no fun or ease in that. I hope with the time spent with you and the other horses the un loaders will load for the trip. Will be sending good wishs your way for the move.

"Of course, some would say get rid of the horses and move to town, where every thing is convenient. That won't happen. Most of my horses are rescues and they are old. I will never get rid of them. I may have to put them down some day and when I do, I hope I can put myself down too. I cannot live in town. I am not your average little old lady. I would be the most miserable person on earth."

I'm with you on that! people thought I was nuts to move out into nowhere in the desert - but I love it. a close friend said he gave me a year before I moved back to town. that was 20 yrs ago. when the house I lived in sold and I had to move out and it was hard to find a rental that would allow dogs, my sister told me to 'get rid of the dogs'... my reply was'I'll sleep in my car with them before I get rid of them!' your new place is absolutely beautiful! The mobile home looks really nice too. after you build maybe you can find someone to help with the animals in return for a place to live.

It looked like such nice sandy soil and I love the pine trees down the drive. You are going to have SO much less work to do, since you don't have to fight all the mud.

Looks fantastic!

What a beautiful spot you have found. Congratulations and I'm so glad everything fell into place. Hopefully the move will go smoothly. It seems like its a good time to move. Do post pics when the menagerie are all settled into their new homes.

I too saw you mention that you were moving but couldn't remember any mention of it so I thought I was losing my memory! thanks to Texas Gem for asking about it. This move deserves/requires its own thread.

You said some other places you'd like had been sold before you were ready, but this seems pretty darn perfect! I hope you have many happy years there.

Lufkin or Nacogdoches should have all you would need, thankfully the internet gives us country dwellers access to so much. The pace of life is much slower there, enjoy!

One of the nice things about the barn, two of the partitions between stalls come out, making a 12 x 36 space. I can go out on bad weather days or at night and work with my 2 young horses...or even just brush and hang out with my old guys. It is a little much to even contemplate right now. I haven't lived in a finished house in 20 years.

I wouldn't mind having someone live on the place to help, if I can find someone I trust.

There is one thing I don't like about the place, and that is the road. Here all the side roads are asphalt. My road here has 2 houses on it and the county recently built a new asphalt road. The one they tore up was perfectly fine. This is the second time they have repaved the road since I moved here 20 years ago. A dead end road with 2 houses. However, in east Texas, once you get off the highway, it is dirt and very little gravel. I don't know if it is that way all over...I was surprised at how bad they are. We took a wrong turn and I didn't think we would make it out. No shoulder, deep ruts, narrow, winding. Heavy forest on both sides. I was ready to call the whole thing off and go home. At least "our" road doesn't go through the forest.

An idea- looking at a track map there are tracks from where you live Marilyn to Lufkin, there is also a private carrier, Angelina and Neches River Railroad. I wonder if it would be possible to rent a stock car and an all purpose freight car and move almost everything in one fell swoop?

Marilyn - I'm sure you've already checked but will the weather be much different when you move to your new home? I don't know much about the weather in Texas. My brother lives in Spring, just N of Houston and he's managed to avoid all the flooding that so many others have experienced.

What a great property! I'm so glad that you found something that you like and that seems like it will work well for you and your animals.

This looks to be IN a National Forest! Can that BE? Might explain the road situation.

You have an interesting life. Love your new place. I can’t believe what you can get for the money. I may have to move to Apple Springs. Much happiness in your new place.

It is near the National Forest, but I don't know anything about the area, really. However, driving on the highway on the way there, we drove for miles and never passed another vehicle. There aren't a lot of people who live around there. The lady who lives there said there was no money for roads...evidently that county doesn't have much money.

Lucille, I don't know if you were serious about the rail car. But livestock aren't shipped by rail any more. This isn't Barnum and Bailey circus. :D

I don't mind hauling the horses in several trips. I do what's best for them, which in the

long run, is best for me, too. I don't have much furniture, so a rental truck will handle that.

Maire_cate....it is only 165 miles from here, so it may be a little colder in the winter. It isn't in a flood plain, so shouldn't flood.

It looks awesome. I'm really happy for you Marilyn!

That seems like the perfect place for your animals, Marilyn. I am so happy you found the place and have a closing date and that you have the closing date on your current home set up. Like dominoes. Everything is falling into place.

I'm glad you found such a nice place and things are working out for you

Your new place sounds really nice Marilyn. I so hope it all works out just like you are hoping.

Sue in Central Indiana

We are looking for updates after you move in. I am SO jealous, I would love a farm like that.

It looks like you've found a little piece of heaven for you and your critters! Congratulations!

Thank you everyone. I think we are getting out of here at a good time. The loop 610 goes around Houston. Beltway 8 goes around that, and way out beyond that loop is the Grand Parkway. It isn't completely finished, but a part of it is being built a few miles from where we live. It then goes through Kemah and Seabrook, which is on the bay, where Jody keeps his boat. It eventually ties up with part built in Baytown, and continues on around Houston. There is a bridge between Kemah and Seabrook, and it is going to be replaced with a 6 lane bridge.

We went to a funeral today and came back that way to check the boat. The traffic was backed up for miles. On weekends, it is worse. It is a nightmare. Makes me really want to go live somewhere that has a much slower pace. Jody is thinking about moving his boat closer to the Louisiana border, and shrimping out of there.

That is a beautiful piece of property, Marilyn. The barn is fantastic as well. Heck, I'd be tempted to move into the barn! How nice and convenient that you will have that wonderfully maintained trailer to live in. It looks like it's been well taken care of and it should serve you well while you decide what to do about permanent living quarters.

Congratulations to you and the critters!

Oh Marilyn, I am so-o-o-o-o-o-o happy for you! ! ! !

That barn is a dream! ! ! And the trailer looks to be very well maintained, and could be quite a comfy place to live. Certainly adequate while you are getting yourselves and your animals settled into the new surroundings. And getting a 'real' house built. It all sounds pretty exciting, even though the actual move sounds like a bad dream, if not a nightmare. But it will be so worth it! I do hope you and Jody will have help with it!

I'm curious, will you continue with animal rehabbing, possums and such? And if you do, will you be able to still get the help with animal food?

Congratulations and good luck!

Rusty

I posted and it messed up and I tried to fix it and it still messed up, so will start over.

Yes, I will probably still rehab possums and armadillos, although I have only raised 3 little possums since the flood.

JJody will still be around to pick up food, if the person I rehab with and who lines it up will still give it to me. She doesn't want us to move very far away...thinks we don't need that much land. Tried to tell her once, and not going to repeat myself about it over and over. She thinks all we need is 5 acres. No.

Anyway, I could use the food...I am taking 15 feral cats when I go, but I can manage without it. I think I will still get the food. We get so much, no one else knows what to do with it.

Marilyn, that looks like a great place! I'm happy for you. Wish I could help you move.

Congratulations! You are certainly getting your money's worth.