Recent content by hillrunner

Holy cow, that's cool!

What is it?

Making maple syrup, building I know how to do well.

One of many skills I don't have but wish I did. It's not something you hear much about in Iowa. I'm sure I could get an education from YouTube. Maybe that's what I should do this afternoon.

I was inspired by this post and started stacking my firewood on pallets this winter. I'm looking forward to next year when I can just pick up a pallet and bring it to the house.

I'd be prepared to deal with hunters in blinds popping up in the fields around your sanctuary if it starts to become known for deer. Those deer will be very visible in the evenings. It'd be ideal if you could own some crop ground around it as a buffer. The distance from other cover wouldn't...

Yeah, it all sucks, but here we are. It needs to happen one way or another and they weren't doing it. Again, 1 trillion dollars every 100 days.

Congress can't or won't do it? 1 trillion dollars further in debt every 100 days. Someone needs to do something. That's 1,000,000,000,000.

If you are interested in learning more about usaid, I'd suggest checking out Mike benz. He's been talking about usaid for years and is extremely well versed on the subject. He's been making the podcast rounds recently. I listened to his interview on the shawn ryan podcast. He was also...

I haven't heard anything about a dividend check, I hope that's untrue. I also hate seeing the debt ceiling raised. I thought we were going to balance the budget? Like it or not, that's going to mean getting rid of a massive number of federal employees. The federal payroll should have never...

That sounds like a great place . I love remote areas, I don't need a lot of people around me.

What would the wildlife look like on a piece like that? I'm not shopping, I'm just curious.

Is it common for people to try and put together larger recreational properties or is it more common to have small camps and do their hunting on public forest ground? I'm intrigued by wild area of this country that do not resemble the Midwest where I've spent my life. I've never been to Maine...

How good of prices are we talking?

I found 18 last year on one property. This year I'm up to 7 on a different property. Both properties have a pond near switchgrass. They seem to prefer laying down in that as opposed to going back into the timber. It might just be that it's easier since the timber is uphill and the switch is...