A visit to "The Land"

Well, after putting a significant portion of my pay check toward paying off "The Land" as we refer to it during the first years of our marriage, I finally got to see more than just a drive by view of our land investment over the 4th of July! It really is a beautiful undeveloped piece of land with rolling hills, a small lake, etc.(about 1 hr 15 minutes from the Twin Cities adjacent to the Kimball, MN Golf Course.) Paul, Ace and I did a bit of hiking around the interior of the land, which was an adventure which Ace LOVED, but it was quite hot and sort of buggy so we called it a day and headed back to the Twin Cities. Paul even brought home a few wood ticks unexpectedly -- what a treat!>@?#!

We do not know exactly what we'll eventually do with this land, but in the short run I guess we are very thankful we invested in this rather than putting more money in the stock market over these past couple of years. Also, regardless of the future appreciation potential as my mom might say, if all "goes to Hell in a hand basket" we can pitch a tent and live off this land!!! (Let's hope that never happens as about 3 days of camping is about all I can take and wood ticks are not an acceptable accessory!!) LOL!! We hope to make another trip up this winter and do some snow shoeing or maybe even cross country skiing. Paul has even been talking about maybe having a guys "shooting day" if we can find a time this Fall.