I plan on calling my house "Cherrycake Cottage." It's the same name I'd give my house if it was in Wyoming. :)
Otherwise, I probably would have loved to live there. It's so beautiful.
Jeff, I must say that you created a scene with this post that is wonderful.
Some people have the right idea around here. :D
I'd love to have a summer home near a lake in Northern Maine, Vermont or New Hampshire - like in the movie "On Golden Pond".
Then I'd like to have a winter home in South Florida or Hawaii.
I'd like to stay in Indiana during the spring and autumn though. Those seasons are very beautiful here.
So what is that? Three different homes? haha. Yeah, DREAM ON DAVID! :laugh: :laugh:
It's OK to have dreams. It's also OK that some are out of reach and won't come true. I don't get it when people say "Oh, when you stop dreaming" - and give in to reality I suppose - that you're just "giving up on life". Honestly, do people realize what they're saying? I explain to my friends how I need to give up on a dream of mine to go away so I can stay near my mother who is in her last days with cancer and I'm lambasted as a quitter for giving up on my dreams!
Hello!! Jeez >:(
So, it's OK to dream about Wyoming but to think logically about moving there, Jeff. I have multiple fantasies and dreams about moving abroad, etc. But like you, reality sets in pretty quick. I have limited job skills, at this time in my life my family needs me near, due to family genetics, health insurance is of extreme importance and despite what others say, I've seen what happens when you don't have these things and that trumps dreams pretty quick.
Tell you what, when I think about living in Wyoming, I think about the famous line from Thoreau's Walden, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately."
For "woods," substitute "Wyoming."
Sure, sure, I've only visited the state twice. Am I letting my imagination run away with me? More'n likely. But, so what? A man can dream, can't he?
I'm in love with those mountains, the Big Horns and the Absarokas. It'd be a sweet life, me an' my partner, if we had us a little place in or at the foot of either range, though the Big Horns would do just fine. It wouldn't need to be a big place. I always wanted a cabin like Fess Parker lived in on Daniel Boone. ;D That would be plenty big enough. A place to live deliberately. Just the basics, him and me.
We'd have us a couple of horses, named for the regional tribes, like Cheyenne, or Shoshone, or Arapaho, maybe a bay and buckskin, or a chestnut would be nice. Maybe even an "applesauce." We'd ride every day the weather wasn't too bad for the horses, because, like the sign over the fireplace at Goff Creek Lodge said, "The best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse."
And we'd have us a pickup and an SUV, or maybe a pair of pickups, one with a king cab. ;)
Yes, sir, when I feel my life is overburdened with responsibility and swamped with things, it sure is nice to think about making a fresh start and getting back to the basics, to living simply, just me and my partner.
So what's the problem?
Well, for starters, there is no partner. :-\ Probably won't be, either. And, at my time of life, I can't imagine taking off like that on my own. I fear isolation. That's what keeps me in the heart of downtown Philadelphia instead of moving out of the city. My church is around the corner. My gym is three blocks away. After twenty years in a community I have only to stop into any of our bars and I always run into someone I know to exchange a few words, have some human contact. I have a network here.
I also have a widowed, elderly father only an hour and a half travel west of here--and no siblings. Just after my mother died, when he was feeling sorry for himself, he blurted out that he and my mother should have given me a brother or sister somehow, so it wouldn't now all fall on me. Well, Pop, you should have thought of that 40 years ago. :-\ Now, what kind of a man would I be to abandon him to pursue my own dreams out West? :-\
There is also the question of earning a living. A man's first responsibility is to support himself. I have a limited set of marketable skills, and a good job here. Just what the heck would I do for a living in Ten Sleep, Wyoming? ??? Open a bar, maybe? Maybe call it the Silver Spur? I have some limited amateur experience as a bar tender, and I imagine folks drink pretty simple out there--no fancy-ass cocktails with pink paper umbrellas in the Ten Sleep Saloon, I expect. ;D Although the bartender at the Mint, in Sheridan, did know how to make a Liquid Marijuana. ... ??? ;D
But, I don't know the first thing about running a business. ... :(
But if the right Cowboy wanted me to move to Wyoming to be with him, would I do it?
What do you think?
Hell, yes, I'd do it! I'd trust in God and redline it all the way, wouldn't be able to get there fast enough. ...
A man can dream, can't he? :) ;)
It's OK to have dreams. It's also OK that some are out of reach and won't come true. I don't get it when people say "Oh, when you stop dreaming" - and give in to reality I suppose - that you're just "giving up on life". Honestly, do people realize what they're saying? I explain to my friends how I need to give up on a dream of mine to go away so I can stay near my mother who is in her last days with cancer and I'm lambasted as a quitter for giving up on my dreams!
Hello!! Jeez >:(
So, it's OK to dream about Wyoming but to think logically about moving there, Jeff. I have multiple fantasies and dreams about moving abroad, etc. But like you, reality sets in pretty quick. I have limited job skills, at this time in my life my family needs me near, due to family genetics, health insurance is of extreme importance and despite what others say, I've seen what happens when you don't have these things and that trumps dreams pretty quick.
go for your dreams Jeff! If your dream is to live out in the Rocky Mountain west, then take a leap of faith and paths can open for you. But the first step is the convincing leap of faith because only then you are able to see possibilities that you could not see before.
Friend, take another look at that section of the essay that starts with, "So what's the problem?"
Unless you got you an extra cowboy layin' around somewhere that you aren't doin' anything with who wants a partner. ... ;) ;D
sure I read that, and that is the start, looking for that cowboy!
"Start looking"? Jesus H., man, what do you think I've been doing for the past eight years or so? :-\
um...knitting? scuba diving? Rock climbing? flying experimental airplanes? Searching for a cure for cancer?
;) ;)
"Start looking"? Jesus H., man, what do you think I've been doing for the past eight years or so? :-\
best of luck to you! you know, we do have a surplus of cowboys here in "Cowntown" aka Ft Worth. There's a rodeo somewhere in the area about every two weeks all year long. ;) search around these parts and maybe you can find a way to say great things about Texas! ;D
yep, TX has always had a lot of hot air blowing around and around. might as well put a windmill out on the lawn to spin some electricity out of it.
Right now the poll is 6 yes and 6 no. Who can tip it? :)