Show us your digs and/or dogs?

[Swamp Yankee]

Here's our house

I took this shot from about 15' of our property line which was behind me - our property ends about 50' behind the barn on the right, about 50' to the left of the line of trees on the right, and it includes the pond you see in the foreground. The pond is fed from a spring that rises up about 40 feet beyond the barn. A dug well there serves as our water supply.



Closer up...



Here it is from about 40' in from the northeast corner of the lot...it's all woods behind me.



From halfway up the driveway..



This is the view from our living room, facing south back across the lawn. The town road is about 40' in from the line of trees you can see.

[JCave]

Very nice. BGE sitting on my deck too.

[Swamp Yankee]

Originally Posted by JCave

Very nice. BGE sitting on my deck too.

everybody needs at least one BGE

[Looburst]

Beautiful shots of your property, Swamp Yankee! Ya'll is livin the dream!

[Kerbie]

Wow, that's pretty, Swamp... makes me want to grab my down coat!

[cotten]

While I am too warm blooded to enjoy the cold (anything below about 70 F.), I have to confess this looks to me like a true winter wonderland. No wonder you enjoy it so much, Swamp. Of course, now you've got me to wondering if you are not really from some other state - that place called Mini-Soda maybe?

cotten

[KevWind]

Very nice, the modern version of Ye Ol' Cabin in the Woods, looks comfy.

[joe white]

" I went to the woods to live, deliberately "

I too, live deliberately in the woods Swamp and while it is a lot of work sometimes, it's well worth it. I maintain 1000 feet of gravel driveway and I'll admit, sometimes it gets the best of me. Your slice of peaceful paradise looks enchanting.

[guitar george]

Very nice Swamp. I hope you're not too far out of town. Is the pond, the swamp, where you get your name?

[frazervalley]

That is a beautiful spot, enjoy!

[Swamp Yankee]

Originally Posted by cotten

While I am too warm blooded to enjoy the cold (anything below about 70 F.), I have to confess this looks to me like a true winter wonderland. No wonder you enjoy it so much, Swamp. Of course, now you've got me to wondering if you are not really from some other state - that place called Mini-Soda maybe?

cotten

Nope - born and raised right here in Connecticut from a long line of folks that were born and raised right here in Connecticut...like back to the 1730s on my Mom's side, and before that they were in the Massachusetts Bay Colony ..right back to the Mayflower.
On my Dad's side my first ancestor in the New World bought a piece of property in 1639 that was no further than 20 miles away from where I was born. When he bought it, the land was in Connecticut, but the thieving New Yorkers got in 1683

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Yankee.

Originally Posted by joe white

" I went to the woods to live, deliberately "

I too, live deliberately in the woods Swamp and while it is a lot of work sometimes, it's well worth it. I maintain 1000 feet of gravel driveway and I'll admit, sometimes it gets the best of me. Your slice of peaceful paradise looks enchanting.

Pics or it didn't happen

Originally Posted by guitar george

Very nice Swamp. I hope you're not too far out of town. Is the pond, the swamp, where you get your name?

Nah... "Swamp Yankee" is just a slang term (often perjorative) for folks that live in the rural parts of Eastern Connecticut and Western Rhode Island.

My grandfather told me, when I was a child, that we came from a long line of Swamp Yankees that moved out of the Puritan colony in Mass. and into the "swamps" as Connecticut and Rhode Island were referred by those same Massachusetts Puritans way back when.

[KevWind]

Seems some here on AGF have opted for the more rural lifestyle
something my wife an I decided to do in 1980 When we move from S.E. Portland Ore to Jackson Wyoming .

At first we lived in a mobile home on the main highway on the end of town, but within 3 years we had bought our first property at the edge of the National Forest and then made several moves progressively further out of town .


Since you asked Joe for pics thought I'd save you trouble
Currently we have this place in Wyoming , and another in the Front range of Colorado

Entrance Bridger Teton National Forest boundary and W. property line about 50 yds to the left ..... Nature Conservancy at E. property line about 400 yards out of view on right



From almost to the National Forest boundary about 10 yards behind the photo position

[lowrider]

Swamp, your's is kind of like mine;



Open ceiling in living room, one br with bath upstairs right?

I'm in the Catskill forest, just west of Woodstock.

Here's a view from the front about a month ago;

[VTexan]

...in South Texas.

[VTexan]

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