4 months old...

Alpine run.  Got the truck inspected so I'm good for another year (tires are good, lights and windshield wipers worked, and the horn honks).  Popped into the tax office to pay my property taxes.  They have gone up now that I have some new land.  Just over $300 for 105 acres.  Did some new math since I posted about my first tax bill out here.  Now I pay property tax here per year what is cost me every 9 days to live in upstate NY.  Last year I gave all the girls in the tax office a Benita post card.  One of the postcards is posted on the tax maps there.  Had a great catfish lunch at Penny's Diner with the Cain family.

Ben is 4 months old today (and about 250lbs).  Bought him more Tposts, 50lbs of calf manna, his last 25lb bag of nurse chow, and his very own brush.  He LOVES the brush....not too happy about that last bag of milk replacer.  He is eating a lot of hay and manna now so tomorrow his milk ration gets cut in half.  72,83,48,0,B,0

Taxes?...Texas!

Made cables to hook up my new inverter and installed the switches for Turbines 3 & 4. Half day today cause I had to shower and head to the Terlingua Ranch Lodge to witness part of the local home owners association quarterly board meeting. The HOA out here is kind of a mess...we'll just leave it at that.
However, on the way in I picked up my mail and got my annual property tax bill for my 40 acres of paradise. I think I can scrape up enough change to cover this. By the way, Texas has no state tax to deal with by April 15th each year. It's absurd when I compare this to what I payed in NY for property tax. This years tax out here is $146.41. That's how much I paid last year every 4.5 DAYS! for the privilege of living in my home in upstate NY. Was the quality of life 98.77% better back east? Nope...we'll just leave it at that.