Property Pictures, Summer 2008

Here are some pictures taken of The Property in the late summer last year.

The front of the land is a bit higher than the rest; some gentle slopes take you down. Some established trees that we'll likely keep line paths created by vehicles and/or cattle (not ours): Prickly pear cacti can be found just about everywhere. This one was in bloom. This tree grove lines the creek. As you make your way to it, you pass a pretty nice open and clear pasture. And finally - the creek! The water level was pretty low during the 2008 central Texas drought. But, knock on wood, we've never seen it totally dry. We have a ton of ideas about what to do with the area near the creek. It is amazingly peaceful and serene with some neat natural landscapes.

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"The Property"

One of the reasons for the creation of this blog is to share the progress on a nine acre tract of land we've purchased. It's in Elgin, Texas, and is located about 25 miles due east of Austin proper. Here's the tract survey (click for larger view):
The purple colored area is the entire tract. It's somewhere around 200 feet wide at the north end near the road. The rest shotguns to the southwest. A creek that runs through on the south end is colored in blue . It's probably around 20-25 feet across at it's widest point and a few feet deep.

"The Property" had almost all of the things we were looking for when searching for a nice land tract:

• Water feature
• Lots of trees (but not a forest) and other plant life
• Reasonable access to municipal utilities
• Isolation from city life but close enough to civilization
• Goldilocks size: not too small, but not too big

We were able to close on it in September of '08. So far, we haven't changed it at all. We're looking to pay down the land loan and hopefully begin building within 18-24 months.

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