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05-30-2005, 07:04 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Leona
Posts: 6,382
M.O.C. #2059
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The End is the Beginning.
Wednesday is the end of Dianna's 28 year career at NASA. It is the beginning of all that we have planned in the Montana. Thursday we travel to the site where we will pour a pad, put in a septic tank, and put in hook-ups for our "home base". It is a 24 acre farm in Central Texas, about 10 miles off I45 half way between Houston and Dallas.
This place looks like a park. Our pad will be surrounded by Cedars and Oaks. Some of the old Oaks have 8 foot or more diameter trunks. There will be a small lake visible from our big Montana back window. There is shade, crickets, birds, squirrals, and deer. Deafening silence and stars at night are treasures only enjoyed apart from the metropolitian areas.
Monty's ready to go as soon as I complete my broadcast on Thursday Morning. As soon as the home base is established, we are off to Montana Nervana. Our next milestone is to get the house sold.
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05-31-2005, 01:16 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Napanee
Posts: 3,440
M.O.C. #1493
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That's when the 3670RL will show its colors. Enjoy.
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05-31-2005, 03:07 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Tipton
Posts: 3,646
M.O.C. #191
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Stiles,
Is this home base a regular campground, or a tidbit you have in your back pocket! It sounds VERY NICE!
Congrats on a plan well executed! May retirement be all you both have envisioned!
Carol
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05-31-2005, 04:01 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Leona
Posts: 6,382
M.O.C. #2059
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Carol,
It is not a campground. It is a farm or country place we have access to. All we need do is set it up and use it as we wish. It will be our official "domicile" while we become nomads.
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05-31-2005, 04:46 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Tipton
Posts: 3,646
M.O.C. #191
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Stiles
SWEET!!!! 
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05-31-2005, 05:04 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Racine
Posts: 809
M.O.C. #1165
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Stiles and Dianna - Congratulations! Just love it when a well thought out plan comes together! Enjoy your new life style and make many happy memories. Continued safe travels to you both!
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05-31-2005, 05:16 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: La Pine
Posts: 2,654
M.O.C. #2018
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Congratulations!! Sounds like a little piece of heaven to me. We should all be so lucky. Enjoy.
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05-31-2005, 08:55 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Malta
Posts: 3,075
M.O.C. #607
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sounds nice
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05-31-2005, 10:55 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Cooper
Posts: 1,230
M.O.C. #3029
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It is great that you have made it....don't know how they are gonna launch the shuttles without her at NASA anymore. BTW, sounds like the home base is somewhere between Buffalo and Fairfield, love that part of Texas.
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05-31-2005, 11:03 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Statham
Posts: 1,410
M.O.C. #3215
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Stiles, I do not know if you have ever seen the Kevin Costner movie, Field of Dreams, but in it Costner plays Ray Kinsella, who plows up his corn crop to build a baseball field, because “if you build it, he will come,” he being Ray’s father. At the end of the movie, Ray’s father asks him if that field is heaven, and later, Ray looks around him and replies that perhaps this is heaven, though he had responded Iowa earlier.
It sounds like the two of you are making your own version of heaven. “Deafening silence”… Well, I think that speaks volumes! 
Congratulations, and be sure to enjoy that spot some for the rest of us who still have to maintain the daily grind!
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05-31-2005, 05:42 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Oceanside
Posts: 20,028
M.O.C. #20
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Congratulations, Stiles and Diana! We are so excited for you. And now the adventure begins...
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05-31-2005, 06:30 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Wetumpka
Posts: 4,936
M.O.C. #1105
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Congratulations, Stiles. What a wonderful stage of life to begin. Don't forget to make room for your friends when they come to visit.....one or two more hookups for folks passing through.
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06-01-2005, 05:31 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Merritt Island
Posts: 331
M.O.C. #2088
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Stiles and Diana,
Congrats! We just got done adding a new well, power poles and septic to our place in preparation for using it as a home base in the (near) future (3 to 5 years). If you are ever in Old Town Florida or just passing through and need a place to stop over or stay a while let me know, you guys are more than welcome to stay at our place anytime. Once again congrats and now it's time to really start enjoying the good things life has to offer.
Jeff Heiser
Merritt Island Florida
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06-01-2005, 03:47 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Aberdeen
Posts: 712
M.O.C. #7
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[quote]Originally posted by stiles watson
old Oaks have 8 foot or more diameter trunks. There will be a small lake visible from our big Montana back window. There is shade, crickets, birds, squirrals, and deer. Deafening silence and stars at night are treasures only enjoyed apart from the metropolitian areas.
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Congrats on your retirements. The location you picked as your home base sounds great. Enjoy!
"Home is where the heart is."
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06-02-2005, 02:42 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: sioux falls
Posts: 1,835
M.O.C. #2121
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Congratulations!! Your home base sounds wonderful and we are so happy for you. Look out world - here they come!!
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06-03-2005, 12:15 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location:
Posts: 1,502
M.O.C. #3142
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Congratulations wow that is terrific! Happy Travels!
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06-03-2005, 01:40 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: New Braunfels
Posts: 664
M.O.C. #920
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Stiles,
Congratulations to you and yours! Sounds like a very good situation. Enjoy! 
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06-04-2005, 08:56 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Quartzsite
Posts: 157
M.O.C. #2753
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Stiles n Dianna:
Congratulations on your new "home base"! Sounds like the ideal place from which to "launch" your new adventures. Happy Trails!
Bruce
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06-05-2005, 02:56 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Georgetown
Posts: 1,411
M.O.C. #956
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Congratulations... we will join you in Texas the end of August, only we will be in Bastrop on our own little heaven. We are setting up a permanent spot on the back of our son's 2 acres. We will be about 200 yards from the grandkids.
Myrna
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