Almost exactly perfect.

Good morning friends.

One of my clients has a ranch in Bosque County.  He's a big dog in Dallas (I'm not mentioning names).  The place is just under under 6,000 acres. 

He's a unique guy.  He's spent considerable resources managing the land and wildlife with great care and attention -- even receiving a Lone Star Land Stewards award for restoring the native prairie grasses.  When I last met him there I found him at the house where he had just finished working cattle.  Not watching some hand do it -- working cattle himself.  Not exactly what you expect on the typical Texas "vanity" ranch.

The main lodge (historic) is really spectacular and can accomodate 5 families in individual "casitas" all attached to the house.  Swimming pool, barbeque pits.  You get the picture.  The ranch also has two Bosque County historical sites on it -- one a New England-style barn which was built in 1896 and which he fully restored from the stacked-rock foundation up.  The view from the cupola (complete with outside viewing platform on all four sides) is stunning.  Miles and miles of Texas.

It's a really incredible place.  He entertains guests and business associates from all over the world there.  He thinks its perfect. 

I guess Lone Star Transmission (Florida Power and Light but with the power to condemn private property in Texas) thought it needed something . . .

. . . so they shoved a 345,000 volt electric transmission line right through the middle of it.

You're fired!

It's not just a television catch phrase any longer.

Previously, I posted about the fact that certain electric transmission companies were averse to paying landowners damages when they place giant infrastructure on their land (against the landowner's will).

Recently, Oncor Electric Delivery hired an appraiser to recommend to them what compensation should be paid to landowners in Lampasas County.  The appraiser made the mistake of telling Oncor that powerlines diminish property values.

They fired him.