Friday, September 23, 2011

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.

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