Mountain Horse

Pictured is what I laughingly referred to as the "handyman special". I was extremely tempted to buy and relocate to this place some time ago. The house and land sold twice within several months while I contemplated the move. At the time, the house and land was sold for more than many of the livable houses in the region on similar sized acreages. Despite the old abandoned house, which is neatly tucked away at the base of an old horse trail, hundreds of people, including me, inquired when the property was listed "For Sale".

The old house was thought to be approximately 120 years old. It never had indoor plumbing, electricity came as an afterthought, and the house needed extensive renovation. If not a bulldozer! It was sold strictly as "…Land and house, as is, where is."

In the West, wild horses inhabit arid grasslands and shrub-lands, and are also found in pioon-juniper woodlands with an abundance of grasses. Grasses, such as Indian Rice-grass and Western Wheat-grass, which is the forage of choice in those areas for wild horses. During the winter, these horses depend on a variety of shrubs and in times of heavy snowfall will even eat the sprigs and bark of trees. There were definite signs that the horses had made themselves comfortable here…

The attraction to this place, was the presence of the horses…