Brad, thank you for the great advice! I'm so glad they sound so competent and awesome, I'm definitely going to try to work with them.
As for moving to Town . . . hel1 no, basically. We lived in town for 9 months, and it nearly killed me, and besides we couldn't afford to live there financially . . . we have 2.5 acres, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a 2-car garage, a tack room, 2 porches, and a hay shed, for $79,000. Can YOU find that in a city? And honestly, we're a lot closer to "town" than I ever was growing up . . . I grew up 30 miles from the grocery store, and now we live 15 minutes from a 24-hr Walmart, Walgreens, McDonald's and 2 clinics, so it's not like we're 100 miles from nowhere. We also have neighbors we get along with, who are really cool and help us out (they're also gunning for the wild dogs . . . lol). It's not like we're gonna die and our bodies will lie here rotting until the spring thaw or anything. =P
and we have STARS at night . . . and crickets (seasonally lol) and antelope come through our yard (haven't attacked my garden so far, so they're ok) and honestly I couldn't survive without those things. Wild dogs and snow are things I can deal with (I owned a gun before I knew what 9-1-1 was, my dad was a hunting outfitter and I guided hunters in high school) but I just couldn't survive Town. I have a suture kit and lots of veterinary supplies . . . lol
*hugs*
