folks, not sure if anyone is looking for a place to move or retire...BUT...an fyi...i just drove up and back from mtn. home arkansas where i live up to muscatine iowa and went pheasant hunting. now, ....i saw some ddddaaannndy ponds from 1-10 acres...a few in the 40 acre range or so along hwy 19 in southern/mid missouri ..i think around the Herman area...so my point is. if someone is looking for a place to retire and buy some property that may hold a good pond...you might want to check out that area. i think prices of acreage are reasonable...and the soil types looked good for holding ponds... just an fyi if anyone is interested.

if anyone flies planes, anyone out there interested in looking into a biiiig trac of land and possibly making a massive lake. be nice to have a 500-1500 acre place with a little landing strip/runway, a 50-100 acre lake...deer woods, turkey land... cabin on it. just curious. that's just my dream someday, i'm sure somebody out there may have a similar dream. i know there are a lot of lakes in texas, but if someone in illinois or around the mid missouri area would be interested, let's talk. i could fly or drive to mid missouri at a more reasonable time than i could to the famous "tank central". i couldn't afford it now, but it's always a good idea to start looking early.

also, different topic...maybe we should create a "trade hunt/fish/whatever section!", but i was wondering if anyone up north in the pheasant/big corn fed deer area would be interested in trading a hunt for fishing or waterskiing trip etc. there are people from all over on this web site...and i love to meet people with similar interests...so if anyone is ever near mtn. home arkansas, i'd love to show them around, or take them on a great small mouth fishing trip on famous crooked creek or trout fishing on the White River or water skiing. anyone else out there on "exchange trips" or stuff like that? if there is much of an interest, we may need a topic such as "exchange trips" so that if someone from illinois happens to be going to mesquite texas...they can post a message like "anyone in or near mesquite texas want to go/take me fishing" etc. and someone in texas may write "i want to go pheasant hunting...anyone out there want to take me?" just a thought....any other folks have any comments.... For me, i live 5-10 miles from beatiful Bull Shoals and Norfork lake, and would enjoy taking folks with their kids or whatever fishing or out to the lake skiing. mark