Rev. Erudite Redneck, B.S., B.S., M.A., M.Div.

Simple frame construction & fairly large lot, seems that additional rooms would be easy to do. Also stand alone buildings could be added for offices and such. Plenty of room for corn and beets. Maybe a chicken coop in the corner.
In 1926 they used real wood, but the electricity and pipes may need some work.
But as you know it is all about location location location.
Now my ideal home would be next to the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden which is also about three blocks away from the Coors Brewery and their free tours and tasteing rooms. Talk about Locations.
 

My cousin's home in the Denver area is worth nearly $200,000 -- an older, 1,000-square-foot home.

Ouch.

My brother has a bigger place, probably not nearly as big as ER's pad in OKC, but still, when he purchased the home a couple of years ago, it was right around $400K.

I don't like Denver that dang much. :-)
 

Welcome to the "New" West where housing determines who is worthy of living in the coveted Frontier.
 

Hi ER -

That's more than 150K would get you here in Naples, FL. But we live in a completely bloated, stupid real estate market.

That does look like the proverbial "house where nobody lives." So did ours, kinda, when we moved in four years ago. Now it has come along.

Still that one seems a bit small.

I second drlobojo's suggestion for chickens, no matter where you live. They're the "pet" that gives back, dontchaknow. And Brad and Angelina raise them, too, so you know it must be cool! (Bleeeaaahhhhhhh....)

(I'm a long-time off-on lurker, having been lured in by your "going home posts" - thank you for reposting them so serendipitously. I wanted to re-read them but was having a hard time finding them in your archives!)
 

Welcome Native Montanan, and thanks for lowering your shields, thingfish. :-)

There are better deals than the one I linked to -- and, metro Denver did get tangled up in a housing bubble city, unlike Oklahoma City; it's a buyer's market there, and it's gonna BE a buyer's markret for the rest of the year, which is good for us, especially if mortgage rates stay low, which they will.

So, much more expensive than we're used to -- but we're not gonna live in Boulder, which has a median price right now of around $560,000 (compared to just more than $140,000 for the Oklahoma City metro area); Denver metro, as a whole, has a median price of $235,000, and its going down.
 

Hey, Teditor, and Drlobojo!

Looks like the best and most direct way from OKC to Denver is up I-35 to Salina, Ka., then I-70 west to Denver. About 10 hours.

Anything to see on the Salina-to-Denver leg?? I expect to make that trip a few times drivin'.
 

That route is the fastest but it is damn-damn boring. Hayes Kansas has a fort remnant and wild bill hickock stuff. There's a dinasor (sp) museum there too.

I go out I-40, around Amarillo (dozen different ways to do that) and up US 287 to Lamar, Co. and then US 50 and/or hwy 194(often stay overnight at the BestWestern in Las Animas. Their Huevos Rancheros are their own special creation)to Rocky Ford, pick up some mellons and other goodies at the fruit stand at Hwy 50 and Hwy 71 and then take Hw 71 North to Limon and West into Denver on I-70. The locals around there alway take hwy 71 to Denver. Stay off I-25. It kills.
That route or a slight variation can take you by Bents Fort, the Sand Creek massacre site, the Adobe Wall battle site (Texas panhandle), One of Kit Carson's old homes with a museum, and it crosses the Santa Fe Trail (Oklahoma).
I often take Colorado Hwy 101 just over the Oklahoma border and North of Pritcher Co., up to Las Animas. It is gravel, but is good for 75 mph and goes through Toonerville. Now, how can you pass up Toonerville? (You will have to look for Toonerville, it is on the road but you can miss it) Can't really get lost out there. If you do, just go North and you cut trail sooner or latter.
Naw, to Salinas to I- 70, a woos route.
 

By the way when house shopping check out the older parts of Arvada, Colorado. My inlaws live there and it is kind-off-in the NW part of the metro towards the mountains and towards Boulder. I've help them throw a paper route there a couple of time and there are all sorts of homes tucked away in places there. But it has bus/rail links to downtown.
 

Dr. Lobo is smokin' stuff. The BEST route is the fastest route, which is via Salina. It's also got the best views ... of wheat. Lots and lots of wheat. Then when you get toward Colby, it's got corn.

Actually, it's God's country.

Through western Kansas, you can stop off in Russell and see the oil stuff, but you've been to western Oklahoma, so you know that.

Victoria has the Cathedral of the Plains, an old Catholic church/monastery, and I'd recommend taking a few hours to visit it. You can see it from 20 miles away. Talk to dem der Ghermins dats round der, and dey'd talya lotssa tings.

Then stop in and spend the night or two in Hays. One thing about Ellis County, Kan., is those Germans believe in their Catholic faith. Every town -- whether its the size of a cocounut or the size of Hays -- has a Catholic church, and they all have different, marvelous stories to tell. I'm not Catholic, but the churches are a marvel to me. I live in a predominantly Catholic community in northwest Missouri -- there's an old convent that is now a prison, another convent and an abbey (three old monasteries) in this county.

Also at Hays, you can see the Sternberg Museum. If you're into world history, you'll love it.

I might also take you off the beaten path, and instead of venturing up to Salina, head west on State Highway 96 to Hutchinson. Maybe you can tour the salt mines -- a humongous storage facility now, and movie companies store all their things there because of the climate in the caverns -- and take a trip through the Cosmosphere. Then take 96 to Rush Center, north to Hays.

Of course, there's Old Fort Hays, which as Dr. Lobo suggested, is where Wild Bill Hickok was stationed. If you stayed awake through "Dances with Wolves," it's where Kevin Costner was originally stationed before being sent up north.

Fort Hays State University (my alma mater) is a beautiful little campus with wonderful limestone buildings.

As you head further west, stop by and see WaKeeney, named after Mr. Warren and Mr. Keeney. Don't ask me why. Along the highway that heads north, you'll find Trego Community High School, also my alma mater.

Call it a boring drive or whatever, Dr. Lobo, but every little town's got a story to tell. Collyer, a town of about 500 in its heyday, has hosted serious rock bands at the monthly Collyer Dances. As you get toward Oakley, you'll note the change in landscape, mainly because of what's under the ground there. Whereas communities like Hays and Ellis have problems with water, it's much more abundant in northwest Kansas, which is why you'll see more circle irrigation.

Take notice of the wonders of the Plains, because God put them there. My in-laws, who are farmers, are jealous of my family, because of the way farming is done there in comparison to the rolling hills of northwest Missouri.

Everything can have its own touch of beauty. It's whether you wish to open your eyes to it that matters.
 

Who wants to tell Teditor that the Germans are Lutheran?
 

??? Dr. ER comes from German Catholics in Texas. Teditor knows western kansas. I'll bet he's right.
 

Volga Germans, along the Russian border, is where the folks around Hays are from. Same here in Nodaway County, Mo.

Catholic as all get-out. Schmidts. Schmidtbergers. Fruehs. Stiens. Riedels. Deineses. Fabriziuses. Graffs. Ridders.

German all. Catholic all. Sorry, Trixie. My sister married a Graff and converted to Catholocism. My wife was a Frueh, and I ain't converting. :-)
 

Germans in Western Kansas: recruited by the Union Pacific Railroad to settle along their right of way. Catholics all. UP took whole communities to the U.S. and kept them together when they resettled.

Ellis has a UP RR museum.

Re Whatcha Smoking: Teditor, nothing is that pretty from an Interstate Hyway, even God's country. Besides most of the year you're just looking at plowed ground out there.
 

WRONG, Doc. Wrong. There's plenty of beauty along an Interstate. It just depends on whether you want to see it or not.

They have offramps, ya know. :-)

I forgot about the railroad museum. I've never been there, but I know a lot of people who have.

Plowed ground? OK, that's a refreshing outlook. Uh, how about wheat that is planted in September and October and sprouts by November. No longer plowed ground, and it won't be harvested in that neck of the woods until late June. Nine months

Fall crops are either being ploanted or will be planted soon, and it won't take long before they come outta the dirt. Harvest is October. Six to seven months.

Yes, it's been plowed, but it's also growing. It's farmland, Doc. It's a way of life. And it, too, can be beautiful.

It's just whether you want to see it.