Tour of WindWalkerCamp
Phone 214/789-0359 year-rounde-mail:  pat@windwalkercamp.com
This is a composite ot two photos taken from in front of the main house (this will become the first Lodge) looking back to the road.  All the way up at the front will become a solid wall of yellow forsythia . . . you'll never miss the front gate.
As you drive down the gravel lane under the young oaks,
the heat of Texas summer stays on the road, and the air cools off -
- it feels like twenty degrees.
This is the main house.  It was built in the 1950's, I think.  It's not very exciting . . . yet.  Pale blue really isn't my first choice, but it is dry inside, and it's structurally solid.  The place has four really dinky bedrooms, an original bathroom, an "emergency" bathroom, a big ole pantry, a kitchen and a gameroom. 
One of the bedrooms will go away when the kitchen morphs into Kitchen-zilla with a humongous commercial gas stove.  The existing stove is electric!  No!  Really.  I've already contacted the propane company; we're going to take care of that prontissimo.

This view of the gameroom is looking from the kitchen toward the door to the (gonna-be) woodshop.
The woodshop started life as a two-car garage (Ia la PinewoodDerbyWorkshop), but I have major plans for that.  The shop even has a covered patio on its west side and open rafters above for wood storage.  Oh, it is truly fine.
You can see the skylights that keep the space bright, even on cloudy days, and the wood-burning fireplace right in the big middle of everything.
This is looking the other way back toward the pantry door and the arched entry into the room.  I told you I think this house was built in the '50s.  I'm planninf for the arch to go away as the kitchen starts dipping into the steroids.  And we'll probably put away the broom and trash can before anybody shows up.
This is camp.  The megilla tv goes the bleep away.  (Sorry; my Navy vocabulary bubbled up there for a minute.)  We don't do television.
The door goes out to the side lawn on the south side of the house . . . Lodge . . .; the full-acre garden patch in just the other side of that.
You can see the wood-burning stove here.
What you don't see is the wellhouse in the south yard that brings the freshest water in the world up or the connections to county water from the highway out front.  (Two water supplies.  That's a good thing.)
Phone 214/789-0359 year-rounde-mail:  pat@windwalkercamp.com
Now, these can be scary pictures if you just look at them and think, "No Way, Jose!", but the thing you have to keep in mind is that I didn't take my camera with me the first time I saw this place (early last April) right after the owner had moved back into town after fifty years out here.
The grass was mowed, the hedges were trimmed, you could SEE the place.  These shots were taken only two months later.  This land is lush!

The door you see is to the gameroom in the phots above.
This to the left is the barn; the hayloft above gives it the stepped roof line.  There is actually a path through the lawn grass when it is mowed.  It's a barn; the floor is dirt.  We're going to bring in several yards of sand and use it for shaded outdoor activities when it's summer.
This is from the back yard looking
toward the covered patio outside the wood-
shop.  Thebrick st ructure in the foreground
is the wellhead.  You can see how high the
grass is.
Well, it hasn't been cut in two months in
these photos, but it's like a carpet when it's
shorter.

I'm just going to tell you there's a pond
on the place.  The place has grown up so
much in two months I couldn't even get to it
to take photos.  But it's there.  It's not really
big enough for rowboats or canoes, but it is
big enough to swim in and to fish in and to
sail  RC boats in.
I originally set up WindWalkerCamp to be 45 acres in Missouri.  Oh, Heavens; it's beautiful, but it's seven hours away, and it's "primitive camping."  No toilets; no water.
I am working with a realtor on a 65 acre farm just this side of the Red River (2 1/2 hours away).  It has toilets; it has water and electricity; it has a kitchen; it has a pond; it has woods.  It's wonderful. Right now I'm building my down payment, and the seller isn't taking care of the place.  It looks bad, but all it really needs is mowing.  Don't tell anybody, but it's fabulous.  Trust me on this one.
This little farm is a perfect place to set up WindWalkerCamp.  I saw it the first time when it was only just being moved out of, and I almost exploded.  If this place had come on the market a couple of years ago, I would have just bought it and paid for it out of cash flow.  I could not do that this time, in the wake of the sub-prime mortgage market crash, so I am accumulating the down payment.
What it looks like right now is that I will have that sum in a lump right around Christmas -- PineWoodDerbyWorkshop will be in full swing, and then we're off to the races!
I wanted everybody to see what this place looks like from the camera's eye.

The next thing I am working on is a big four-foot by eight-foot table model of where we're going with this.  I figured I could set this up like an N-gauge model railroad.  Nope; that model is eight by sixteen.  That's just too big to do anything with.  When I get the model built, I'm going to invite everybody over to see it.  You'll love it.