The BEE Ranch has the best of both worlds. It is located just beyond the city limits of Johnson City at the end of where Avenue N was plated many years ago. My family likes the convenience of a town nearby, and it is nice to have a short drive to the store, but we are out in the country where the coyotes howl at night and the stars provide the light. We are off the beaten path, but not too far. Good BBQ is close by, and friends don’t have to drive for a day to find us. It does a soul good to find a peaceful place to rest. Even if you are engaged in what others might call work, the Zen aspect of the activity will energize you. I’m going to grow a garden, it will involve work, but the benefits will out way any physical effort required to make it happen. The BEE Ranch is the kind of place that will help one to live to a hundred, or at least 95. We invite friends to go there to let their creativity flow, like taking photographs, or making something from nothing, or to just be and relax. Slowly but surely the inside of the barn is going to be finished out, and eventually it will be heated and cooled, but one of the mandates is that the building be as “green” and eco friendly as it can be. I’m thinking R-30 walls, and R-49 in the ceilings, using mini splits for A/C, so no duct work, and a wood stove to heat the whole barn. Eventually there will be solar power and rainwater collection too. We’ll get there, but vision takes time. 40 years ago somebody might have said, “man… that dude is out there”, today the same guy is main stream, maybe even leading edge. If you ask me it’s being in the Hill Country that makes the vision happen. And that is why I want to have my cake and eat it too.
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