[Just mythoughts]

I said marshfield......but mansfield is correct. Not much of a town. About an hour east of Springfield. I would love to live in that area somewhere. Beautiful and has everything i would want. but my folks have a farm in north mo. i have been trying to figure out how i could buy the place and pay for it. I see no way given the state of the economy, but i am still scheming because i want that 280 acres.

I too would love to live in that area. For now am south of KC on a 3 acre plot.

I grew up on the Osage Fork and dearly miss that 'lifestyle'.

North? It is very pretty north of KC on up to the Iowa border... but all the streams are mud bottom and I prefer the rock/sand bottom streams south of the MO River.

[o_zarkman44]

My ties to the north are because of the family farm in that region. And i do prefer the rock bottom creeks over the mud bottoms. But if i could figure out some way to pay for that farm, i would jump on it in a heartbeat.