I want to live on the side of a quiet mountain

[Urbanbeetler]

...with a fresh stream for water, some fat red chickens and a huge supply of logs for the solid fuel stove.

Please add details to make it a beautiful day dream.

Would you like a nice little market town about ten miles away, with a library, charming independent shops, a couple of great cafés and an annual arts festival? Be my guest.

You’re all so kind! I’ll take it all.
Back in the tube in just over an hour, but it’s been fun dreaming.

I live on the side of a quiet mountain. It’s too bastarding cold for chickens for 7 months of the year, and we have coyotes and cougars that would eat them. The elk, deer and bears would have the vegetable garden too.
We do have the small town ten minutes away with arts festival and cafes though and flushing toilets.
I don’t really want a stream. The idea is lovely but in 2013 we lost a whole bunch of houses when the lovely creeks turned into raging torrents and took out half of town and the only highway in and out.
It’s still lovely though.
I give you a snow blower.

I also live on the side of a mountain. It’s beautiful but it’s hardwork! Recently spent a day dragging a actual tonne of firewood from the road where it was delivered, 50 meters uphill through our garden to the house. And deer ate my herb garden. And I miss having a real toilet. Do have a sauna though so, swings and roundabouts!

Mamaryllis - Are you a name change?

OP, I want about to brag about having exact the lifestyle described, but also to warn you that if you ever get to live your dream and want a quiet, peaceful, mountainside retreat, DO NOT get a peacock!!

Tranquility doesn't stand a chance against their tortured screeching at 3 or 4am.

Ours would often randomly start calling at the top of his lungs, in the middle of the night, sliding his claws around on the tin roof of our cabin like nails down a chalkboard, right above our bedroom.

DH spent many a night having to venture outside in the pitch dark (braving the numerous predators described by Mamaryllis!) to target "Popeye" (we didn't name him ) with a super-soaker water pistol to get him to SOD OFF away from our bedroom window.

Other than that it is idyllic. Just don't listen to Vitalogy about the peacock...

want about to brag about

Make sure you are on the south side of the mountain. Otherwise you'll never see the sun.

I have lots of namechanges

Urbanbeetler Don't just settle for any ordinary Bird feeders when you can have hummingbird feeders...

Mamaryllis, I think we might have spoken before. Your home sounds like it’s in Alberta, Canada and starts with a C.

We have a townhouse in 3S.

Your peakcock sounds like a real charmer mountainpeakgeek maybe he’s lonely and you need to get him a few rooster friends, really doubledown on morning cacophony...

Moose I think we're probably all in the same, not particularly active, Facebook MN group?

Hello Mountain. I think you might be right.

Outfoxed "Your peakcock sounds like a real charmer mountainpeakgeek maybe he’s lonely and you need to get him a few rooster friends, really doubledown on morning cacophony..."

He wasn't lonely at all...he had Olive, his mate, and an load of other random fowl (See the attached pic.)

Unfortunately he is no longer with us (natural causes, I assure you - nothing to do with our frustration!!) and I can vouch that roosters have nothing on peacocks... Roosters at least have a vague concept of night and day, even if their version of day starts a bit earlier than I would like. A crack of dawn rooster chorus is better than a 3am peacock serenade!

*a load

Please excuse all the typos. It's 10:30pm here and I've had a looong day and several beers

Wow, are those dumpy grey birds lady peacocks? Yes I know the term is pea hen btw.

Isn't it weird that with birds, it's the males that are bright and colourful, but with humans it is the women that are expected to put on a display?

OP, I think your mountain needs to be somewhere a little more hospitable than somewhere too cold for chickens, or has wildlife that could eat you.

I'd go for somewhere nice and warm, or sacrifice the mountain for gently rolling hills. You can still get the wilderness and isolation you crave. Where we live you only have to drive for about 20 minutes to get from suburbia to total rural isolation where we go for walks and say 'we'll have that one' when we come across a lovely isolated cottage or barn conversion.

In this utopia, the sky would always be clear so you can see millions of stars every night.

If you like you can join me on my fantasy mountainside. It's in Greece.

Definitely warm enough for chickens and no predators big enough to eat you. There will be peach trees, fig trees and an olive grove. Maybe you could make feta cheese and sell it to me (because I don't know how )

I give you a beautiful wildflower meadow for a PP's hammock. The warm gentle breeze ripples over the long grass twinkling in the sunlight

Your lifestyle has made you so fit that sometimes if you wake early you run to the top of the mountain with your dog and you watch the sun come up together and feel like you’re the only person in the world.

What a lovely thread!

And in addition to the multitude of stars you get a nightly beautiful display of the Aurora.

Mountain, it’s been vair quiet on fb of late

I'd like to add some really good binoculars for twitching and star viewing.

I think the most comfortable bed you could imagine with some really high thread count sheets would be fab.

Did anyone mention that the stream that runs past the house has a large rocky pool in which you can dip when it's warm enough. With a view, natch.

Look at this beautiful peacock

Beautiful roses and freesias for the garden and a lovely herb garden