Expect to pay @ least $ 20k for a well (& yougonna need electricity .. tack on around $ 12,500⁰⁰ for poles, depending if you won't need too many n. Go underground for the last 150 ft. Less chance of branch or tree falls (especially in a Hella freeze like we have had 2× in the past 5 years) & more attractive. Pedernales Co-Op is your ONLY choice for electricity & they are NOTORIOUSLY shitty about any incentives or buybacks for wind or PhotoVoltaic. We build pumphouse sheds on the regular & I suggest a well insulated one, @least an 8×8 so all sides are accessible for maintenance & youmu can store some stuff inside, with plywood interior walls, a slant roof & skylight directly over the wellhead. Use the power to run a heater in there. *For a relatively accurate price on a well, call any company in the area & give them the address... they can get you a decent verbal estimate because with the # of wells registered with the state, they all share in the same geological data & will know your general area. ★★ Don't use Bee Cave Drilling, ★★ because the owner cut trees along our joint property line (with permission) for a 4 strand barb wire fence (Oaks to be trimmed as required in probably 20% of that line) but refused to spray ANY of the cuts to prevent Oak Wil AFTER i notified that his crew needed to complere this. So... F that guy. * * If you're W of Westcave Preserve & the Pedernales low water crossing floods, add around 35 minutes to your schedule for getting to Drip. From 12 & HPR, it's gonna be a similar distance H.E.B. if you go to either the Drip or Bee Cave store .. however IMO 12 is safer / less winding whereas HPR had some much needed widening completed in '24. If you have kids of a certain age (Tiger Cub" begins in Kindergarten), we have Pack & Troop 101@ Dripping Springs Methodist Church on RR 12 & we would be your closest Scouting America units... girls accepted for both & closer than any other units. The Seiders Brothers (YETI) Scouted through our units & one of them Eagled. Regardless of kids, if you have +50 acres, we would like to chat with you about camping opportunities for both units & can provide a Hold Harmless. We can bring our own water & porta-cans. * * Football won District & band came in with a " Superior" in some sorta important statewide competition. Top 10 out of 50, i think. Supposedly within 5 years or so we'll have a 2nd highschool... dilution of football AND band is a major local argument. Supposedly back before Lake Travis had their own ISD, ½ of their kids went to Drip schools & once they DID get a HS, our Tigers would bea/ the Cavaliers on the regular. Then a lot of DNA from former Longhorns & retired NFL started showi g up & the LT squads got good. What side of the ISD split / divide are you on? We have MAGA idiots on the school board (Olivia something or whatever) & 2 local residents were well known to LiveStreamon Facebook from inside the US Capitol on J6... then did a dirty delete soon after & said "nope, we didn't go inside." Plenty of moron red hatters here & Abbot⁶t tried to eliminate Erin Zwiener from her State House Representative seat. That shuffle put Carrie Isaac's back in (hyper corrupt... wasn't a full resident of Hayes & had a bogus "charity" for veterans that only helped something like ONE guy & the rest went to "administrative"). Erin was able to legislatively prevent Buda from slurping up all of Driftwood's water & Wimberly was equally concerned. *. * & That's the news from Rural Drip-Begone, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. # # #