Brent- Your place sounds wonderful! I can just imagine the natural beauty of where you live.
We live in a similar situation. I live in rural Alaska, about 40 miles north of the entrance to Denali National park. You can see other mountains from our house, but you can actually see Mt. Mckinley on a clear day from the end of our driveway. (the lay of the land blocks it from view at our house) It's peaceful and quiet and I don't think I could see myself living anywhere else. The moose come to forage outside our living room picture window and lynx, coyote, ptarmagin, porcupine, snowshoe hare, and bear have been seen around.
My girls go to school at a small small school at a nearby town. The elementary consists of two classes, one with K-3 and the other has 4-6. I work as both the school librarian and community librarian. (same library) Everyone knows each others name and no one goes without. There was a family building a house here this summer and half the town pitched in to help them get their walls and roof up. In fact, you might have seen us in the news not too long back as the Alaskan town who gave away land.
http://web.mac.com/dbsd/iWeb/Site/City%20of%20Anderson.html
The downside is that I live 80 miles from the nearest grocery store. We'll soon be investing in a more fuel efficient car!