I had a terrible, and probably lucky flight on my stearman today....

I recently swapped motors, and I was trying a different prop today, and it went lean and died on me. I haven't been flying it alot, and I haven't dead sticked it in a couple years.. i remember it usually glides pretty long and fast if its real calm, but comes down steep with a breeze. Mine is a bit heavy with a gas motor but flies great.. Well i was on one of the outlaying flight positions , not center field ..and the engine died.. I wasn't real high up ..60 feet maybe , I didn't really take my eyes off the plane to scan exactly, and unfortunately I didn't have a spotter. My first thought was I am too high to land north into a 4 mph wind, and too low to turn out and down wind and do a new approach, I possibly could have turned 180 degrees and landed down wind and probably went in the bean field.. But that required turning at the flight line and possibly stalling mid turn near everyone. So I decide to go north. On the end of our field is a double set of levees to contain a small creek on its route to the river. So I had to lose altitude without to much speed to either land going north, or bend it west at the end and roll up near the fence. I did some draggy right and left banks using just a tiny bit of aileron and rudder... but I just couldn't lose enough altitude and maintain a low enough speed. Finally I was at the end of the field and I thought oh no, I am going to be hauling butt when I roll into that fence. That wasn't the problem I had... the plane was about 20 feet off the field over the levees, as I turned to level off, there I am settling into the worst place possible. It caught the right wings in the tall grass and weeds hauled it down, a nasty smack sound and you could hear it rolling down in the 8-10 feet deep creek bed (dry now thankfully) Anyhow I get over there and the motor mounts broke off, taking the cowl with it. I must have about 8 holes and tears in the monocote, but I don't think it BROKE A SINGLE STICK on the plane !

That was a lucky ending, but I am still just sick, I don't know if I made the worst emergency decision, but I sure wish I had made a better one! I don't know if I had the nerve to use a little opposite rudder and aileron to slip it more if I could have gotten it down..or if I would have just snapped it in...anyhow I am torn between feeling lucky and disgusted..