About a year ago, the farmer across the street died and his sister sold the fields and acreage to the veterinarian down the street. In addition to his clinic, he has a large horse farm and has picked up hundreds and hundreds of acres. He now owns land on three sides of my 15 acres. I have a stream that is the border on the back side but I own about 15 feet of land on the other side of the stream. We've had some bad winter ice storms and a lot of trees were split, splintered and damaged this year. Add to the fact that the farmers haven't taken care of the land ever since the dairy bailout, the land has become somewhat overgrown with shrubs and small trees. So Gerry has worked on clearing and cutting these past two years and now he's working behind the stream. At the moment he has a bulldozer and excavator working back there and I keep saying to my brother......we better get a survey done because I think Gerry thinks the stream is the property line. Now I know Jerry's intention is to fence the land for horses and that is quite picturesque since he has barns of horses and does a lot of breeding of horses. He has the heavy equipment going and all I can think of is I better find out where the property line is staked out. I'd hate to see the fences go up and have him find out he's just done acres of fencing and it's not on his property! Which means......I now have to survey my land. Another thousand or two blown to the wind.   I thought country life was easy.

 

I am thoroughly finished with winter. This morning we had the threat of sleet and wet precipitation but fortunately it was short lived and the temperatures are rising. It is still cool and marginal but hopefully we'll see some change in the next two weeks. I can hardly wait. I'm waiting to see how my roses and irises fared, how well my back patio held up and of course with loosing the 60 foot maple what the added sunlight does to the northeast side of the house and garage. Over the years I've had to contend with so much shade that the absence of the tree which was a huge umbrella ----will now change the growing conditions. It will be interesting to see what I will put in.

 

Anyway, I'm still listening to a cacophony of chain saws and machinery in the back pasture.....so we'll see.   

Bittersweet