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| Jim Gupta-Carlson "Mending Wall" 2013 |
I live in a neighborhood with more livestock than people, I have joked many times. But there are also more "Posted: No Trespassing" signs than people as well. A favorite pastime of one of our neighbors is property line walking and marking - with purple translucent tape. Our neighbor's interest in our property lines follows my energy in rebuilding our land. Last fall after mentioning using goats to eat our brush in the woods and logging for firewood to improve the sunlight on our garden, I followed him into the woods with purple tape - in search of missing pipe in the ground marking a point on his property line. Every 50 yards or so we stopped, to tie purple tape around a tree. He wanted to finish before it snowed. Perhaps property lines move under the snow? I met our neighbor first when we were moving in, he was going through the rubble of our just demolished old garage looking for firewood. I met our neighbor last when he let himself in to tell us that his gun rights were being taken away.
Why do they make good neighbors?
He is all pine and so are mine.
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