Uplander said:
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Funny, I tell this to people and they're like, "Boy, you got a lot of work to do! Is it worth that? I mean you just don't go there to relax but you're working on it all the time." My answer to that is a big fat YES! I'll tell you, nothing like the feeling of working your own land to get it to be the dream place of yours. I the happiest when I'm brush hogging and cutting out trails and assisting the deer paths to an adjacent farming field for feed.
AMEN!

When we came over the hill onto our 43 acres 19 years ago, there was nothing except weeds, groundhogs, and rusty barb wire. We have put a great deal of work into our house, three barns, the pond, and a lot of other things, and I think have gotten more enjoyment and fulfillment out of it than the value of the improvements.

Sunil, if you don't quickly put in, at minimum, a small cabin capable of keeping either your or Sid's family (or better yet both simultaneously) comfortable while you enjoy your place, I will personally show up, catch all your smallmouths, and magic-marker moustaches on them. ;\)

"Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever."
-S. M. Stirling
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