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Another city boy moves to the country. Landowners with no respect for the neighbors. People who live on the land realize they may pay taxes, but they don't really own it. They are just caretakers for a while and then it passes on to someone else. Anybody can hunt, fish, gather walnuts, mushrooms, or just hike on my land if they like. Whether I like is kind of moot, most of the time I don't know they've been there except when one calls to report trouble. Less fortunate people who don't have a big place are still people. There comes a day, either during a fire, flood, have cattle out, etc. when you recognize having friends for neighbors is a good thing. Like the call the other day when she says "I put two cows and a calf back in, I hope they were yours. I didn't have nothing to fix the fence." We get the folks buying 10 acre "ranches", put up their fences, no trespassing signs, etc., and they sell out before long because "everyone is so unfriendly". You'll find the "locals" won't leave the gate open, shoot a cow for fun, or set the place on fire, unless maybe you try to show them how much better you are because you have and they don't. You best not shoot a hunting dog around here, unless it is running livestock. The city folks fight over a fence being in the wrong place by a few feet. I never understand that. You know where the fence is, and you know on your side is your's. What difference does it make that some surveyor says it should be fifteen feet over there? That's on his side and you know it is his. You're not going to pasture another cow on 1/4 acre whether it "should" be yours or not, but you sure can lose a friend arguing over it. Just my thoughts.
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