| About eight years ago I came home and found a thief
stealing my 8 year old lawn mower. When the guy saw me he started
running with my mower and tried to sell it with me in pursuit at a
strip mall in the area where I live. When I caught up with the ?!~?!!+\
I almost killed him. The mower wasn't the reason it was the fact that he
saw me knew the unit was mine and decided run and try to sell it in
spite of the fact that I was after him. At that point I decided it was
time to leave and find a place more secluded and away from the big city.
I went to my uncle and offered to purchase a 10 acre field that he
had sold some years earlier and wound up getting it back because of
a financial problem of the original buyer. My cousin decided that I
was a threat to the entire property that had been in the family since
1865. This was over a 1000 acres back then. It has however over the
years been reduced to a mere couple hundred acres.
I found 8.33 acres in the next county and am satisfied with it. I
have since paid for the land and am paying for a utility trailer and a
barn that was installed about 4 years ago.
Since that time the idea of a tree farm has been my retirement goal.
I like Japanese maple units. They really are beautiful trees. I started
to purchase red maple trees and plan to have them planted as the
root stock within the next few months.
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