Fences seem to require a lot of tending. Cherry and pecan trees need lots of pruning, fertilizing and pest control. Of course if we don't spend a couple of days trying to kill poison ivy it would overrun the place. But it all sure beats working. It sure does help considering we have 50 acres of grass to mow.
Boxers have to be some of the finest companions on earth.
In the second picture I am standing in front of what was my great-grandparent's driveway. When they married my great-grandmother's father give her 40 acres. She and my great-grandfather lived on this land for over 50 years of married life. I spent many holidays and summers visiting them. A few years after my great-grandmother died, in 1964, the house burned down and eventually anything recognizable disappeared.