We live on a 40 acre hilltop near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The part of the state that is known as the Pine Belt, with good reason. A pretty nice place, we think. I was a little disappointed to find out that I couldn't build a pond here, but the ground is too sandy and won't hold water without some kind of heroic effort. I like to keep the pond project open as an option, but realistically the pond probably isn't going to happen.
Otherwise things are pretty idyllic here.
We have wild turkeys that aren't too scared to come fairly close to the house, sometimes right outside the door. Kristen says she saw a bear on the road a few months ago, and Sherry says she has a cougar out behind her house. No, domestic chickens. We got our first chicks 4 years ago, and have gotten sort of attached to the little boogers. So now what we do is work in the garden raising vegetables, and we fool with chickens.