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Healing this Earth, or at Least this Five Acres of It

4/11/2018

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This place we bought is trashed. Literally. At best it's a junk yard, and at worst it's a dump. There's actually a hole where they dumped trash. For years. Which we found out from locals is not that unusual. It goes along with the home-dug well and the home-dug sceptic system. And the jumper cables to the electric lines. Yup. Anyway, there has probably been no trash pickup at this property, in ages. 
We spent the first two weekends out there sifting through it, picking out a few great things to keep (old milk crate from the dairy days! a few useable chairs and tables! sets of china!) Then we had metal pickers who thought they had gone to heaven, and spent four days loading up truckload after truckload. Finally a bulldozer and crew has arrived to clear it all away. 
Did we mention this place was cheap? That's why, and now we're paying to clean it up.
But this land deserves it. It's wild and beautiful. I mean, it will be beautiful.
​And now we can finally see the barn!
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Daphne Vega
4/14/2018 12:47:33 pm

I hope you are keeping the sex swing!

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Anna
4/14/2018 06:49:11 pm

Well, how nice of you to notice! Unfortunately, it had to come down because the barn is now got scaffolding up in it. Maybe we'll put it back later.

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Ted Meyer
4/16/2018 12:30:39 am

Judging from the text on it I believe it is for holding oats and feeding horses. That said, anything can be a sex toy if used properly.

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Laird Ehlert
4/19/2018 09:58:58 pm

I can't believe that there was enough food and water for a dairy farm! Those poop gutters look rather shallow.

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