I went to 11:00 church service on Sunday and met up with
Steve and Kimberly, we talked for a while after the service about the property. I spent the rest of the day doing errands,
shopping and I read all evening and went to bed early.
I joined the local gym today, it is pretty nice, I rowed 2k
in 8:37 - I tried a couple different
stationary bikes and a weird ECO treadmill, then a treadmill that had videos of
different trail runs.
I wanted to rent a battery operated chainsaw so I could test
one out before I purchased one, but I could not find one. I tried to purchase a bow saw for trimming branches
– I chose not to purchase one yesterday because I hadn't heard of the brand and
it seemed cheaply made – but the big box store I went to this morning on the
way to the property had just put their garden tools away so they could put out
Christmas toys. I picked up an axe
instead.
At the property, I grabbed the axe and headed down a trail
to the spot a big tree had fallen across my water cistern; I had planned to use
the chain saw to limb the trunk an see if I could cut it into small enough
pieces to move out of the way. I used
the axe to limb the tree so I could climb under it and then I started to explore
the hillside, looking for another stream I had been told about. The axe came in handy on this adventure. I didn’t find the stream, but I did find a
pink ribbon hanging on one of the tress and wondered if that could be part of a
“String line” denoting the boundary of my property. Using basic sighting technique, of finding a
tree or other feature, that was in a straight line from the ribbon, I was able
to work my way down hill to that tree, and then I picked another feature and
worked my way to it, I was finally able to see a certain group of trees along
the road, and when I reached that point, I was pretty close to what I thought
might be the property line.
I forgot to mention I met my first neighbours on Saturday,
Bud and Joan. They own the cattle and
pasture across the road from me and had seen me walking up and down the road
and climbing the embankments, so they drove over to see if I was O.K., if I had
hit a deer or..? I told them I was just
looking for the property stakes. Today,
I met my second neighbour, He saw my gate open and drove up my driveway to
introduce himself. John Cotton. He was friends of the previous owner and told
me he had found the guy after he died.
He told me some stories.
He asked if I know how the water system worked and I told him no. He explained that he had
built the system and asked if I had seen the cistern and was it full? I told him it may be damaged and we talked
about repairing it. He was a little disappointed
that I won’t be moving here for 4 years.
His wife of 45 years is dying of cancer and is in the Olympia area. He is in his mid 70’s and is still driving a
dump truck and actively working. Bud is
92 or 97.
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