One of the first things we had to do when we gained access was to mow again. This would only be our 3rd time all year to mow, so the grass was tall. Wade and I had been discussing all year what kind of mower we wanted. He was set on getting a ZTR like […]
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Working the land
We bought our property in January. At the end of the month, our local master gardeners had a tree sale. We bought 1 of each navel orange, blood orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, apricot, pear, fig, avocado, and some blackberries. Around the last frost, we went and planted them all. Every few days, we jumped across […]
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When we tell people about our culvert, they cannot possibly understand what we are talking about. If you even KNOW what a culvert is, then you typically picture the round concrete pipe that the driveway goes over. Ours is a very special culvert. Just a review of our timeline…We bought our property mid-January. By mid-March […]
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As we continued struggling with our culvert, we proceeded to move forward with plans to build a house on our property (once we finally had access…). We put our house up for sale in April…had a contract on it in less than 3 weeks and closed the end of May. We figured that once the […]
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Over the course of the next 6 months, the culvert will become our biggest regret buying our property. Let me back up to pre-sale of our property. In the HAR description, it stated “Culvert must be installed per county specifications.” We thoroughly read the county page and from everything we could figure, the county will […]
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