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Re: First Visit of Spring to Property #2 

By: ribit in POPE 5 | Recommend this post (1)
Sun, 31 Mar 19 11:04 PM | 65 view(s)
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so the pool water may completely refresh itself every week. I'm not going to DRINK it, but the water looks pretty good.

...have it tested. It could be a lifesaver after a SHTF moment.

The Paw Print? Looks like a velociraptor to me. Run for the hills.




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First Visit of Spring to Property #2
By: Decomposed in POPE 5
Sun, 31 Mar 19 7:54 AM 		Msg. 29156 of 62138

I visited property #2 today for the first time in a couple of months. The last time I was there, the driveway was deep in hardpack and ice… treacherous even to walk on and forced me to consider the possibility of it being unusable in the winter even for a 4x4 with chains.
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Today, though, I was hoping to find that the driveway passable since I need to badger the utility company to get up there and give me my electricity! The last thing I need is for them to show up and report back that the driveway is snowed in.
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So I was expecting to find snow. Property #1 still has some after all and it isn't as far to the north as property #2. But then #2 is southern facing and is about 150 feet lower in elevation. So maybe? I got there and found the snow to be practically gone. Great news! But… on closer inspection... aw, nuts! Here are the photos.


As you can see, I've got some work to do. This tree is huge. The part on the driveway is nearly 2 feet in diameter at its widest. It would have been worse if the tree hadn't snapped about ten feet up. Its base, still vertical, is more like 2.5 feet across. This tree is so tall that its top went ALMOST all the way to the street!
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I've also got a second tree you can see that's leaning hard over the driveway. It needs to come down. It's tall but skinny, nowhere near the size of the one that already fell.
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On the brighter side (no pun intended), the driveway will get more sun now!


Here are a couple of shots of the field. It's not too attractive right now what with all of the matted brown grass, but grazing animals would probably appreciate it. The top of the field used to have a really nice tree right there in the middle. I'm a little bit bummed that it to fell victim to the winter, because I was planning on using that tree as the starting point of a zip line. It's all good though. The tree obviously wasn't as strong as it looked.
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I expect the field to be nice and green in a month.


This next one had me scratching my head, but I think I've got it figured out. Somebody went to the trouble to haul a good-sized tree out of the forest and dump it on my land! Why would anyone do that?
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The answer, I think, is that the folks who maintain a snowmobile trail that runs along my perimeter would do it. As you can see, somebody cut this tree. It didn't just fall and get moved here. It also looks like it's been dead for a while, so I think it died a while ago but remained upright and finally fell. Snowmobilers took a chain saw to it and then hauled it into the field to keep their trail clear. I've got mixed feelings about that. The snowmobilers are welcome to drive across my land, at least until I live there, but by dumping a tree where they did they've created work for me. Not cool.


I have come to refer to this as 'the swimming pool.' Two hills meet here. One seeps a little water giving the pool a small but steady source of fresh water, and the other hill is my field. I'd guess that the runoff from my field is substantial when it rains, so the pool water may completely refresh itself every week. I'm not going to DRINK it, but the water looks pretty good.
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At some point in the past, somebody trenched it out and it is about 6 feet deep in the middle. I'd guess its other dimensions to be be 60' x 15'. After the septic system is in, I'm going to have the contractor who operates the excavator dig this pool out more so it'll be wider and deeper. He's already said he will. It would make a good swimming hole if it were a little deeper... or even a place to raise fish. The barn is a hundred yards away from the pool and a bit downhill which is perfect if I want to have it as an emergency water store.


Deer are abundant. I had to watch where I stepped.


And what do you guys make of this? When I saw it (in the barn construction area), I first thought it might be a mountain lion track - especially since there were a lot of deer tracks present too. But, looking online, authorities say there are no mountain lions in New Hampshire. I also see that mountain lion tracks, dog tracks and coyote tracks look similar to rookies like me. The simplest answer is usually the best one, so I'm leaning toward DOG. But, wow, if that's what it is then he's a big fella with some serious claws!



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