I love my new neighbor.

[7L Farm]

I live in the country have a hundred acres & live on top of a hill.Anyway, some developer comes in & buys the property next to me. I hate it but anyhoo that's life. Well, one day I'm cleaning some catfish on a tree. The developers foreman comes to the fence line & ask me how high does the water get here. They had put a water well in already but I told him you can't build there it will flood. Guess, they should of listened. I love my new neighbor he's a sharp guy.

 

[easteregger96]

OMG! That is hilarious! I am lucky. We have a 40 acre farm in a valley all to ourselves. We love it! So quiet and I don't have to worry about our rooster waking anyone up. I love the picture! I gotta show this to my husband when he gets home! He will love it! LOL!

I live in the country have a hundred acres & live on top of a hill.Anyway, some developer comes in & buys the property next to me. I hate it but anyhoo that's life. Well, one day I'm cleaning some catfish on a tree. The developers foreman comes to the fence line & ask me how high does the water get here. They had put a water well in already but I told him you can't build there it will flood. Guess, they should of listened. I love my new neighbor he's a sharp guy.

 

[easteregger96]

Some people are so book smart that common horse sense doesn't make any sense to them. So funny 7L Farm! I just had to comment on it again!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Looks like you may have finally gotten some rain in Texas. That's good.

When I relocated to here, if we were interested in a house, we got some topographical maps and looked at them before we made an offer. I'm 40 vertical feet above creek level where I am now. I don't expect to flood here, though the road did wash in heavy rains last year.

We did not even consider a couple of nice new houses we looked at. They were built lower than the road. In a heavy rain, water would flow along the road and come down the driveway to the house. I could have done some landscaping and directed the water away from the house, but the driveway would still wash out. It would be a constant maintenance issue.

It seems like when a lot of people on this forum plan their coops and runs, they only think about the good days. I try to think of how it will work when the days are not really good. Maybe I'm a pessimist at heart. I guess maybe you have to be an optomist to be a developer.

 

[7L Farm]

Looks like you may have finally gotten some rain in Texas. That's good.
When I relocated to here, if we were interested in a house, we got some topographical maps and looked at them before we made an offer. I'm 40 vertical feet above creek level where I am now. I don't expect to flood here, though the road did wash in heavy rains last year.
We did not even consider a couple of nice new houses we looked at. They were built lower than the road. In a heavy rain, water would flow along the road and come down the driveway to the house. I could have done some landscaping and directed the water away from the house, but the driveway would still wash out. It would be a constant maintenance issue.
It seems like when a lot of people on this forum plan their coops and runs, they only think about the good days. I try to think of how it will work when the days are not really good. Maybe I'm a pessimist at heart. I guess maybe you have to be an optomist to be a developer.

Exactly, do your homework before you build. What I don't understand is why did he ask me & then turn right around & build.Heck I'm on a hill & a liitle water got in my barn that I live in. O'well.

 

[Matthew3590]

Is that he house they were building?

 

[7L Farm]

Is that he house they were building?

Yes, thats the house going up as I type.

 

[KrisH]

Were they planning on building a dock for the boat?
RobertH

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

They should have put it on stilts...heck maybe they can do that now....jack it up and put the stilts on. Rather than tear the whole thing down.

 

[theotherranch]

Or an indoor pool maybe?