Update on the Property - Part V

April 18, 2008

Written by: Katie

After everyone got sufficiently wet we decided to take another check up on the building site. I had been unable to get pictures earlier because Jodi is so demanding. But here you can see how big the site is.

The footprint is about 40×24. There will be 3 levels (2880 sq ft) plus an addition off the front of 540sq ft. That gives us a total of 3420 sq ft.

When we had been up there earlier (before getting drenched) there had been some gunfire. We all whirled around to find a man sitting on his tailgate in the middle of the road shooting his gun off into the woods. Jeff walked to the edge of our building site and proceeded to snap photos of the man. He quickly changed his mind about breaking the law (shooting from the roadway is illegal) and left.

When we had been at the building site again for a bit the cranky neighbors appeared and proceeded to dump stuff on their burn pile and light it. As it turns out that burn pile is actually on our property. There was another neighbor visiting us at the time and let us know that the cranky neighbors have been in trouble with the law before. He suggested that Jeff document them using our property. Just in case.

So Jeff started snapping photos. He was pretty far away. Visible but not nearly in their face. The girlfriend of the neighbor (btw, we went and introduced ourselves when we first bought the place and they were friendly and nice) yelled over to Jeff “Would you like us to pose for you?” and then “May I ask why you are taking pictures?” To which Jeff offered no answer.

Then Matt, who is actually the owners son and the one that has been in trouble before, grabbed his shot gun and started firing into the air. His girlfriend yelled at him but he continued to fire off a total of 3 shots. We just stood there and stared over at him.

Here is how the property is laid out. Our property line runs along the red line on the bottom and the purple triangular-ish shape on the sides. The blue line is the Little Pine Creek and the blue X is where we go play by the water. The red X is where we are building. There is an elevation change of about 40 ft from the blue X to the red X. Do you see the yellow triangle area? That is the area that is our pasture but the neighbors have claimed as their own.

We just have a peace about it and think that God will work the whole thing out. As pro-active as we usually are we just feel this is something that we want to wait out and see what happens. In the meantime the building continues.

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