So to continue our tour from yesterday, we continue up the laneway. When you reach the top, your view of the house is now blocked by a wall of tall "bamboo" grass.
It's not really bamboo grass but I have no idea of it's proper name so I've been calling it bamboo grass as it very similar as it fast growing and very tall with hollow stems, but I won't be building any huts out of it.
It does, however, create a great windbreak from the open farmer's field to our right and in the summer the grass turns a nice shade of green. This is a view of our property looking west from across the farmer's field.
And while we are discussing this farmer's field, let's take a quick detour and hang a right off the laneway to that strip of land I referred to yesterday. We went for a walk and I snatched my camera and took some images. We are now facing south in the photo below and the laneway is to your right, down a slight decline, on the opposite side of the hydro pole.
When you reach the bottom, this is where the strip of lands bends and the neighbours property begins.
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, we maintain this strip of land after the bend because it wraps around to the entrance of the woods and is far easier to walk on then the open farmer's field, especially for Chase.
To be honest, I'm not sure who this strip of land belongs to...either the farmer who's land runs adjacent to it or the township who owns this small old graveyard at the end of the strip of land. The strip of land is the only means of reaching the graveyard with a lawnmower. The only other entrance is a rickety old metal staircase. We do not mow the graveyard, the city comes and does that and has to drive across our property to this strip of land to do so. It is rather inconvenient.
Anyway, on the opposite side of the graveyard is the gate opening to the trails beyond.
We don't go any further then that nowadays because after last summer's wet and warm season, the grass grew unbelievably high...and nobody was willing to mow that!
I love this piece of land and when the boy isn't with us, me and the hubs will often venture past the gate to go exploring. We actually have dreams of renting this land for our herd of sheep some day. For now it sits empty and unused...well except for the wildlife that has made it home and the odd hike we make through it. Can't you just picture sheep doting this land?
But back to our tour and the laneway. Once you reach the end of our laneway, it forks in two directions.
I'm not really sure what the point was in the development of this fork other than a rather lazy person who couldn't take the extra few yards to go around that small patch of land between them. It is in that small patch of land that I keep my compost.
The fork to the left leads to the horse barn and the back of the house.
And the fork to the right leads to my least favourite view on the property. And I hate that it is one of the first sights to greet my visitors shortly after arriving at the farm.
Yes, that is our manure pile sitting wide open at the end of the laneway for all to see on a slab of cement.
I would love to move it behind the driveshed where it is out of sight and actually closer to the barn, but I have an immensely huge fear of setting off an unwanted fire, that until I can think of somewhere else to put it, it will sit here wide open on the cement slab for all to see where it cannot reach any buildings thank you very much.
Now not wanting to leave you with that image above, I'll leave you with this shot I caught of Skeeter standing in the garden next to the pond.
Looks like a wonderful place to live! Thanks for the tour. I wish we lived that far out. And yes, I can picture sheep on that pasture. That would be nice.
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I live a very simple life on a small hobby farm along with my husband, three kids, and an assortment of animals. Life may be simple but I love every minute of it.