Worthless Land

 Today there are expensive houses built on land that 100-years ago that house would never been built there, no matter how great the view may be. It's too far from town. It isn’t farmland. With the exception of the timber, such land is worthless. The only reason such land is valuable these days is the automobile made the land valuable.

Automobiles define us by social status, wealth, age, class. Education define us. Social standing is how we are viewed. It’s what we are. Heck, even our expensive cell phones define us, rather they are paid for or not.

These days hardly anyone can believe someone can be happy without a refrigerator and television. In this current culture of convenience, when someone goes off grid people say they’re crazy. Their own close kinfolk will say they're insane, out of their mind.    

There used to be a time in America when people helped each other. If there was a poor family in the community, neighbors would try to help them. Now, in this culture of convenience, the neighbor calls Child Protective Services.  

 

 

Raw Land

This writing is a little late. 

On September 18, 2020, we built an extension fence to place 2 Apple Trees on the Homestead. My plan is to have a small orchard. I sprayed weed/grass killer on the new driveway, on a dirt pile, and in several other areas. 

On October 2, 2020, we mowed the Homestead. The weed/grass killer made weed-eating much less, and easier. 

When we purchased this lot, it was raw land. There was no buildings on the land. Nothing. There still isn't any infrastructure. The land, as it is right now, is almost worthless. There are no resources to build with, no old dug well or cellar hole. I suppose it could be argued that the land is junk land. I know one thing, it will take extensive work to make it marginally productive.