I suppose I should start with the most basic stuff first, and water is the obvious place to begin. Here is a picture of our spring about 8 or 9 hundred feet from the house. Excuse the dirty lens, please…
testing this post – more to come
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comrade simba 
January 31, 2011 at 2:23 am |
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Hard water in that thar spring?
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January 31, 2011 at 9:37 am |
Lucky bastard. Awww, I know it wasn’t luck, you looked hard for a place that fits your scenario. Pretty damn rocky, though.
Both places we have are prairie but have caves underneath them. No bubbling out of a hillside, because there isn’t really a hillside on them. The biggest one has three ponds that never dry up (not in 175 years anyway). But there are streams down there inside heirloom hand-dug wells. One has a damn to re-direct the stream under the hole that came out in the top of the cave ceiling a little ways off target.
One place just has a couple of sink holes on it and it is uphill on every compass heading. I’ve got cave crystals and stalagtite rock edging some of the plantings and in some of the foundation to the house, though. …No DNR then, and you just dug wherever the wand gave you a tug. I doubt that a pond bottom will hold anything on that one. Not even if I haul in a bunch of clay. But it does float all the limbs and the telephone pole the utility company gave me every time we have a frog strangler. Nobody seems to be using chemicals right around me, anyhow.
I’m between a pretty good river and a couple of pretty good streams, but they are three-to-five miles away, and a pretty good public-access spring closer. There is reduced public access to the streams and river since the new bridge construction frenzy here in the county stole everybody’s easement by prescription to go fish or splash around on the rocks when it gets hot, sit around and drink at a fire on summer nights. There aren’t many boat/canoe launch ramps, either, like in most of the rest of the state. There are a couple of places you could toss a canoe into. I think the bridges were a conspiracy to deprive the holi-poli of water access.
I’m thinking of litigating before the statute runs out on some of those new bridges. Case law is real good about easement by prescription in Missouri. Families that have been using places since settlement, and later-arrivals have a right to go there, one that can’t be legally taken away.
I already won one with a farmer who was taking over the family cemetery access on the q.t. He fenced it off and started in with a front-end loader. Somebody called my Dad. Saw it from the highway. Bastard had to put in new fence and a couple of new gates, and hook up his locks with ours. He has his key, we have ours.
The damage to some of the 1820-30s gravestones was irreparable. He dishonored a couple of revolutionary war vets’ graves and a whole bunch of Mexican War and Civil War vets and their families there. Oldest resting place in the County. Headstones are getting real hard to read, the limestone they used is pretty soft.
I guess that isn’t about planting seeds but about who already got planted, but it is somewhat about water. I could take pics. I never went down the hill to your spring. Something about chiggers and snakes, if I remember right.