A Fence for Paradise

So what's next. Let's see... a fence! We're going to take the trees we cut down and cut them into fence posts. My Ozarks guy already has a post hole digger. On Monday he is going to measure from my property marker that's on the right side of my blue cabin, slightly behind it, to 25' from the center of the dirt road. The road is 25' wide with a 10' easement, which equals 22.5 feet to my front property boundary. So that gives us a bit of leeway, you always want your fence to have a bit of room on the other side that also belongs to you so you can make repairs.

The hog wire will be very strong and we'll cement the posts in. That will keep out dogs. It will also keep out any wild pigs, coyote's, wolves, bears, etc. or at least slow them down plus you can see through it. Having a nice clear place in the backwoods also invites people to dump their trash there, so a fence is essential to keep that from occurring.

My plan is to start small, just the right side boundary from the marker to the road. He already made a driveway/parking area right there, so it is already now cleared. I'm SO happy to finally have a driveway/place to park. I've never once parked on my own land since I bought the land. The neighbor let me park in his driveway when I visited.

When I bought the land in 2017 I was the ONLY ONE out there. It was off-grid and hadn't had human visitors for probably a hundred years, which means never. I have a video made by a local person who hunts and he described how uninhabited that area is. I don't post where it is, or videos that would give that info for privacy reasons but it is north of Little Rock, Arkansas, in the Ozarks, in an uninhabited area. Until now. Someone bought land next to mine a year after I did. As of this set of pictures I see I now have neighbors in an rv on the other side. So a fence keeps out dogs. I also just love fences. I've been planning my fences since BEFORE I bought any property.

The fun is in developing the land, figuring out what you want to do next. He asked me what size trees to cut down in the front yard which is 200' by about 75'. I said my vision of my front yard was pretty much bare. I am picturing only the large/huge trees left on my land. That will give me plenty of sunlight. With the sunlight I'll be able to plant medicinal, herb, and garden seeds, just sort of cultivate patches of land and bring in good topsoil and then plant whatever I think will grow there, including fruit trees. I'm picturing a Garden of Eden type of paradise. I even see where the waterfalls, the creek, and the pond will go. If you want to know the truth, the final version of my "cabin" looks a whole lot like the Tahiti overwater bungalows I stayed in and loved when I took a 3 week trip to explore French Polynesia, and that I write about, with my prequel novelette, "Island." I want that. I want it in the USA. I'm working on it, lol! I'm figuring out how to get water into my dry creek and a pond for it to go over. I create this on the Sims 3 game I love to play, all the time. Just a little overwater bungalow in a paradise, where I can write, study, drink my coffee, and dream, not too far away, that's all I want. One baby step at a time creates it. I just do a bit here and there so I don't overspend.

It is also so whatever I create is already paid for, step by step. First, I paid off the land itself, while simultaneously paying off a nice, big Rv I bought from my brother, who had bought it new a few years before he sold it to me. That took 2 years, the land took 3. Then I bought a high quality blue shed, from a dealership about an hour from my land, and the neighbor guy and I took my weedeater, I was storing at his house, cabin, that he built himself, off-grid, and cut out the easiest place I could find that was only a few feet from my front boundary line at the time, where it is now. I plan to move it but one step at a time and that was the only place.

It was also next to my little dry creek that gets water in it when it rains. I love creeks, hence "Angel Creek." I was lucky enough to have the experiences of land, growing up, here and there, with creeks. There's nothing like playing in the creek when you are a child. I would spend hours catching minnows, tadpoles, and crawdad's with a cup, then turning them loose again. It took about 3 years to pay that snake-proof, insulated, pretty blue shed/cabin off. Then I moved on to buying tools, which I keep in the shed, adding a super-duper locking system to keep my tools (and me) safe, and then hiring locals a bit at a time, usually 3 hours @ $50 total, to go out there, take "Before" and "After" photos for me, which I keep in my files, and weedeat, pick up branches, and occasionally chainsaw trees. Their sending me the pictures let me see my land and envision what to do next. It also let me discover the creatures I write about, see my short-stories. So the tools, and the work done so far is paid for. See how this works? You don't have security if you owe money on what you own for security. This way, you do.

So, I want a 50' fence on the right side of the cabin for now. Then a 50' fence on the opposite left side boundary, 200' away. Then the front fence and a gate. I'm picturing a higher wood or stone fence as the back fence so I have complete privacy. I don't like to be able to see my neighbors, that's why I bought out there in the first place. But you modify as you go, so a solid fence behind the cabin and eventually on the back sides. If I had a million dollars, or more, that would be a brick or stone fence about 8' high and a foot thick. But we do what we can. I had a fence like that around my yard in Houston, when I had a townhome, when my kids were little and I LOVED it. I'm a fence type of person. I like security, that's why this project exists in the first place when I don't even live there. It is FUN, my type of fun, creating, developing, designing, dreaming, putting it into place a footstep at a time.

My late husband and I did this for 6,000 hours (each) at Chapelgate, restoring and building and making our vision a reality and it turned out gorgeous. My parents have done the same for 45 years with their own land. I remember when my dad first bought the land in Tennessee, I was with him, in High School, and I teasingly called him "Daniel Boone" because he was SO excited exploring his new land. I even have stories in my trunks from way back then. In one story I'm alone in their little rv, on their land, a bit later, and I hear chainsaws far away where no chainsaws were supposed to be - on OUR land. This actually happened. Brave little teenage me jumped up, put my tennis shoes on and marched out to the back acres to confront the welders of the chainsaws. They were cutting down OUR walnut trees. I made them stop, then told Dad, so they'd STAY stopped.

That's my personality, I did the same at Chapelgate, I confronted trespassers and sent them packing time after time, alone and loud. I had a vision of what I wanted my land to be and I MADE it happen. I completely turned the Chapelgate property around from what it was to what it became. I always do, and my vision is grand, gorgeous, and I bring it into existence, just like I do with my Bible studies work I've done to take Christianity into true Jesus taught Christ Consciousness just like the original Bible is describing. That was a journey, and I'm still on it. This is my land journey, my Eden. Enjoy the ride. Next: a fence. xo

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Written April 13, 2025 at 1:42 pm