Homesteading in the Southwest Central Utah Desert-3 - Neighbors 1

Welcome my Steemit friends today I take you to my pioneer farm - ranch and write a series on it. This is part 1 0f Neighbors 1-.

There are many things to know about living on the frontier and one of the most important is the neighbors. Are they good neighbors or bad? And, if they are bad how bad are they? Are they the founding fathers of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre clan?

Maybe they are not quite that bad but land is at a premium these days, even though it isn't. The first three pictures are of something horrible neighbors do so be aware of it. This is one of many things a real horrible neighbor could do. And likely as it is, the neighbor isn't really a neighbor because they live ten or more miles away. Not a neighbor by your thinking anyways. More like kin, relatives, or not within a hundred mile radius. And you ain't kin. Or so they might think.

The purpose of these pictures is to show you something and make you think about it. In the next photograph, I will show you a little bit more so that you can accustom yourself to spotting real odd behaviors. So, there is a hint for you, just what is happening here?

I will give you a little hint. This is Antelope Springs, Utah (One of many in the state like Indian Creek so knowing the name presents a problem to any investigating agencies). Many names for places are the same. There is only so much creativity available in naming a place that all looks about the same as everywhere else.

Now, what you see in these pictures is a 200 gallon gravity feed diesel fuel tank. The fuel tank is feeding a huge loud generator powered by diesel sitting in that stock or horse trailer there. It makes a tremendous amount of noise and it operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It is about a quarter of a mile maybe .3 kilometers in a direct line from my house.

It was put there at the source of a spring that runs right through my northern twenty acres. I will show you what it does and why it is there besides to drive us crazy on purpose in a later post.

So, the neighbors section is training like the other homesteading chapters only this training is about spotting real weird stuff. If you can spot it. Then you will have an idea as to whether or not you will be burned off your property, shot and the blame laid on an indigenous hobo, or some other such thing.

You see, out here is the perfect place to raise certain illegal weeds and plants and that is very lucrative, or so I am told. And because there are not very many other jobs, well make sure you do not stumble into and stay for something owned by "El Chapo".

As we say in the army, stay alert, stay alive.

Now I really hope you enjoyed this post and that you are laughing at it because it is always funny if you read about it happening to someone else and is more like hell for you and your kin if you are the ones to have to survive it, if you do.

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Homesteading Part 1
Homesteading Part 2
Homesteading Part 3
Homesteading Part 4

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