My back yard

i based my guess on what i thought an acre was (which i guessed is like 209 x 209 feet

 

I just hang bamboo screens on the sides of my back deck. I rarely go all the way out into the yard nude, although I have. I have shrubbery, but my side neighbors could see me if they really wanted to. One of them is cool about it, the other not so much, so I restrict myself to the deck, for the most part. It's not a severe restriction ... there's plenty of room and I can have sunshine or shade as I wish. Where I live, shade is critical in the summer!

 

tall fences make the best neighbors is always what I was told

 

"Good fences make good neighbors".

From "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost.

 

Nope. That's only .067 acre.

Nope. That's only .229 acre.

Well, close enough. The street side is 100', then one side is 101.1', the opposite side is 125.2'. So doing some basic math that actually comes to .259756657. The error being -0.000243343 acre, it means only 10.6 sq. ft. error.

Even if I showed you the plat, unless you look at it in pic or in person, you wouldn't understand the complexity of the matter. Sometimes even I don't.

At one time back in the 20's through the 50's there were a couple of town streets. Now, 60+ years later, the two streets are now MY property, and now overgrown with grass and a couple of fruit trees. They were official streets, but no pavement (the roads here were paved around '95).

I thought about paving them, for entertainment reasons ("Yes, actually I DO own the street!"), and I thought of adding a few things here and there to add to the flavor. My own street names, a foreign traffic sign, and where the road dead ends a "bridge out" barrier & sign.

As for the privacy, I dunno. I just walked out there nekkid, and it felt good. Ah! After all these years of being harassed and terrorized and even assaulted and arrested in my home, this place is MINE! Finally! I love it!

 

Arundo donax


No but seriously, don't let that fuckin' plant anywhere near your property, when you have to break out the machete and the ground is one giant root, it's not so cool.

 

Just take the square root to make it smaller!:2thumbsup:

But not planting invasive "Little Shop of Horrors" plants in the first place is a whole lot easier! Good advise!

I am trying out various privacy shrubs and trees to provide additional screening beyond what the fence can do.