so whent back out more to wander around than anything else...
ive discovered my rather effective way of getting through brush...put your head down your arms infront of your face and push forward...it was rather effective against all but the thorny things which i simply made course adjustsments to avoid.
after an unsucessfull atempt ar prying some wood off some old pallets, i need a crowbar, but most of them are so rotted on the underside form being sat in the leaves that im not sure there worth trying to salvage that way...im thinking a better choice would be to rip off the rotted wood from the bottom and leave the dry ok top boads attatched to the main stays...not yet sure what id use them for since it seems the "good side" (read side with the planks closest together) is the side thats been put face down on most of them...but im sure i can use them for something
but yeah after that unsucessfull attempt, and a mostly unsucessfull attmept to drag an intact pallet through the brush i decided id A.D.D on it and go explore., so i decided to chec out the section to the back of the property.
the bad news is, the brush is DENSE...that is the area im going to start the goats on as soon as i get them, its brush and thorns untill you reach a little dry creek/run off bed, in some areas its very shallow, in other spots its about 6 ft deep where the water has worn away at the ground, and some realy gool old roots exposed, once you cross the creek, (theres plneyt of low spots to cross) it opens up qite nicely, its heavily TREED, but theres little to no under grown/brush back there, AND theres a fence along the back property line...its old, its rusty and its ugly, but at least i now KNOW where that line is at the very least. i explored a little back there before forcing my way back through the jungle to saftey
theres ALOT of potetnaitl with this land...getting to that potential however is going to take ALOT of work. im sure the goats will clear out alot of the brush fairly quickly once they are old enough to eat it...but im still going to have to go in with some heavy duty pruners and even have someone come in to thin some of the trees out...itll be incredibly dark back there once the leaves come back lol.
once i forced my way back to the clearing i stood there like a lemon trying to figure out where i want things...
i think ive decided where my rabbit pens are going as well as the start for the "orchard".
ive decided im not going to do a huge veggie patch my first year, instead sticking with a small kitchen garden by the back deck for spring consisting of some raised beds, im thinkign 4 at 4x8 and 2 at 4x4 with a 2x2 second teir on top (strawberries in 1, herbs in another), that should give me more than enough veggies to get myself started but not overwhelmed.
ive decided spring will bring goats, chickens, ducks and rabbits...im not adding enything else until the property is much more acessable, because right now i just cant properly visualize where everything will go with all the brush in the way and im not the kind of person to set fences and stuff up only to have to rip everything out later because i prefer a different layout lol.
i also found another fence hidden in the brush, once again rusted with 2 strand barbed wire on top, t-posts, but it just proves that at one point this place had pastures/pens and people to love it...
just pushing my way through the brush, so many CRACKS from dead wood snapping off privets and trees that havent seen any kind of managment in i dont know how long...the 2 little sheds have calenders in them from the 70's, sad to think the last time they were used for much more than junk storage was before i was even born.
speaking of the sheds...the 2 i thought would simply fall over any day seem potentially sturdier in frame than i thought, the floors are rotted out in both and there both missing the back side, but i think there might be some life in them yet.
gonna have to clear thwm out completly, which will be fun since the floor is falling through and a woodchuck has his tunnel complex under them...and hack back the brush at the back, but i think some new plywood and mabe some siding, they Might be salvagable...MIGHT...location wise its where id personally plan to put a coop and it might beeasier to put new floors and siding on the existing structure than it would be to knock them down and build new...
oh they both would need new roofs too.
but first id have to remove about 4 old broken doors, a couch, lots of trash and a toilet from them...LOL!
oh my goodness....soooo much to do.
And to see Jack Jack 
Goodness, you has alot to do 
Hey Pinky!
