That's a strange title, but I am very bad at titles! 

I fell in love with our property when we saw it and wanted a few things to never change-like the paths that were already here and I wanted the hill to stay a meadow-we don't do anything with it and it's pretty steep.  The flowers on it are so pretty and it smells wonderful.  I wanted to have as few buildings as possible.  I'm kind of a romantic with the outdoors.  I like a bit of wildness here.

My dh (Pat) is a major project man.  LOL.  Do I need to say anything more?  We have done a lot of hard work building our house, the polebarn, putting up fencing and walk-out sheds for the animals.  And, boy is he good at building things!   But, now that the major projects are done, my project-man needs projects!

Yes, we're putting in a pond, but right now he can't work on that until he can get a trackhoe.  We have a new tractor now with a backhoe mount and having it here has put every tree here on the endangered list.  LOL. 

He made one of my paths wider-and now I don't like to walk on it. I'm also a person who doesn't like a lot of change.  The path is totally different now-no longer cozy and woodsy with lots of leaf canopy.

But, he needed it wider to plow thru there in the winter, because on the other end of the path is the winter pasture for the horses & cows and he needs to be able to drive thru there to get round bales to the animals.  I thought it was wide enough, but I guess it was harder to maneuver with the larger tractor.

Then, he had me walk with him to a little section of trees near where we have a table & chairs.  Before he even said a thing, I said, "Pat, leave the poor trees alone!"

He said, "but they're not doing anything here-they're junk trees."

I said, "trees don't DO anything-they just live, grow, give off oxygen and look beautiful.  Please allow these trees to live in peace."

I was teasing him and told him he needed to take the borrowed the backhoe attachment back to its owner before our property is a clear cut.  I told him he needed to fill out requisition slips before cutting anymore trees and he called me a tree-hugger.

This was all in fun-if you knew my dh-he is such a smart-aleck.  He is always teasing me and loves it when I tease him.

So, then we got talking about the footsteps we leave here while we're alive on this earth and I told him I'd really like to make the smallest footsteps on our property as possible. 

He laughed and said, "well, I like to take one giant step for Pat-kind."

But, he left the trees there and the backhoe is now gone, so the trees can all breathe a little easier now.  LOL.

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