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Saturday, February 9, 2019

Wintery weather

Arrived at the oasis yesterday evening after dark, worried that my potted Tree Tobacco plants would freeze where I had left them outdoors. Luckily, they were OK but last night got way colder, so good thing I put them inside last night. The one I had planted by the new tank was the best looking one, so I planted five more today.


Got up this morning to a bad bout of vertigo. Had to take medication to function, but got done what I needed to. Tree Tobacco not making much of a showing by the tank but I hope it'll look awesome in a couple of months.


I saw some horses grazing on the ranch across the fence from the oasis. Since the rickety fence is pretty useless, I can easily imagine my next battle to preserve my habitat will be with that rich rancher. And it won't be the first time.




4 comments:

  1. Does he not share in expenses for maintaining the fence line? Ah well. I guess I needn't ask.

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  2. That's a valid question but it's his legal obligation to keep his animals contained to his property. If I had livestock, then we would probably have to share fence maintenance, but I don't and there's no law I have to help pay to keep animals off my property.

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    1. That may not be entirely correct. In many instances if you don't want livestock on your property you have the obligation to build a fence to keep them off. Please refer to this article for some possible exceptions to this.
      https://agrilife.org/texasaglaw/2014/05/19/texas-fence-law-open-range-or-not-part-1/

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  3. Brewster County isn't an open range county. I have taken people to court before about their cattle damaging my trees and I've won. Presidio County may be different, I don't know.

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