My World ~ At the Crossroads


This is my first “My World” post. So join me as we walk down the driveway to the road. There we turn right and walk north along the road that you see in the banner at the top of this blog. Before long, we arrive at the intersection that marks the northeast boundary of our property. Next we’ll turn right so that we are facing east and we see the following as we look down the road.


You can almost see Curt and Meghan’s house peeking behind the tree on the right. Meghan is a fellow blogger so we’ll walk about 350 feet along the road so we can get a better look.


Can you see the lamb between us and the house? When we get back to the intersection we won’t be able to see the house on the northeast corner. So turn around and take a picture of the old Haller place.


That’s it. Hallers don’t live there anymore. A single fellow lives there now. He’s a friendly fellow and he has a couple of horses and a dog. Let’s go back to the intersection and look northeast to see his place from that angle.


You can see the barns, but the house is hiding behind the big barn. The horses don’t appear to be around as we take that photo. Now we’ll turn to our left and we are now looking northwest.


There is a deer blind. Our rural county has one of the highest rates of car/deer accidents in the state. In other words, there is no shortage of deer. I always wish the hunters good luck. It seems better to me for them to end up on the table than to be hit by a car. It is part of our rural way of life.

Turn left again and we are looking across Bob’s pasture field. A shallow drainage ditch runs across the pasture you can tell where it is, because the grass is greener there.


That pasture is across the road from our house. We don’t see it very well because of the trees and brush along our side of the road. A half turn left and we are looking south down our road. Bob and Rosemary live in the house on the right.


Our property is on the left and runs down to the big oak tree in the center of the picture. If you turn half left, you’ll see the house, garage and barn.


You are right. That is a lot of lawn to mow. I could not do it without the tractor. The tower supports the Amateur Radio antennas that Sylvia and I use. There are two of them, but you may not notice the shorter one at the corner of the garage. Okay, the picture shoot is done. Let’s go back to the house.


Here we are. Back at the house. I hope you enjoyed this short visit to my world.

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About Chuck

I am retired after a career in electronics and in publishing. Today, my wife of 50+ years, Sylvia, and I live in a house on a hill beside a dirt road in rural west Michigan. We enjoy living in this country environment where livestock and wild life out number the human population.

8 thoughts on “My World ~ At the Crossroads

  1. Love the rural setting. Only kind I can tolerate. Although we live on a main road, we are back away from traffic with open field behind. Barns and fields and puddles and trees! All good.

  2. Chuck, I certainly enjoyed the tour. Thank you ever so much for the nice walk. It starts my Tuesday Morning off very nicely. Have a great day, keep Smiling and already today you have MADE A DIFFERENCE….

    Colleen

  3. a happy tuesday to you and thank you for the tour…enjoyed seeing your part of the world.

  4. I enjoyed the tour, Chuck. I would love to live in a wide open space like that, but I’m not willing to give up my left boob (like Justine)!! 🙂 It’s so lovely to see land and sky and neighbors somewhat far away. I want to see this when it is all green and growing too–then I would be really envious!! It was fun to see where you live–I might have to steal that idea! Maybe when the gardens are in bloom and the waterfall is running in the pond. If that ever happens again….

  5. This was great, Chuck! It gave me a better perspective of what’s around you. I LOVE where you live. I would give my left boob to live in a rural place like that.
    But how far is the nearest store? That’s always important to a chick.

    And I can only imagine how much it cost to have those radio towers put up! EEKS!

    Justine 😮 )

  6. welcome to ‘our world’ what a peaceful place to live in, very different from London.

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