Harvesting Has Begun

Reader Contribution by Nebraska Dave
Published on July 30, 2015
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Things seem to be growing really fast now that the rain has slowed and the heat has been turned up. The plants need daily watering with heat indices over 100. The humidity is high just the way the tomatoes like it. The nights are warm and humid and that makes the corn grow. My dad used to say that he could actually hear the corn grow. I can’t confirm nor deny that’s it true but other folks of his generation have said the same thing. Apparently it just kind of creaks and groans as it reaches for the sky.

Gardens all across the city are starting to pop. This is what gardeners have been waiting for since that first seed was poked into the peat pot to sprout. From now until frost, a gardener reaps what he has sown. Well, if he can get there before the wildlife. Did they weed the soil; did they till up the ground; did they plant the seeds; did they give care to the plants; did they water the plants when they were thirsty? It hardly seems fair that they think it’s all theirs to pig out on as they please.

While at the Terra Nova Gardens one day contemplating all the work that needs attention, along came a well-dressed man looking at all the properties on my side of the road. I asked if I could help him. He told me he was a real estate appraiser and was contracted by the power company to appraise easement rights for the properties on my side of the road. He continued to inform me that the power lines and poles would be replaced all the way from the distribution station to the end point. Being concerned, I asked just how many feet do they want for use. He indicated that it would be 34 feet from the curbside of the road. That would be half of my most developed part of the garden. They are supposed to send me a letter explaining all the details and what would be offered in the easement settlement.

Some of my friends encouraged me to just say no, but I suspect that would lead to court cases and it might be delayed, but eventually it would happen. I’m going to wait and see what happens. My philosophy with government, or in this case a utility company, is to just let them do what they want and then recover and carry on. Hopefully, they won’t damage much. The photograph below shows the pole that would need replacing. My garden fence posts, dwarfed by the power pole, are sticking up out of the ground six feet. So just a wild guess, this pole is about a 60-foot pole. Well, what shows above the ground, that is. I haven’t got a clue as to what’s under the ground.

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