When I've moved home my mom asked me: 'Car or land?' 'Land of course.' I answered. Value of a car is dropping exponentially from the moment you've bought it. Plus government sucking your blood out via cars. So, fuck it. I'm happy with my downhill bike. Therefore we have started looking for a good piece of land. Somewhere nearby my town. The soil is nothing but damn blown sand hereabout. Probably one of the worst in the whole country. However vines and fruit trees like it, combined with plentiful sunny hours a year. That's how apricot is going to be so sweet like nectar, here on hungarian Great Lowland. So, I found a land estate ad on the net in June. I called the owner and arranged a meeting at the ground. After ten minutes drive out of the city we, me and my family, got to a dirt road on the right. After a turn we had to drive another 500 meters (547 yards) and finally we were there. It was an old orchard. 4410 square meters, which is approximately one acre (1,09). There are two wells on it. One is a dug well. The other one is drilled well. The dug well has five concrete rings before it reaches the water surface. So to speak it's quite deep. A cleaning then a sanitizing could be useful before using. The drilled well need a pit with masonry walls, otherwise sand will get into the pipe and fucks up the pump. Actually the pump is an old russian model which is good and bad at once. Good because such pumps can handle tons of working hours before die. Flow is quite high. But! If you fuck it up there are no spare parts for it anymore. So, I need to build a proper well pit with solid walls. Otherwise sand will make water turbid and ruins the pump. Plenty of rubbish were everywhere on the property. Fruit trees were very old. Lots of them died out already. Even those which looked okey needed a thorough pruning. There were five ailanthus trees. If you don't know them they are weed like trees: you can use it for nothing. Its wood has a very low heating value. You can't use it for furniture or carpentry works either, because it is fragile. Top of all it's stinky. On the other hand it can grow everywhere and throttles other, important cultivated trees. Basically the whole orchard was totally negleted. Weed covered the entire land, up to knees high. Fence was also in bad shape. Whoever built it they did not use fencing wire. Therefore the square fence wire hangs badly from concrete posts all around by now. Some of the posts need to be reerected, because they are out of vertical position. This situation caused by lack of proper foundation of the posts. A quarter of a right side of the land estate were missing the wire fence. Good thing is it has electricity and gaspipe too stops just at the corner of the fence. Those two wells are advantage as well. At least I don't have to run to a water engineer for plans, then to city council, Water Directorate, a well drilling company and so on for construction permit, spending severe thousands. Than again the same thing for occupancy permit.
So, I seen a potential in that piece of land, but it will take lots of hard work, which I'm not afraid. That's why I said yes to the pretty and young female owner. Shaken hands and the journey has began...
So, I seen a potential in that piece of land, but it will take lots of hard work, which I'm not afraid. That's why I said yes to the pretty and young female owner. Shaken hands and the journey has began...

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