Alderaan Acres!!!

This all will eventually be a field for kids to play on and for me to train my dogs.  Oh yeah the goats like to eat the grass too. :)

This would be part of the homesite.  I had it cleared and leveled for a doublewide mobile home.  Don't ever deal with mobile home salesmen.  They are all crooks.  So I decided that I would just wait and build the dream house.

I guess you would call this the front yard for the house I'm gonna build.

NEWS FLASH!!!!  Well I finally got some fruit trees planted.  I planted 2 cherry trees, 2 apple trees and 2 Carpathian English Walnut trees. On the picture above and to the left the trees are planted in the middle of the picture. :)2/20/05 UPDATE I finally fence the orchard in so the goats won't eat my trees and asparagus that I am going to plant in there. :)

Here we have 2 different views of the pond I have dug.  I like to describe it as the physical manifestation of my hardheadedness. LOL  It has been dug by hand with shovel and pry bar through mostly rock.  Larger than a garden pond, but not big enough to be called a farm pond.

The orignial idea behind the pond was to be the finishing pond for a natural water treatment system for my dog kennel.  I read about some places out in the southwest that treat their water this way with plants and bacteria.   I haven't completely given up on the idea, but I am worried what the county will think, and how do I keep the filtration plants alive during the cold missouri winters. :)