Lost Lease Places

File this under "Nothing else to talk about today"

We’re losing a lease place we’ve run cattle on for ~20 years so we have to cut back on the herd.  Unfortunately it wasn’t a surprise that we lost the place.

For 15 years my dad refused to upgrade the road fence because he knew the owner would take the place back for himself if he did.  In March of 09 I finally got him to cave in and we rebuilt the road fence for safety reasons with an assurance from the owner that we’d have at a minimum three more years on the place.  Well, since then the new neighbors have all decided to build new fence along the place (he doesn’t go halves on property line fence, “if you want to build a fence just build a fence, I don’t want anything to do with it”).  So now that he has new fence on all four boundaries, like clockwork,  he wants to start raising cattle on his own now and has kicked us off.

A farming community full of old German men is a tough contemporary group but he manages to rank #1 for the $AHole index.