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The driveway to the acre we lived on:

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My parents still own this chunk of land, which is exactly one acre.

My father purchased the property by working as a farm hand for the big rancher in the area, Billy Wallace.  The deal was that my dad would work for Billy for a year and he would be paid in one acre of land off the Wallace ranch.

Billy Wallace was a grumpy old bastard, so my dad knew he would stick exactly to the letter of their deal, while at the same time he would try to work it to his advantage as much as possible.  Normally when you purchase a plot of land from someone, the driveway gets thrown in for free, since obviously you have to have access to your land.  Dad knew Wallace would fight him on that, so when the time came for him to measure out the plot, he calculated it to precisely one acre, including the driveway.

So that's why I say it's exactly one acre.

All of these pictures were taken in the 1995-1999 timeframe.  We lived here in the late 70s.

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