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That's a precious resource you have. We don't have that. We have a well, and try to keep our usage to a minimum, because we don't want it to go dry.

We've had several that did go dry on our hill. We paid extra to have ours drilled deeper than usual. Our next door neighbor on the lower end had to drill a new well a few years back.

Now some new people own that house, and they did a bunch of remodeling, and had to plant new grass. I couldn't believe they were out there during the last big summer drought watering their lawn.

We never water the lawn. What will grow will grow. What will die won't get planted again. That's the way it is for us.

We hauled water that summer for the perennials, and fruit trees, nut trees, and berries. Let the entire garden we planted burn up, except for some of my heirloom beds, where we grow the seeds for the next year.

If we had ever been able to build on our 20 acres, we have a big stream we could have used. I still think it would be good to plant some native trees like paw paws, persimmons, walnuts etc on the property. Then there would be more forage-able food that wouldn't require much attending.LOL

Our property includes a deep, shady draw where runoff from the blacktop flows toward the lake. This depression has a dozen paw paw trees and 10 or twelve hickories. It is alive with squirrels.

Three years ago, we planted some paw paws of a variety harvested in Tennessee and they've adapted to this ditch.

When we first bought this property in ‘97, we started planting pecans, walnuts, filberts and hickory nut trees from a nursery in NE Missouri. There are wild pecans and one or two other native nut trees here. The newcomers have adapted, except for one pecan tree that, because of a visit from a deer, is now a pecan bush.