The Great EscapeChapter 2
All right! I had the land, a foreman and enough cash to get established and hopefully last at least two years before I was dependent on income. I had no illusions about the cost of setting up a farming operation and hoped that I'd not forgotten one of the big ones—those little love notes from god that turn around and bite you in the ass. The properties taken together were a real mish-mash of small fields of arable land, grazing land, lowlands and mature woods. There were roads inter-sped...