I realised soon enough that I should have listened to Dad.
My old man told me, more than once, never to buy a tractor with a neighbour. The neighbour would need to sow when you wanted to reap, he said. And naturally enough, he’d want to reap when you needed to sow. The fuel gauge on the thing would always hover on the middle frond of the letter E.
It was a bush block in the Strathbogie Ranges with creek frontage, waterfalls and long views, cast with an array of granite boulders that gave it a monumental feel, as if you were walking through the garden of some goliath Rodin. Neither Jim nor I could afford it, so we decided to pool our money and become partners. Happy Adams holding title on a petite Eden – nature’s protectors, keeping hungry agriculture at bay. At the auction, we were so excited we spent way over our reserve. But, you know .
First, we fought over the size of the shack we were going to build. Then Jim explained his plans to fell redgums to see the creek better. “We’re not cutting any trees,” I said. “You take a chainsaw out of your ute and I’ll shoot it.”Eventually, and fatally, Jim confessed he planned to bring busloads of his artist friends to the place to paint. “Brushmen,” he called them, though they were many genders. I laughed and said I’d rather host day trips from asylums.
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