There is a long piece of pink flagging tape that has been tied to the chain-link fence behind our trees for as long as I've owned the house. I've never really thought anything of it. A week or two ago when we were trying to figure out how many of the trees are on our property, we used a tape measure extended along the fence between our house and Steve's to help us eyeball it, and it pointed right at the flagging tape, so apparently it was put there for that reason.Today, Brooke was looking outside and said to me, "Is there more flagging tape out there than before?" I had a look and there was definitely now two long strips of flagging tape at that location.
We went out to have a closer look and discovered a line of stakes with flagging tape attached going across the back of our property. It starts out at the fence on the right-hand side, but on the left it is a good 20 or 25 feet beyond our fence.
Our fence is 35 feet from Sharon & Brian's fence to the original pink flagging tape, so doing the math (let's just pretend it's a right-angle triangle) means this new area is roughly 400 square feet. That means we're not adding 400 sf to our yard, we're adding 800. To our original 500 sf yard.
I'm so excited; it's like Christmas. We haven't actually heard back from the surveyor yet that the entire space he's marked is ours, but I can't imagine he would have marked something OTHER than the property line! Our neighbours are pretty excited too. They figured their property went a couple of feet past their fence, but this is enormous.
Update: I've added a photo of the space beyond the fence.
It's a bit difficult to see (click on the picture to view it full-sized; use your back button to return to this post) but you can just see the chain-link fence at the left of the screen and is the left hand side of our property. The large tree at the right of the photo is on the "point" at the top of the sketch, above. So I guess we've found what we're going to do with the fill from removing our hill: use it to fill in the valley behind it!
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I wanted to be the first to add a comment. It got complicated because I had to have a google account - oh well!
Looks like you are about to undertake another big project. I hope it goes well for you. It will be nice to have so much space for Charlotte to play in. I see swings in your future.......:)
Hi Mom! You could have clicked "Name/URL" under "Choose an identity" instead of leaving it on Google Account. But you're set up now! :)
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