At least I have Sylvia’s watercolor
  1. Two summers ago, I sold my share of the home place—the oldest part.
  2. My sister is furious with me.
  3. I did a land exchange for a place with no buildings and no well; only fences to maintain and volunteer cedars to remove.
  4. It’s closer to where I intend to live.
  5. I don’t have to watch the farmstead my grandparents built fall into ruin because I have no means to maintain it.
  6. The loss still hurts, but not as much as the ruins.