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