Every morning at sunrise we are awakened by the sound of owls hooting in the trees in our backyard and shortly after we are reminded to get up by the sound of a rooster crowing, hens cackling, and geese honking.
We haven't really been able to walk past our back fence to see what the neighborhood behind us is like because there is a small creek and wildlife corridor running along the rear property line of our neighborhood which creates a physical barrier between our housing development and the homes due west of us. So today we decided to hop in the car and find out where that damn rooster lives.
Using our GBS mapping application, it did not takes us very much time to get to the street nearest to the back of our home, but even knowing that we were standing directly behind our home, we found it hard to see our home through all the trees and shrubbery along the creek and in our backyard.
When we had first moved in at the beginning of Summer, the creek was quite noisy with the sound of rushing water,
The creek's water level has dropped enough over the summer that it is now now more of a small , quiet spring gently flowing through a wildlife corridor that is filled with native semi-tropical wetland plants. It is really quite pretty and it does form a natural privacy screen.
Because of a very tall wooden fence around the back yard of the home nearest our yard, we never could see any of the chickens or the geese, but we could definitely hear them. Judging by the number of fruit trees and other edible plants I could see overhanging the fence, the owner of this property is very into self-sufficiency farming.
He wasn't alone.
We spotted several other homes in that housing development that were growing massive fruit and vegetable gardens. I loved it!
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