Well, I figured it would happen sooner or later. Trespassers.

Now, before we get too carried away, there are a handful of possibilities going on here.

Im fairly confident these aren’t the surveyors I hired. Not that late in the day. This could be some people who are lost. They could have mistook this parcel for a different one. It could be one of my ‘neighbors’ who is curious to see if the piece of land that has sat empty and unvisited for the last several years has had some activity (which, yes, is still trespassing.) It could even be a concerned neighbor who saw recent tire tracks there and decided to investigate. So, probably nothing nefarious, but a) I need to keep an eye open for this SxS to determine who it belongs to and b) I need to get the very politely worded no trespassing signs up.

No doubt someone is going to ask about closing off the driveway somehow…chain across it, etc. All the roads up there are easements to allow people to be able to access their properties. This is why when I was looking for properties I made sure to avoid ones that had roads cutting them in half. My piece has a tiny bit of a corner of the property that bumps up against a road. Thats it. My ‘driveway’ is a road (and thats a super generous description) that dead ends in the middle of my property…meaning there is no reason for anyone to be on that road since it goes literally nowhere except to a dead end on my property.

I don’t want to do anything flagrantly unfriendly or un-neighborly. I don’t want the people who do reside up there full time to think the ‘newcomer’ has an attitude and adopt an ‘us vs him’ mentality. But, of course, at the same time, I didn’t drop all that money to not have privacy.

So, next trip up there gets a ‘Please do not trespass” sign on a stake hammered into the middle of my driveway so there’s no mistakes about “I didnt see your sign”.