Opus 2026-155: Daniel Boone Moment

I’m beginning to think that we may need to follow the example of Daniel Boone.  If you aren’t familiar with the folk tale, every time somebody moved in within a few miles of him, he felt like the neighborhood was getting crowded and he wanted to move west.  We live in the Hill Country of Texas.  When we moved in, there were a fair number of empty lots and most people have been there a while.  It felt very country.  Things are changing.  I don’t think there are any empty lots left.  The light pollution from quarries and such in the area are making it where you can hardly see stars at night.  We have a business being built at the entrance.  The housing developments are going on all around us.  So far they manage to keep them disguised by not cutting all the trees down but when you look at an aerial map, you can see the huge complexes that are already there and others that are being planned.

What’s the man to do?  Is it time to move?  Is there any place that we can move that has running water and electricity that is not crowded by the peasants of the world?

Of course, they probably say the same things about me.

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