The Saga of the Hill

As most of you know, I own one acre of deviating-from-the-vertical land (what passes as flatland around here) and 8-9 not-deviating-from-the-vertical land (euphemistically know as a hill). And as I've posted before, I'm kinda, sorta interested in having above said hill cleared. And one thing that has been bouncing around in my head looking for brain cells to interpret it, is a comment that my neighbor to the east made when the neighborhood turned out to see the hill across the street fall down.

I mentioned to him that I was going to clear my hill up to the drainage flume in the hollow and he began insisting that HE owned the drainage flume...AND the hollow. This being Kentucky, and him being a neighbor, I didn't voice my opinion of his parentage and intellectual ability, but instead began mulling over his statement.

When I was done mulling, I pulled out my deed and had a look-see. Now, when I bought this place, I read over my deed and thought it looked a bit...informal...but this IS Kentucky, after all, so I figured it was all normal here. HAH!!

This is the description of my property on my deed (I've redacted some names to avoid giving too much away on the internet):

A tract of land lying on the (name of creek) beginning at a culvert under the (name of road) in a westerly direction; to (neighbor #1's name) property line to a marked stone in a southerly direction to (creek); to a marked stone in a westerly direction with property lines of (neighbors #1 & #2) to or about a large sycamore tree on the south bank of (creek); in a southerly direction with the (neighbor #3's)property following a old barbed wire fence to the top of (point name) in a south westerly direction to the top of (ridge name); in a north easterly direction to an outcrop of rock on (other ridge name) were as a hollow begins following a north direction separating (neighbor #4's father's name) and property of this deed; to (creek) to (neighbors #5 and #6's) property to the hollow on the north side of (creek); following hollow north to the beginning.

So I hied myself and a photocopy of said property description to someone who could tell me what all I had (Professor who teaches surveying at my college). And he said, you have a receipt. If you want more than that, you have to go down to the county court house records and back search all the deeds until you come to a deed for your property that has numbers, then you have to forward search each portion of the property that was sold to neighbors #1-6 until you have final numbers, THEN you need to have it professionally surveyed and corner markers put in...'cause if I go clearing property to plant a vineyard on and neighbors #1-6 get testy, they can take me to court.

Thus opens the Saga of the Hill. I'm busy with H&R Block/college/homeschooling until May, then planting/working on house/harvest until late August/September, so clearing the hill has been put off until I can spend next Fall/Winter researching my deed and paying for corner markers. I'm thinking I'm going to have to skip a year of college to get this done in a reasonable time frame.

Pray for me; I'm gonna need it.