This is actually really cool.

Thanks for posting it.

I knew a family that had this done. They were true heritage Americans who had mad money just from owning property that hand been handed down since Ohio was made a state.

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I should add that the family was big into higher education and they were all lawyers and judges. So they made their own money as well, but I'm sure having that family backing didn't hurt.

Nice, but too rich for my blood. Heated driveway? I'll have some Polaks rubbing sticks together. Still cheaper than electric in Germoney.

I was giving away some Yukon Gold spuds to protestors wanting Albertan secession when a man in a flannel cape whispered, ‘Potatoes should have topography.’

I chuckled, because that’s a sentence you ignore for your own safety. But he pulled out a crumpled napkin sketch, tiny mountains, little bear shapes, what looked like a gravy river, and said his driveway felt “emotionally flat.”

We stood there, silently judging the potatoes, until he explained that every time he backed out, he wanted to feel like he was escaping the wilderness, not a suburban cul-de-sac. Fair. Deeply unreasonable, but fair.

By the third potato, I was nodding. By the fifth, I was helping him label peaks. By the seventh, we’d agreed the bears should be “suggestive, not litigious.”