Good fences make good neighbors?

 I remember "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost.  The fence is serving as a line between two neighbors and they work together to maintain this joint benefit.  In that time period they were stone.  Most likely gathered each spring from the adjacent field making room for cultivation and crops.

 With progress became wire fences and no more lifting of rocks.  These were also serving as a property line but each farmer was responsible for only the right half of the line as facing the neighbors so they worked making and repairing by themselves.

 Today we need the line but because fields contain grain and not animals it can look much different.

Can you see the fence?

It is on software in the tractor cab the pink line shows GPS line between two farmers.  By the naked eye there is only a slight difference in color because the one on the right of tractor had time to dry for a day after tillage, the top 1/3 as a diagonal line. Most fences as we have known then are not needed and are being removed.  * The blue color is the path this tractor has made tilling the field.

Good "fences" still make good neighbors but it can be a pink line.

                                                                 Serving Together, Dean