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Backpaddock

The backpaddock here at HCE, glancing southeast (2004)

the back paddock here at HCE

The degree of bounty surrounding us here at HCE is such that owning a shed is mere afterthought in the appointments of our habitation, as can be seen by its condition at the far end of this photograph of the back paddock.

Nevertheless, the shed, backup plan of a building in extremis, is firmly claimed for the human domain here. Note the absence of any pig whatsoever in the shed, the sure exclusionary principle of the Barry Family definition of a home quite evidently applied in this instant.

Housed in the shed instead are odd remnant bricks, blocks, boards, leftover liquids of questionable chemistry in their original containers, tools of rusting metal and softening wood, under the declivity of a slumped roof in the sequestering shade of the southeast corner of the paddock.

There is the potential for, if no indication of, human intervention there among those tools and things in pursuit of some aim around the yard, perhaps.

On the shed roof, a small elevated bog grows, its grassy verge there visible in the view of it above.