My Neighbors Dug A Two-Acre Lake On My Land While I Was Out Of State—Then Told Me Their Contractor Said It Was Theirs, And That Was The Day I Learned How Expensive Arrogance Can Be

prepared to hear.

“There shouldn’t be a permit for construction there.”

I looked toward the lake again.

The sunlight was still flashing blue across the water.

But suddenly it didn’t look beautiful anymore.

It looked like evidence.

And I knew then that whoever had dug that lake hadn’t simply made a mistake.

They had made a decision.

And they had assumed I wouldn’t be there to stop them.

They were wrong.
The Lesson My Grandfather Left Me

Standing there beside that unauthorized lake, I finally understood something my grandfather had