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Dock Tales Part 18 •   View SeriesOne day, walking along the lakefront of my newly purchased wooded acres on North Carolina’s Lake James, I became annoyed discovering that one of my neighbors was chopping down my trees.

Dock Tales Part 17 •  View SeriesMy mom thought it’d be good for me to join Boy Scouts and dropped me off at a troop meeting one night.

Dock Tales Part 16 •  View Series Now that we could park and walk to our dock, it was time to invest in landscaping.

Dock Tales Part 15 • View SeriesAfter two years of building the driveway, erecting the shed, planting trees, cleaning debris and positioning a used dock, I looked forward to inviting friends over.

Dock Tales Part 13 • View seriesI was at first enchanted by English Ivy that covered my forest.

Dock Tales Part 14 • View Series When I first walked the 800 feet of Lake James shoreline I was about to buy in the one-day sale, I kept kicking up all kinds of broken bottles, empty gas containers and other trash left by previous visitors.

Dock Tales Part 12 • View seriesWith the dock and access to it completed, it was time to share it with family.

Dock Tales, Part 11 When Bennick Grading finished the small gravel car path to a flat spot above my dock, I knew what I needed to do next: buy a bunch of stuff – primarily tents, floats and landscaping tools.

When our dock was ready, my next challenge was developing access.