There has been a leaning windmill tower on our place since 2013.  Somebody (not me) hit it with a plow that summer.  It has been leaning a bit more every year.  Duke and I were going to set an anchor and hold it into place but we didn’t get around to it.  Just never was that big of a priority.  Now, it has been taken down.  We no longer have the leaning tower.

Only about 50 yards southeast of that windmill tower, there has been a dead spot in the ground all summer.  The ground was really soft in that spot.  I knew that there was an old saltwater disposal line that run through that field, so I didn’t think much of it.  However, on Sunday morning, I was on a tractor moving round bales out of the field.  As I passed this dead spot, on the down wind side, I smelled gas–as in natural gas.  Sure enough, this spot was right in line with 3 different fence post risers that mark a gas line.  There is a T in the pipeline at that point.  I called the 1-888 # on the risers.  Sure enough, there is now a marker from the pipeline company marking the leak.