You really should see my gulley. If all of the people went away for maybe 2 years, then my gulley would be full of green, growing things, mostly non-native invasive camphor trees and kudzu and some heart-shaped vine that shall remain nameless.

It's a constant struggle against the growing things so that there is room in the gulley for the people.

I think the kudzu would be over the house in just one unchallenged summer, at least over one end of the house.

I worry a lot about being overcome by aggressive plants. What would that kind of death entail? Starvation probably, since it doesn't get cold enough here to freeze to death (in fact, freezing temps at all are a once-a-year event. Maybe a tree would fall on me before I starved. Oh my....