Well, today’s the day that we go back and finalize the application for the mortgage. Jessy and I have been up all night getting our 2010 taxes ready so that we can bring in a copy of that for the application. We actually made 10 thousand dollars more than 2009, and the banker liked the 2009 taxes just fine as income, so 2010 will be a little more icing on the income cake of proof! (gg) (Does that make sense? Income Cake of Proof??? Oh my!)

However, I was laying in bed last night thinking, plotting and planning and then I thought. Oh My Gosh. What if we are tooo close to the downtown area and that the property is zoned NO LIVESTOCK…. OH MY GOSH. Sure there are barns and coops and all on the property, but you never know how the zoning might have changed or who knows!

So this morning, I got on the phone. I started to make phone calls. And in the true Green Acres sort of small village situation, I had to make about 9 phone calls to finally reach someone that knew anything. You see, our little villlage was de-incorperated back in 2007 or 2008. I guess they decided it was tooo much work to rule themselves and they turned it over to the township. Well, there are only 293 people in the village, as of the last census. And I guess they just decided it was time to let someone else rule them.

I finally got ahold of one of the village trustees and he turned out to be the nicest sweet sounding man on the phone. Just a really neat fellow. We talked for quite awhile and he said that our little farm used to be one of the NICEST properties around. With gardens and vineyards and orchard and animals and horses, he said that the family lived there forever, and they really took great care of the place. He said he was sure that the girls and I would do the same…. (after all I had told him all about the moby and our produce haul and all that… gee, was I babbling? Probably. HAHA) And the best thing? He said the house was rented out as late as late last summer. That’s fantastic! It means that it’s habitable, and that there was at least water and heat and electricity and all those things. That should really help with the appraisal.

Well, today is going to be a long day of waiting until 3 PM… we need everyone’s good wishes and thoughts and prayers… I’m telling you all, that this adventure is one with a whole lot of people pulling for it to succeed. It’s SO wonderful all the good vibes and positive energy, this HAS to happen!!! It’s going to happen!!!

And thanks for all the name suggestions… keep them a-coming!!! We like quite a few and have been thinking on our own as well, trying things out. You see, we want the perfect name. It has to be something that is easy enough for people to say and remember…. (so a couple of Jessy’s really wacky Celtic Welsh names might be hard to use….) and it would be GREAT if it had some sort of meaning to us…. Gypsy Croft? Moby Hollar? and lastly, since we plan to do a lot of marketing/product/selling of some of our things (livestock breeding, veggies, flowers, herbs, photography) it would be great if it had a sort of well, marketable sound to it. Like, even though I LOVE these names…. Worththewait Farm…. Almosta Farm…. Holenwall Farm…. they aren’t exactly the best for promoting a serious venture.

(Sorry, Jeff…. he did have a very funny one… Almost Indiana Farm…. hahahaha)

Right now, we’re sort of torn between something to do with the rock and mineral business + the word Croft… (Stonecroft… Granitecroft, Ambercroft… since it’s the rocks and all that really are paying for the place… OR something with a slight bluegrass music taint… and our favorite right now is Shady Grove. (A very popular old song from the back mountains with a lot of Irish and Scotts tradition… and most of the livestock we’re interested in ARE old heritage breeds from the British Isles…..)

Sigh. That’s all we know at the moment!!! We’ll keep in touch!!!!