MIKE CHECK!
Any station this net, any station this net, this is SV06 radio check, over.
tap tap... this thing on?
Not really sure where we left off. Last year has been a beeeeeyotch. But it all worked out. To bring you up to speed, last year around this time we decided it was time to find a place of our own to farm on. We started looking in the Western New York (WNY) region and the pickins were pretty slim. It seemed you had to know somebody who knew somebody to even find a place suitable for Ag use that was for sale or about to be for sale. We realized that the chance of our finding a place in WNY whilst still living in Pittsburgh was not the greatest so we decided to put our house up for sale and move up here and rent a place. As taught in Airborne School, when the light turns green, you don't think about it, you just step boldly out that door and execute. The "For Sale" sign going up in our yard was the green light.
We secured a place to rent in the Buffalo area and continued our search for a place to farm. We thought we had located a sweet deal on a 95 acre place between Rochester and Buffalo but that didn't work out. We mentioned our situation to some Farmer Vet friends and they said they knew of some Amish places for sale in the counties south of Buffalo. I liked the first place we saw, we put in an offer, and then the hard part began. I'll not go into it in detail here as doing so would result in my having to seek additional intensive therapy and ain't no one got time for that. Long story short, 9 months from having a signed purchase agreement with the seller, we finally closed on our new place on 29 August 2013. It's a 95 acre former Amish dairy farm. It was cut out of a larger parcel and the buildings were all built in 2005. It's sturdy, large, and basic. Perfect for the Epicness we have planned for the region.
We don't have electricity, water, septic, internet, tv, heat, or any other of that sissified stuff; but we're working on it. We'll keep you posted as we gain functionality.
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