Just having read the book, "The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" I would like to put in a bid for a specialization of the resort-ing them to include Wiccan and other pagan and pagan-like practices. We need not necessarily believe deeply in the background of a religion to get into the spirit of an Earth-based orgiastic style of event planning. We provide the circles of stone and cool lights, they provide the ambiance and enthusiasm for strange behavior. 'Course we enjoy strange behavior too, so it's not that big of a stretch. Or at least I do.

Anyway... let's be like Linus and have faith. The Great Pumpkin will arise, but only in the most sincere pumpkin patch.

And hey, we're good at stuff. Green is the new black, and we have a lot of green...

though sadly not a lot of green-backs which is perhaps a limiting factor. Does any one out there have really open-minded mortgage broker? I would love to talk to someone who could tell us what the options are. Unless of course, we (i.e. someone else smarter than me) can dream up a business plan, get investors, and have the Farm Collective, LLC buy the property. I do have a great small business attorney down there in Richmond who is a friend of the family. Sadly, my own pitiful earnings will not go all that far even in The Land of Ash, i.e. Ashland, VA. I would however be willing to mortgage my ass to the hilt if it gave myself and all y'all collective a chance to try something a little different. I suspect we all feel pretty much like that, though also layered with responsibilities in other directions.

A final note: perhaps others have noticed that when you enter "The Farm Collective", Google returns on the first links to sites on the Ant Farm, The Farm of 60's fame and Soviet Russian agricultural servitude/intense poverty. The Ant Farm was a collective of artists and architects who thought it was cool to build weird stuff, including Cadillac Ranch in Texas. The Farm was a psychadelia-infused commune that became huge, had satellite branches throughout the country, broke up many marriages and warped many children. Soviet agricultural society, who can begin to describe. Though all of these models are attractive as lifestyle options, I guess it could be observed that with a project that starts out with such a heavy moniker we might ought to be careful about letting the momentum of the project carry it instead of we all carrying it forward in a mutually beneficial, individually rewarding directions. Plan Ted, plan. I'll call the banker.