Yeah, pedophilia is soooooo funny,

People reported it, its not just me

Nothing about your lifestyle smacks of 'grinding rural poverty' though & I can't imagine that the acquisition of a large property would move you into that demographic. If it did, what would be the point?

Why does there have to be a point? I am amused though that the acres under consideration number 100. A decidedly unimperial, loudly metric sort of number.

Whatever next?

Ha! There's actually a severance making the size something peculiar, 100 acres - 20 rods by 20 rods or thereabouts.

We are buying a farm, same size. (Flipping well hope it's not the same one!!)

Of all the clauses I would put in, one is to have an environmental survey done on the land, or get your seller to write a guarantee that the land is environmentally ok. Farmers have a habit of burying stuff.......some ok, some not so ok, and you don't wat to pick up a hefty bill to have "whatever" contamination removed at a later date, or dog forbid, some of your stock poisoned.

Have the septic system checked properly, have a REALLY good house inspection done, don't skimp on that, these old farmhouses can have lots of kinks and querks....again, some don't matter so much...ie a floor that is off the straight and narrow etc, but some...like a dirty great crack in the wall....that are a huge bill waiting to happen.

Again, get your house inspector to check out the barn....what may look sound, may have been "done up" for the sale and will fall down the minute you have paid for the place.

Hope you get what you want and enjoy farming.....what are you going to do?? Stock....crops.......nothing but just enjoy the place???

I take it you haven't tried rural living.

Barn repairs. Fence repairs. Machinery repairs. Deworming the dodgy looking horse left by the previous occupants. Relocation of the laundry room. Installation of propane so as to power a gas stove. Replacement of woodstove taken by the previous occupants. Snow clearance. Installation of proper power line to barn. Replacement of barn hydrant. Presumably rushing back to the old place to fetch animals that have followed their homing instincts.

This after somehow moving the 318 small squares and four cords of logs from the current place.

Your point about country people and their tendency to bury toxic waste all over the place is well taken. Clauses we're mulling include:

- subject to home inspection (though I find inspectors generally a bit crap)
- subject to structural engineer's inspection of barn
- septic to be located, lidded and pumped
- subject to financing and sale of old place
- all buildings to be in "broom swept" condition (would waive this for money)
- listed chattels to remain (list to include specific machines and goats)


In what part of Canada are you thinking of acquiring your purgatory?

Thats the first week taken care of, what will you do after that?

Repeat, ad nauseam, in my experience.

Sorry R I C H, this place is making you ill?????

Sick to the stomach.

Thanks for the concern

In no way am i condoning paedophilia, it's vile. I did find the joke quite funny though. Yes the joke may have been innapropriate but, in my mind, no more innapropriate as a Hitler smiley face for an avatar.

All in my opinion of course as i understand my boundaries vary from other peoples.

Sort of in between Barrie and Orrilia. Nice area. Hopefully lots of clients for me....dog grooming. And will make hay or haylage and generally be a slave to the place, pretty much the same as here really, but with OH at home more.....(he is not going back to dentistry), so will hopefully be making me lots of nice trails to ride through, walk dogs through.....besides doing whatever it is he will find to do!!

No illusions that it will not be hard, and snowy and cold in winter, I like cutting wood and chopping logs, always find it sort of calming....however, who knows what whole days of that will do to that when fingers are falling off with cold and feet are "somewhere" down there.

Dunno what the pain of log chopping feels like as we get ours off a truck. I do know the agony of haying though, that's an expensive form of masochism.

What do they use to tie bales with? In the UK binder twine is an evil that ruins hands in a half hour of lifting bales...and wreck yer nails I was in Texas and the small bales there were tied with a kind of wire... would need those gloves they wear in slaughterhouses to cart those about!!

Small squares, the typical format for horse hay, are tied with a nylon twine. Gloves are needed for moving more than a couple of them at a time. Round bales are held together with mesh and sometimes placed in plastic bags. The neighbour has a machine for bagging them though I've also seen people doing it by hand.