I spent some time just driving around yesterday and I came across some handmade signs that said land for sale with someone's name and number. I saw them in a couple of different places - on really lovely dirt roads. Steve had an appointment with the guy today and went and looked at land while I took a quilting class in Hudson. How luxurious to be able to have scissors, pins and a hot iron out without having to worry about a two year old! The class only consisted of myself and an older woman - I'll say her name was Doris. It was so nice to sit around sewing with other women. We spent an awful lot of time admiring the quilts of the woman who owned the store, grilling her about how she did things and also just chatting. I mentioned that we were looking for land and they had all kinds of advice about getting tax exemptions for agriculture. Doris' husband is a farmer - they rent all of the land that he farms. When Steve came to pick me up he was very excited and said that we could definitely get some great property from this guy and that he would finance it (at 12%! ouch). Doris asked who the guy was and when Steve told her his name Doris twitched. She said "I'm just going to tell you this - keep your knees together". We were laughing so hard - imagine your grandmother saying that. Some of the land that Doris and her husband rent is owned by this guy and I guess they've had some problems.