How We Got Our Farm Name

It was just 5 or 6 years ago when mom saw the auction sign. She loves auctions, so we left our

suburban home and drove 5 miles along a majorly twisting road.  When we finally got there there

was people gathered all around, the auctioneer, we found out goes to our church. There was an old

lady who was dying so she was selling her farm into three different properties.  She had a nice brick

home which came with pond, a couple barns and lots of fencing. My mom walked up and got a

number, we drove down a little farther to a house which the old lady let these people stay in for free. 

It was gross, it was supposed to be part log cabin but it just looked like, well, a mess. It was infested

with mice, wasps, not to mention they smoked and forgot how to clean.  It came with a lot of land

which was untouched,  a pre-civil war tobacco barn, a sliver shed, a old garage, a shed and a sink

hole of a potato cellar. No fencing. Well, as luck would have it we got the part I thought was worth

the least amount of money the "log cabin" and the surrounding 60 acres.  Mom drove us home

beaming saying things like, "We are going to have to totally remodel that house!" and other things

that required work. This was going to be work, I thought then, I see now that is was..... 

An adventure, yeah, adventure.  We decided to name our farm Green Acres after the TV show about

 a city slicker couple moving to the country and knowing nothing.  Yep, that is us, except the couple

has three unruly girls.  That my friends, is how we got our farm name.