A Real Lazy Dog Town???
Truly incredible that we found this real estate listing...
You guys are not going to believe this one! There is actually a Town for sale in New Mexico. If you read the article it is darn near everything we put here on our fictitious Lazy Dog Farm Town several years ago. You really can't make this stuff up. If we had the $11M to buy the town, we would do it in a hot second. Most everything about this town matches what we talk about here.
Town Information and Attractions
Located just off the highway is our wonderful Town. It is named after the original settlers that landed on our shores where the washed out bridge is. This is a good place to talk about.
Town Council.
All the residents of the Town are Council People. Council meetings are held every harvest moon or Saturdays whichever comes first and are held at the land fill parking lot.
Our Environmental Councilman owns the Pub and it has a great view of the land fill. The smoke at sunset is a beautiful grey-orange. If you aren't apt to sneezing you can tailgate at the parking lot. The glow lasts all night long. Our carrier pigeon training program doesn't work anymore because the wind blows the wrong way after the land fill caught on fire. Jerry blames Scooter. Henry's Cousin the Sheriff will kick you out at sun up because the trucks have to dump their loads. We have a new pay phone in the parking lot but it isn't wired up yet so go to the General Store to make a telephone call.
The Council passed a property tax levy on the farms along the highway that get rezoned commercial. It is a part of the community development plan. Jill and Betty's farm has a Farmers Market on the highway and they get a tax break because any private business on the property of its owner zoned as Agg is listed as public access.
Cranberry lake is our pride and joy. The whole town comes out for pot luck and games. The lake is spring fed from our aquifer. The town and farms get all their water from it. We call the water Sweet Nectar. Every season we have our town fair and the people bring to market whatever is in season. The zero-landfill cloth mill hosts a BBQ cookoff. Nancy has the best goat milk gravy in the county. She sells the gravy to over sixty grocery stores in the area. Harry sells a divine spiced fillet from his farm raised fish. Bill buys his fish poop and John's clover roots to feterlize his organic asparagus and garlic plot. About two hundred years ago the Bird family dug a mine thinking they would hit it rich. Instead they hit our aquifer. Now a days Micha grows mushrooms down there after the Council decided that it would be better to produce something than just to have the cave boarded up where it was a danger to our children. Micha plays the blues at the Pub on Tuesday nights.
The area's electric co-op has offered to buy the landfill, cap it, and use it's fuel cell technology to produce low emission electricity from the methane. The pub is mad because no one will want to sit outside and watch the sunset. It's ok though because Tom and Jenny's son has asthma and can't play down wind from the landfill. With the cheap clean energy Marty opened a self-propagating bamboo farm to make furniture that he sells all across the country. Edna's hemp farm makes the string at the cloth mill for the furniture and sells the hemp seed oil to the biodiesel plant next town over. The Old Lady in the hills used to make moonshine so the State wanted to arrest her. Now she makes the alcohol that we use to sanitize the Clinics instruments. BJ is one cool cat. He plays jazz and bluegrass at the Pub. He makes the most wonderful potpourri fragrance using the old ladies booze to distill the flowers and herbs.
All of the letters of the Fed like the EPA, USDA, FDA etc. love us because we are so easy to work with. The Fed gives us tax credits across the board.
Frank Wells Inc. came to town last summer and he seemed like a nice enough guy. He wants to put in wells to sell the spring water out west. The bottles will be shipped in from over seas. He said he will build a football stadium outside of town if we permit the wells. The aquafer is community property and benefits the entire area so the Council voted his business license down. It's ok though because with the cheap electricity and the town folk working together we built a nice community park next to the lake where everyone can play whatever sport they want to.
Jerry the Barber spends his spare time at the free Clinic. He was a Medic during the war. Fred thinks he is courting Stephanie. Taz is our handyman. Nobody likes him much but he is a wiz with the hammer and saw. He barters his services at the General Store because he isn't good with money. Now, Lisa is the Matriarch of the town, she lives on the other hill. Anytime we get slap happy silly she wants to smack some reality into us. Nobody likes her much either. Bedford owns the puppy mill. He doesn't mill puppies but he makes one mean pot roast. Bedford mills and freeze dries the towns grains, meat, flowers and other produce into emergency survival buckets. The buckets come from upstate using plant based plastics.
Our Cherokee Nation neighbors provide all the education around these parts for trade work, sustainable living, medicine, and agriculture. Their craft work is sold to the best galleries in NY and LA. The books they write are coveted world round for their wisdom. Crow taught us how to properly jerk our meat. Edna isn't sure about that last ingredient though. It comes from out of town. Larry Jr, Darryl and his other brother Darryl have the fancy free range animal farm. They grow grass fed critters like alpaca for yarn. They have the only no kill mink fir farm in the tri-state area. Doodles, the little boy, looks so cute shaving those minks.
On the way into town we had a Hobo glyph post to let the fellows know where they need to go for what they need. Bunny gives them a hemp and alpaca blanket from the mill that didn't make the quality cut and Snoot the town drunk gives them a meal from the Pub. Jerry will give them a haircut if they sweep up out back. We leased the post plat to the cellular telephone companies at half price if they power it from solar or from the landfill. We don't need that pay phone at the land fill parking lot anymore.
Scooter still says he didn't catch the landfill on fire...
About Our Micro Farm
Fishery
Prepaired Meat Like Products.........(Dogs Not Included)
Fishery
More like minnows, but hey they are still eatable I guess.
Blue Gill, Crappie, Shell Cracker
Fruits
Prepaired Meat Like Products.........(Dogs Not Included)
Fishery
Peaches
Plums
Prepaired Meat Like Products.........(Dogs Not Included)
Prepaired Meat Like Products.........(Dogs Not Included)
Prepaired Meat Like Products.........(Dogs Not Included)
Smoked meats, stews, chilies, Veggies. Cooking Sauces!