Beer Goggle Dreams

Oh hey! I just remembered that I figured out a solution to the Food Safety Bill for small growers!

The cap is $500k in sales right? Well that's not too hard for a small farm to hit in actuality so the FDA is going to be in everybody's noses.

But here's the solution - do the same thing large corporations sometimes do to avoid regulation. Break up into smaller corporations.

1) Subdivide the land between family members of adult age.

2) Incorporate each piece of land as a separate farming corporation.

3) Manage the finances of each farming corporation either through a common offsite accounting service (preferred) or on separate computers. Keep all monies separate, keep all paperwork separate, establish a common rental service for existing equipment that each corporation pays a rental fee to for continued use. (This rental service is also a separate parcel of land.)

4) Establish a rented farmstand that all farms can sell at for a fee.

It won't work for everybody but it will work for quite a few. And as long as the sales of each farm isn't above 500k the FDA will be unable to do anything without getting several legal proceedings underway.

How's them apples? ;-)

So...when you're stacking logs in the fireplace...

Make sure that they aren't going to roll out when they burn down.

The house is a bit smoke clouded but everything is okay. Well one of my fingers hurts a bit but no big deal there.

Of course part of the reason I had such trouble is that I finally got the hang of our damper and was able to heat up the fire propely. This unfortunately also heated up the fireplace tools that sit...next to the fireplace.

I had to use the poker which was hot and a prybar from the laundry room to put the log back in the fire. Looks like I'm going to have to make some fire tongs.

In other news...SNOW! It's been coming down all day and is still going. I'll likely go out and plow later but right now I just want to stay indoors. And I have the excuse that my daughter is home so that works for me. ;-)

As for Toradora! it's a slapstick high school romance anime that's actually pretty funny. I'm about a third of the way through it since I can't spend time studying out in the workshop due to MLK Jr. day and my daughter being home. Tomorrow things will be back to normal.

*throws another log on the fire*