Where O where will our future farm be?

This is the big question: Where do we want to live to start our lives over again and create the farm of our dreams?
While we do love our home here in Rio Rancho and the parks and convenience, we have outgrown it and we are not happy with the claustrophobic feeling from all of the tract houses in our neighborhood.

We live in a "Ticky Tacky" house....but want to remove ourselves from living in a "Ticky Tacky World". A friend shared a cute, but meaningful song with me called: "Little Boxes" By folk singer Malvina Reynolds.

In the song she describes the little box houses of suburbia and the residents as "all just the same." She describes how everyone living in these houses all live the same monotonous life and how everything always ends up the same, just like the houses.

One day my family will be out of suburbia. One day soon our family will have our sustainable farm home and we will not live in a Ticky Tacky neighborhood anymore.

And similar in comparison to public schools raising rows and rows of all-the-same corn and our family raising unique, beautiful, free-flowing wildflowers, we will always strive to lead a different, off-the-beaten path lifestyle.

You can listen to the song about a "Ticky Tacky" lifestyle. Click and and scroll down to "Little Boxes" Song by Pete Seeger.


"LITTLE BOXES"
Little boxes on the hill side,
little boxes made of ticky tacky.
Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky,
and they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses all went to the university
Where they were put in boxes, little boxes, all the same.
And there's doctors and there's lawyers,
and there's business executives
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf course and drink their martini dry
And they all have pretty children and the children go to school
And the children go to summer camp and then to the university
Where they all get put in boxes and they all come out the same.

And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family
In boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

Words and music by Malvina Reynolds Copyright 1963 by Schroder Music Co.