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<blockquote data-quote="Hippie Rancher" data-source="post: 239367" data-attributes="member: 4203"><p>That remiinds me of one of my real Hippie Ranch type stories. This is a family operation and we are a typical ,slightly disfunctional family that has a lot of trouble doing planning or talking about money or god-forbid allowing "strangers" to know anything about our business. About 15 years ago after Grampa died, we had to break down and finally talk about some stuff. Had a facilitator help guide the conversation and do some touchy feely stuff and it was really good - got a lot of things out in the open and dealt with, made some plans - including looking at other ways to generate income off the place (this is when prices were in 40 cent range - early 90's LOW cycle or thereabouts). So we as a family finally did some "Happy Hippy Horsesh*t" work as someone I know calls it. The VERY next day this guy drives up to the house and wants to start buying some boulders off the place for landscaping and such. That is some kind of karma. Still gives me the shivers. He was here for about two years and pretty much SAVED us.</p><p></p><p>As a humorous aside, this area is known for its huge granite boulders and tourists are always stopping to take pictures - When Grampa would come across these types and they would gush about the rocks he would either make a joke about the rain making them swell or offer to sell them...If he could have only been around to see the day someone actually wanted to buy a bunch of (to an old cowman) useless rocks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hippie Rancher, post: 239367, member: 4203"] That remiinds me of one of my real Hippie Ranch type stories. This is a family operation and we are a typical ,slightly disfunctional family that has a lot of trouble doing planning or talking about money or god-forbid allowing "strangers" to know anything about our business. About 15 years ago after Grampa died, we had to break down and finally talk about some stuff. Had a facilitator help guide the conversation and do some touchy feely stuff and it was really good - got a lot of things out in the open and dealt with, made some plans - including looking at other ways to generate income off the place (this is when prices were in 40 cent range - early 90's LOW cycle or thereabouts). So we as a family finally did some "Happy Hippy Horsesh*t" work as someone I know calls it. The VERY next day this guy drives up to the house and wants to start buying some boulders off the place for landscaping and such. That is some kind of karma. Still gives me the shivers. He was here for about two years and pretty much SAVED us. As a humorous aside, this area is known for its huge granite boulders and tourists are always stopping to take pictures - When Grampa would come across these types and they would gush about the rocks he would either make a joke about the rain making them swell or offer to sell them...If he could have only been around to see the day someone actually wanted to buy a bunch of (to an old cowman) useless rocks. [/QUOTE]
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