Homestead or Hobby Farm

Posted on October 7th, 2006 By scott at 5:46 pm (All)

I’ve been admonished by Robinson for referring to our ‘place’ as a hobby farm. She finds it demeaning. Fine. Okay.

It’s a homestead. I looked it up on Webster’s and found the definition fits very well. Actually, it fits for any homeowner.

Homeowner. That’s an interesting word. I’m a homeowner but the servicer actually owns the home and will for many years to come. That, perhaps, is a word that doesn’t describe our status correctly. We don’t rent but we certainly don’t own the home. I think of a homeowner as someone with her house’s paper, like owning the title to your car.

We are carowners, though. We have the papers for our ‘01 CRV and ‘97 Jetta. Combined, they have 350,000 miles on them. Not quite as impressive as a 2006 SL-Class ‘Benz, is it? On the plus side, our site doesn’t suck like mbusa.com.

2 Comments

  1. Dena said,

    October 7, 2006 at 7:33 pm

    Congratulations on being car owners.

  2. ljrobinson said,

    October 7, 2006 at 11:04 pm

    From dictionary.com

    v. home·stead·ed, home·stead·ing, home·steads
    v. intr.

    To settle *and farm land*, especially under the Homestead Act.

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