Rust Farm For Sale

For all you city folk dreaming of a lifestyle in the GNC, here is your chance to purchase an operating rust farm in beautiful West Kill, in the heart of the Catskill Mountains. 

Nestled between the fast-growing, quaint cities of Lexington and Shandaken on Route 42, this 40-acre farm features more than four dozen vehicles, farm implements and corrugated tin rusting away in the bright sunshine.  Conditions are perfect here for an abundant crop of fresh, fragrant rust year after year.

The prize possessions of the farm are several 1950s Ford pick-up trucks (pictured below), that have been award-winning rust producers for the past several decades.  The mushrooms growing under them are rich in iron, from the rust dripping onto the soil, so they will be delicious added to your salad of local leafy vegetables, sun-ripened tomatoes and  flavorful herbs. 

Given the state of the world economy, the price of rust will only go up: since fewer metal goods are being produced now, there will be less rust available when it is needed ten or twenty years from now.  Your retirement income is growing before your eyes!  

Sit on the front porch of your classic, original 1880's farm house and listen to the silent hum of oxidation working for you.   Leave the stress of city life behind!  

For more information about owning your own genuine GNC Rust Farm, please contact:

Meshuga Rust Farm, Route 42, West Kill, NY 12492. 
(We have no email, fax or internet service.)  No brokers.  
Serious Inquiries Only.  Pets OK.

My mobile weather apps...

...were all over last night's Rolling Thunder performance.  They issued an alert to take the blue folding chairs off the front deck, showed the storm track in pretty, dynamic colors, pointed out that I had left the weed-whacker outside, and provided other technical information in case I wanted to go fishing as the storm peaked.  With map app, I zoomed in and out on the intensity bands and then added layers of landmarks.  Radar app showed a line of rough phenomena roughly from Phoenicia to West Kill, eight miles or so West of Hunter.  Bug app predicted the storm to pass over Rt 214 at 11:09p.  It was 11:09p (according to clock app) when it did.  The frequent lightening introduced more theatrics, metrics and statistics - the app reported the number of lightening strikes in real-time.  I was so busy, I didn't check the Earthquake app!


This is not an endorsement of smartphone technology, though I must say,  the same device was my flashlight during the short power outage, and I listened Beethoven on it  as the storm rattled and echoed through Stony Clove.  I realized this morning, when the atmosphere is more hospitable, that probably I shouldn't have been using it outdoors, twirling my key chain and listening to No.5 through wireless headphones.




PS - Happy Birthday to my brother Larry!