Laughing Thyme Farm: Living the Dream

We’ve had many interesting and strange conversations at the supper table trying to figure out what we should call our farm.  There have been a lot of hilarious and out-landish suggestions resulting in a lot of laughter. 

Different suggestions:

Darn Deer Farm- because of the “darn deer” that kept eating our bean and destroyed our fruit trees)

Rocky Hill Farm- because the hill is rocky

Wild Oats Farm- (Aggie’s idea)

Daffodil Hill Farm- ruled out because the daffodils are only here for a short period of time

Grassy Hill Farm- because our hill is grassy

Rocky Spring Farm- Eric came up with this one.  We have a spring and we have rocks, but not in the same place 

Nothing seemed right.  However, the family was having a conversation about love the other day.  Somehow Aggie got on the track of holidays too.  Then she started talking about the holiday where people give the people that are their friends love stuff….”Laughing Times Day”.  We all thought this was hilarious.  Aggie was half-way embarassed and half-way tickled about the reaction. 

So while talking casually to Eric on the couch one evening, I said I wanted it to be something that was a part of our family….who we are and such.  We had tried to come up with ideas related to the environment here, but to no avail.  I jokingly said “Laughing Time Farm.”  As I said it though, it had a nice ring to it.  Then Eric suggested that maybe we could spell it “thyme” instead of “time”, as we intend to have quite a large herb garden here.  (I’m wanting to get into herbal medicine, rather than the chemical junk.)  Then it seemed like an even-more plausible name. 

At first when we suggested it to Aggie she was embarassed, but once again she had that sort-of pleased look on her face.  Now she doesn’t seem to mind so much.  I also wanted to ruminate on the name awhile and see if it didn’t wear off on me.  But I still like it because of it’s connection with family….we have a lot of good times with our large family.  We laughed a lot trying to come up with a name.  Laughing Thyme Farm seems to suit fairly well.